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1. Evidence for the Mythographus Homericus: Papyri and Scholia 1. Evidence for the Mythographus Homericus: Papyri and Scholia
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2. The Nature of the Mythographus Homericus: Exegesis and Mythography 2. The Nature of the Mythographus Homericus: Exegesis and Mythography
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3. The Problem of Sources 3. The Problem of Sources
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4. Mythical Versions 4. Mythical Versions
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5. Conclusion 5. Conclusion
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Further Reading Further Reading
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16 The Mythographus Homericus
Get accessJoan Pagès is Lecturer in Greek Philology at the Universitat Autonòma de Barcelona. He has published several articles and chapters of books on Greek mythography, myth, religion and Literature. In collaboration with Nereida Villagra he has recently published the collective volume Myths on the Margins of Homer for Trends in Classics (De Gruyter). He is currently preparing (with Nereida Villagra) an edition and commentary of the Mythographus Homericus.
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Published:20 October 2022
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Abstract
Mythographus Homericus (MH) is a faute de mieux denomination for a now lost handbook of mythology from the Imperial period containing a collection of historiae fabulares, that is, summaries of myths, under Homeric lemmata. Fragments on papyri from the 1st century onward demonstrate the existence of the MH. Even though this work has not been preserved as such in medieval manuscripts, many historiae presumably derived from it survives as a substantial part of the minor scholia to the Iliad and the Odyssey, the so-called D-scholia and V-scholia respectively. The MH as we know it today was a hybrid work, a hypomnema or commentary on Homer based on abstracts of mythical narratives that could be considered a handbook of mythology as well. The reasons for the gathering of all this material as Homeric scholarship are not easy to elucidate: in some cases, they enable a better understanding of the Homeric context, but they are very often a sort of glossae explaining characters, epithets, place names, aetia and foundations.
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