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1. The Paradoxographer and His Sources: Christian Jacob 1. The Paradoxographer and His Sources: Christian Jacob
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2. Myths in Paradoxographical Catalogues 2. Myths in Paradoxographical Catalogues
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3. Myths as Explanations of Extraordinary Phenomena 3. Myths as Explanations of Extraordinary Phenomena
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4. Myths as Parallel Examples of Paradoxa 4. Myths as Parallel Examples of Paradoxa
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29 Mythography and Paradoxography
Get accessIrene Pajón Leyra (Madrid, 1977) is assistant professor of Greek at the University of Seville. She has studied the Greek paradoxographic literature for her PhD, which is the topic of her book Entre ciencia y maravilla: El género literario de la paradoxografía griega (Zaragoza, 2011). Her fields of interest also include ancient Greek geography, history of Greek zoology, and papyrology. She has been a researcher at the universities of Oxford and Nice and at the Spanish High Council of Research.
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Published:20 October 2022
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Abstract
Paradoxography is, strictly speaking, a branch of historiographic literature that deals with facts. That is, in principle, its contents, as strange as they can appear to the reader, can be verified by autopsy. For this reason, mythographical contents are a minority in the works of the paradoxographers, which are instead interested in natural phenomena and barbarian customs. Indeed, myths are rarely the core of the anecdotes they collect. Nevertheless, myths sometimes appear as explanations of the strange phenomena in the paradoxographical lists. In these cases, the collected items somehow enter into the field of miracles. On other occasions, however, myths appear as parallel examples of other similar anecdotes of a historiographical nature. In these cases, a sort of “Euhemeristical” intention can be perceived, which turns myths from stories of supernatural facts into stories rather associated to exotic and far-away places.
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