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1. Author and Audience 1. Author and Audience
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2. The Contents and Organization of the Bibliotheca 2. The Contents and Organization of the Bibliotheca
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4. The Text and Its Transmission 4. The Text and Its Transmission
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5. Sources 5. Sources
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6. Conclusion 6. Conclusion
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Further Reading Further Reading
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9 Apollodorus the Mythographer, Bibliotheca
Get accessStephen M. Trzaskoma is currently Dean of the College of Arts & Letters at California State University Los Angeles. Formerly, he served as Professor of Classics and Director of the Center for the Humanities at the University of New Hampshire. His two primary research areas are Greek prose fiction and ancient mythography, and he has published numerous studies in these areas, as well as translated key primary sources.
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Published:20 October 2022
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Abstract
This chapter treats Apollodorus the Mythographer (regularly referred to as Ps.-Apollodorus), the probably 1st-century ce writer who produced the Bibliotheca (Library), the most complete—although not perfectly so—and finest work of systematizing mythographer to survive from antiquity. A summary account is provided of our knowledge of the otherwise unknown author, evidence for his date, the nature of his work, his literary and intellectual ambitions, and the nature of the narrative, which gives a broad overview of Greek myth arranged chronologically from primordial times to the generation after the Trojan War. Attention is given as well to the question of Apollodorus’s sources, which has dominated modern scholarship. An account of the state of the text and how it was passed down is sketched.
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