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Agenorid Myth in the >Bibliotheca< of Pseudo-Apollodorus - A Philological Commentary of Bibl. III.1-56 and a Study into the Composition and Organization of the Handbook (Hardcover)
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Agenorid Myth in the >Bibliotheca< of Pseudo-Apollodorus - A Philological Commentary of Bibl. III.1-56 and a Study into the Composition and Organization of the Handbook (Hardcover)
Series: Beitrage zur Altertumskunde
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The Bibliotheca of Pseudo-Apollodorus, perhaps the best-known
mythographic text, stands out for its comprehensive aim and state
of preservation. The handbook has regularly been disregarded as a
repository of 'standard' myths or as a primary witness to archaic
stories, a reductive view at once underestimating and romanticizing
the merits of the Bibliotheca. This monograph unlocks the
Bibliotheca as a literary work in its own right by offering the
first systematic commentary on an essential selection, the Cretan
and Theban myths in Bibl. III.1-56, and by presenting an in-depth
analysis of the text. In so doing, this volume closes a gap in
current research, from which a philological commentary is entirely
missing. The main part of the study focuses on various aspects of
composition and organization by addressing structuring principles,
narratorial interventions, and the author's method and sources. It
lays to rest persistent misconceptions about the representative
character of the Bibliotheca's myths, the author's merits, and his
source use, all of which have divided the scholarship to this date.
In addition, it provides an update on the author, date, purpose and
readership, text history, and book division of the Bibliotheca.
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