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    Aetia (Callimachus)122
    Alexander the Great, analysis of historiography438
    allegoresis and allegory
      and depicting myth190
      and Jewish and Christian exegesis196
      in Survey of the Traditions of Greek Theology171–72
    Allegories of the Iliad (Tzetzes)555
    Allegories of the Odyssey (Tzetzes)555
    Amazons, names in Posthomerica360
    Annaeus Cornutus, Survey of the Traditions of Greek Theology170–75
    Arcadia (Sannazaro)584
    Argonauts (Dionysius Scytobrachion)320
    Arthurian legends, and medieval western mythography574
    astromythic program, catasterization and the369–72
    astronomical data, catasterismic myths and373–75
    Augustan period320
    Callimachus of Cyrene122
    Casa di Giasone (House of Jason)496–97
    Catalogue of Ships349
    Catalogue of Women18
    charter myths430
    Chaucer, Geoffrey583
    chorography, mythography, and history444–45
    chronological survey, from early prose to medieval Europe319–22
    chronology, and origins of mythography as a genre45–46
    Chrysippus, and Stoic allegoresis334–35
    City of God (Augustine of Hippo)537–38
    Cleanthes, and Stoic allegoresis334
    composition, and mythography under the rhetor423–24
    confirmation, and mythography under the rhetor422–23
    Conti, Natale588
    Cornutus
      Survey of the Traditions of Greek Theology170–75
    Crates, and Stoic allegoresis335
    Cure for Hellenic Maladies, A (Theodoret of Cyr)538
    Daniel of Winchester569
    De Deis Gentium Historia (Giraldi)586–87
    De Fluviis et Montibus360
    Demeter (Philitas)119
    Diegeseis (Conon)320
    Dionysiaca (Nonnus of Panopolis)538, 553
    Dionysius Scytobrachion320
    documentation and sources, and imperial mythography80–82
    doublets, in Hyginus’s Fabulae203
    epic saga, weaving mythography into124–27
    erudition, and imperial mythography88–90
    Ethnica (Stephanus of Byzantium)360
    etiologies, in the Greek and Latin world356–58
    Euhemerus and Euhemerism
    Euripides
    mythographical impulses in prologues301–3
    Eustathius of Thessalonica556
    exegesis
      in Survey of the Traditions of Greek Theology172
    Exhortation to the Greeks (Clement of Alexandria)533–34
    extra-institutional memory, and orgins of mythography as a genre42–49
    family traditions, and origins of mythography47–49
    Fasti (Ovid)378
    foundation stories, local traditions and445–46
    glosses, and early Greek poetry21–26
    Greek sources, vs. Roman sources203–5
    Gregory of Nazianzus537
    Hecateus of Miletus33, 43
    Hellanicus of Lesbos51
    Heracles
      geography and supraregional traditions447
    Herodotus, and origins of mythography31–32
    Hesiod, genealogies in18
    Histories (Pherecydes of Athens)33–34
    House of Jason (Casa di Giasone)496–97
    Hymn to Aphrodite, etymological analysis of24
    hypotheses, and study and reading of tragedy306–7
    imperial mythography78
      and change in world’s dimensions79
      and imperial Greek mythography78–80
      imperial period, and rationalization320–21
      increased sources and documentation80–82
      and Palatinus Graecus82
      secondary literature and commentary83–84
    interpretive methods, in Pausanias’s Description of Greece291–93
    intertextuality, and origins of mythography as a genre41
    Ion (Euripides)353
    Iphigenia among the Taurians301–2
    Labours of Heracles (Pediasimos)557
    Latin commentary tradition, and rationalization322
    lemmata, definition and use of239
    Libyan Stories (Dionysius Scytobrachion)320
    literacy, and mythography in education412–14
    localism, and origins of mythography42–49
    logos, and origins of mythography467–68
    Minotaur, as case study in rationalization and historicization322–29
    Montanari, Franco218
    mystical knowledge, preserving on papyri232–33
    myth, and origins of mythography34–35
    mythic variants, and Ovidian mythography267–68
    mythography
    Mythologies (Fulgentius the Mythographer)539–41
    names, etymological analysis of21–26
    narration, and mythography under the rhetor420–21
    Odyssey (Homer)
      etymological analysis of23
    On Greek Literature (Basil the Great)548
    On the Agreement between Orpheus, Pythagoras, Plato, and the Chaldean Oracles (Proclus & Syrianus)341–42
    On the Error of Profane Religions (Firmicus Maternus)536–37
    On the Gods (Apollodorus of Athens)70–74
    oral sources, and origins of mythography as a genre42–49
    Origen
    origins and sources, Greek vs. Roman203–5
    Palaephatus, Unbelievable Tales
      outlook and influence279
      and rationalization319
      structure of entries and explanations276–77
    Palatinus Graecus82
    Palinodia (Stesichorus)19
    Patria of Constantinople554
    Pediasimos, John557
    pendant images, and Greek vase painting483–85
    Petronius, Satyricon492
    phenomena, explanations of extraordinary401–3
    Photius, and Narratives of Conon163–65
    Picus-Zeus narrative, and Byzantine mythography549–50
    poetry, working mythography into learned118–22
    Posthomerica (Smyrnaeus)360
    Praeparatio Evangelica (Eusebiuus of Caesarea)548–49
    Proclus, On the Agreement between Orpheus, Pythagoras, Plato, and the Chaldean Oracles341–42
    rationalization
      and Heraclitus the Mythographer’s On Unbelievable Stories186, 187–89
      and Pausanias’s Description of Greece291–93
    refutation, and mythography under the rhetor422–23
    Roman sources, vs. Greek sources203–5
    Sacrifice of Iphigenia at Aulis499
    Sannazaro, Jacopo584
    Satyricon (Petronius)492
    scholastic corpora, origins of241
    scholia, and study and reading of tragedy305–6
    Smyrnaeus, Quintus, Posthomerica360
    Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica360
    Stoicism
      Annaeus Cornutus, Survey of the Traditions of Greek Theology170–75
    Survey of the Traditions of Greek Theology170–75
    Symposium (Xenophon)354
    Synopsis Chronike (Constantine Manasses)552–53
    Syrianus, On the Agreement between Orpheus, Pythagoras, Plato, and the Chaldean Oracles341–42
    temporality, and origins of mythography as a genre49–52
    Thebaid (Statius)107
    Theban Paradoxes (Lysimachus)67–69
    Theodoret of Cyr538
    Theodulf of Orleans568
    theology
      Survey of the Traditions of Greek Theology170–75
    Theophilus, Bishop of Antioch533
    To Autolycus (Theophilus)533
    To the Gentiles (Tertullian)534
    To the Youth (Basil the Great)548
    Tragodoumena (Asclepiades of Tragilus)65–69, 304
    Unbelievable Tales (Palaephatus)
      outlook and influence279
      structure of entries and explanations276–77
    universal history, myths incorporated in a180
    variant versions, treatment in early Greek poetry18–21
    Vergil, commentary tradition on105–6
    Works and Days19
    writing, and origins of mythography as a genre35–38
    Xenophon, Symposium354
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