Greek mythology is known to us from various artistic and literary
sources. Of the latter, the poetic sources (such as Homer and
tragedy) are familiar to many readers, but the prose sources are
much less so. Early Greek Mythography: Volume 2 is a detailed
commentary on the texts of Early GreekMythography: Volume 1, which
provided a critical edition of the twenty-nine authors of this
genre of Greek prose from the late sixth to the early fourth
centuries BC.
After a general introduction, this volume offers in its first part
a mythological commentary on the texts, arranged according to the
major topics of Greek mythology (the Trojan Cycle, Herakles, the
Argonauts, etc.). The aim is to recover, so far as possible, what
each writer said about the stories, with full consideration of
their historical context and significance for Greek literature,
mythology, and religion. The synoptic, topic-by-topic approach
allows all the fragments pertinent to any given myth to be treated
together, so that one can more easily identify variants and trends,
and plot the history of the myth. The second part of the volume is
a philological commentary on the separate authors, discussing their
life, works, and contribution to the genre, as well as textual
problems and non-mythological questions raised by individual
fragments.
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