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1. Mythographical Collections: Two Texts by Hyginus 1. Mythographical Collections: Two Texts by Hyginus
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2. Scholia to Germanicus 2. Scholia to Germanicus
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3. Exegesis on Poetic Works 3. Exegesis on Poetic Works
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3.1. The Commentary Tradition on Vergil’s Works 3.1. The Commentary Tradition on Vergil’s Works
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3.2 The Scholia to Statius’s Thebaid 3.2 The Scholia to Statius’s Thebaid
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3.3 The Ovidian Narrationes 3.3 The Ovidian Narrationes
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3.4 The Ibis and Its Scholia 3.4 The Ibis and Its Scholia
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4. Conclusion 4. Conclusion
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Further Reading Further Reading
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References References
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5 Mythography in Latin
Get accessR. Scott Smith is Professor of Classics at the University of New Hampshire, where he has taught since 2000. His major field of study is ancient myth and mythography, with special focus on the intersection of mythography, space, and geography. He is currently co-director of a digital database and map of Greek myth, MANTO: https://manto.unh.edu. In addition, he is interested in how mythography operates in scholia and commentaries and is undertaking a student-supported project to translate mythographical narratives in the Homeric scholia. He also produces the podcast, The Greek Myth Files.
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Published:20 October 2022
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Abstract
This chapter provides a survey of the various ways that Greek mythographical information was transmitted in Latin. The first section offers an overview of the surviving collections devoted almost entirely to mythographical material, the Fabulae and the second book of De Astronomia, both attributed to someone named Hyginus, as well as the collection of mostly star myths embedded in the so-called Germanicus scholia. The second half of the chapter provides a review of the mythographical material found in the surviving exegetical traditions for major Roman poets, Vergil, Statius, and the Ovidian Narrationes, all of which was transmitted in Latin to match the target text of study.
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