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Host or Parasite? - Mythographers and their Contemporaries in the Classical and Hellenistic Periods (Hardcover)
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Host or Parasite? - Mythographers and their Contemporaries in the Classical and Hellenistic Periods (Hardcover)
Series: Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes
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Building upon the explosion of recent work on mythography,
contributions to this volume direct attention to less frequently
explored questions of how ancient poets, historians, and
philosophers themselves adopted and adapted the work of
mythographers. Study of the way that mythographers and their
contemporaries take on positions of, alternately, "host" or
"parasite" in relation to the other exposes the richness
mythographic practice and the roles that mythographers played in
the evolving Greco-Roman discourse of myth. From, among others, the
seeds of mythographic discourse in Pindar and Plato, to the
mythography of the Peripatics, the in-between mythography of
Diodorus Siculus, and the "mythographic topography" of Pausanias,
this volume invites a reappraisal of the role that mythography
played at every stage of Greek thought about myth. Through
contributions that explore both mythographers' distinctive style of
studying myth to other contributions that focus primarily on the
how and why of non-mythographers' use of mythographic techniques,
what emerges is a picture of mythography that broadens our
conception of mythography while at the same time inviting scholars
to seek out more such echoes of mythographic discourse in the work
of poets, historians, philosophers at large.
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