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20 October 2022
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15 September 2022
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End Matter
Index
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Published:September 2022
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'Index', in R. Scott Smith, and Stephen M. Trzaskoma (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Mythography (2022; online edn, Oxford Academic, 20 Oct. 2022), https://doi.org/, accessed 5 May 2025.
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593Index
For the benefit of digital users, indexed terms that span two pages (e.g., 52–53) may, on occasion, appear on only one of those pages.
Figures are indicated by f following the page number
- active myths432–34
- Aeschylus, Prometheus352–53
- Aetia (Callimachus)122
- Alexander of Aetolia120–21
- Alexander the Great, analysis of historiography438
- Alexandra (Lycophron)127–30
- Alexandrian verse117–18, 130–31
- Alexander of Aetolia120–21
- Antimachus119–20
- Apollonius’s Argonautica124–27
- Callimachus’s Aetia122
- and epic saga124–27
- Euphorion of Chalcis121–22
- Hermesianax119–20
- Lycophron’s Alexandra127–30
- mythography into learned poetry118–22
- Philitas119
- allegoresis and allegory
- and depicting myth190
- Heraclitus and193–96
- and Jewish and Christian exegesis196
- Pausanias291–93
- philosophical allegoresis331–45
- Stoic allegoresis333–38
- 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
- Antehomerica (Tzetzes)554–55
- antihomerica138–39
- background and context134–35
- Dares, mythography of137–38
- Dictys, mythography of135–37
- Antimachus119–20
- Antoninus Liberalis, Collection of Metamorphoses
- as autonomous narratives146–47
- contents144–45
- date and authorship143–44
- definition of text142–43
- network strategies145–46
- Apollodorus the Mythographer, Bibliotheca
- author and audience151–53
- contents and organization153–56
- sources157–58
- textual transmission156–57
- Arcadia (Sannazaro)584
- Argonauts (Dionysius Scytobrachion)320
- Aristides531
- Armenides of Thebes386–89
- Arnobius535
- Arthurian legends, and medieval western mythography574
- Asclepiades65–67
- astromythic program, catasterization and the369–72
- astronomical data, catasterismic myths and373–75
- Athenagoras of Athens532–33
- Athens, and atthidography389–91
- Atthides323–24
- Augustan period320
- Augustine, Bishop of Hippo537–38
- Bibliotheca (Apollodorus the Mythographer)159
- author and audience151–53
- contents and organization153–56
- sources157–58
- textual transmission156–57
- Book of Laws (Plethon)557–58
- Byzantine mythography
- Eusebius of Caesarea548–49
- Eustathius of Thessalonica556
- Malalas, John549–52
- Manasses, Constantine552–53
- Nonnus of Panopolis553
- and Patria of Constantinople554
- Pediasimos, John557
- Picus-Zeus narrative549–50
- Plethon, George Gemistus557–58
- and Trojan War556–57
- Tzetzes, John554–56
- Zeuxippus Baths553–54
- Callimachus of Cyrene122
- Cartari, Vincenzo587–88
- Casa dei Dioscuri499–73
- Casa di Giasone (House of Jason)496–97
- Castor of Rhodes263–64
- Catalogue of Ships349
- Catalogue of Women18
- catalogues
- in early Greek poetry16–18
- and etymologies349–50
- and mythography on papyri228–29
- in Ovidian mythography265–67
- paradoxography and myths in398–401
- catasterisms378–79
- the astromythic program369–72
- and astronomical data373–75
- catasterismographic tradition366–67
- first appearance of375–77
- history and definition of365–66
- place in mythographical tradition377–78
- process of catasterization367–69
- sources372–73
- Celsus345
- Chaeremon, and Cornutus174–75
- charter myths430
- Chaucer, Geoffrey583
- chorography, mythography, and history444–45
- Christianity, mythography and
- Aristides531
- Arnobius535
- Athenagoras of Athens532–33
- Augustine, Bishop of Hippo537–38
- Basil of Caesarea537
- Clement of Alexandria533–34
- Firmicus Maternus, Julius536–37
- Fulgentius the Mythographer539–41
- Gregory of Nazianzus537
- historical context529–31
- Lactantius535–36
- Martyr, Justin531–32
- Nonnus of Panopolis538–39
- Origen, Philocalia534–35
- Tatian532
- Tertullian534
- Theodoret of Cyr538
- Theophilus, Bishop of Antioch533
- writers, chronological survey of531–41 See also Byzantine mythography; See also medieval western mythography
- 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
- Clement of Alexandria533–34
- Collection of Metamorphoses (Antoninus Liberalis)
- as autonomous narratives146–47
- contents144–45
- date and authorship143–44
- definition of text142–43
- network strategies145–46
- composition, and mythography under the rhetor423–24
- compositional techniques462–63
- confirmation, and mythography under the rhetor422–23
- Conon, Narratives (Diegeseis)163
- and Metamorphoses320
- author and date163–64
- sources165
- topics166–68
- work and title164–65
- Conti, Natale588
- Crates, and Stoic allegoresis335
- Cratylus (Plato)353–54
- Cure for Hellenic Maladies, A (Theodoret of Cyr)538
- Daniel of Winchester569
- Dares137–38
- De Deis Gentium Historia (Giraldi)586–87
- De Excidio Troiae (Dares)137–38
- De Fluviis et Montibus360
- Demeter (Philitas)119
- Description of Greece (Pausanias)446–47
- interpretive methods291–93
- mythographer, Pausanias as290–91
- rationalization in321
- sources293–97
- Dictys135–37
- Diegeseis (Conon)320
- Diodorus Siculus, Library40, 178–79, 263
- depicting myths181–82
- mythography vs. writing myths182–83
- and a universal history180
- Diogenes, and Stoic allegoresis335–36
- Dionysius Scytobrachion320
- documentation and sources, and imperial mythography80–82
- doublets, in Hyginus’s Fabulae203
- education, mythography and409–10, 424–25
- and basic literacy412–14
- composition423–24
- educational system411–12
- the grammaticus414–20
- narration420–21
- refutation and confirmation422–23
- rhetor, mythography under the420–24
- Ephemeris (Dictys)135–37
- epic saga, weaving mythography into124–27
- Erotika Pathemata (Parthenius)
- author’s intellectual milieu286–88
- content and characters283–85
- preface286–87
- sources285–86
- work, date, and authorship282–83
- erudition, and imperial mythography88–90
- Ethnica (Stephanus of Byzantium)360
- etiologies, in the Greek and Latin world356–58
- etymology
- and analysis of early Greek poetry21–26
- ancient etymologizing359–61
- and catalogs349–50
- and etiologies in the Greek and Latin world356–58
- etymological interpretation and theology355–56
- free etymologies353–55
- and genealogies349–50
- investigating etymologies361–62
- rhapsodic etymologies350–52
- on the stage352–53
- Euhemerus and Euhemerism
- Euhemerus, Sacred History319–20
- Euphorion of Chalcis121–22
- Euripides
- Ion353
- mythographical impulses in prologues301–3
- Eustathius of Thessalonica556
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Clement of Alexandria)533–34
- extra-institutional memory, and orgins of mythography as a genre42–49
- Fabulae (Hyginus)100–4, 199, 208, 358
- author, date, and title200–1
- organization202–3
- origins and sources203–5
- text199–200
- trends and characteristics206–7
- value of207
- family traditions, and origins of mythography47–49
- Fasti (Ovid)378
- Firmicus Maternus, Julius536–37
- foundation stories, local traditions and445–46
- geography, and mythography443, 454
- chorography and history444–45
- and local traditions445–46
- modes of mythography447–48
- mythical edges of the world443–44
- Strabo448–51
- Strabo and reading Homer as the first geographer451–54
- supraregional traditions446–47
- Geography (Strabo)448–54
- Giraldi, Lilio Gregorio586–87
- glosses, and early Greek poetry21–26
- Greek poetry, mythographical impulse in early13–16, 26
- catalogues and genealogies16–18
- etymological analysis and21–26
- glosses and21–26
- variant versions, treatment of18–21
- Greek sources, vs. Roman sources203–5
- Gregory of Nazianzus537
- Hellanicus of Lesbos51
- Hellenistic era61–63, 74
- Apollodorus of Athens70–74
- Asclepiades65–67
- compilation67–69
- fifth and fourth centuries BCE63–65
- libraries67–69
- Lysimachus of Alexandria67–69
- Heraclitus the Allegorist, Homeric Problems192–96
- and the allegorical tradition193–94
- allegory in194–96
- and philosophical allegoresis332
- rationalization in320–21
- Hermesianax119–20
- Herodotus, and origins of mythography31–32
- Hesiod, genealogies in18
- historicization, rationalization and317–18
- chronological survey319–22
- history vs. myth323–29
- the Minotaur as case study322–29
- Histories (Pherecydes of Athens)33–34
- history of mythography and mythographers. See mythographers, history and categories
- Homer
- etymological analysis of Odyssey23
- etymologies351–52
- as the first geographer451–54
- geography of Odyssey451–54
- mythography and education414–20
- Odyssey frieze492–93
- and Platonism and Neoplatonism338
- scholia to243–46, see also Mythographus Homericus
- Homerica (Tzetzes)554–55
- Homeric Problems (Heraclitus the Allegorist)192–96
- and the allegorical tradition193–94
- allegory in194–96
- and philosophical allegoresis332
- rationalization in320–21
- House of Jason (Casa di Giasone)496–97
- Hyginus
- author, date, and title200–1
- and mythography in Latin100–4
- organization202–3
- origins and sources203–5
- text199–200
- trends and characteristics206–7
- value of207
- Hymn to Aphrodite, etymological analysis of24
- hypomnema287
- hypotheses, and study and reading of tragedy306–7
- Ibis (Ovid)109–11
- imperial mythography78
- autonomous treatises84–86
- and change in world’s dimensions79
- diversity of practices82–86
- erudition and88–90
- and imperial Greek mythography78–80
- imperial period, and rationalization320–21
- increased sources and documentation80–82
- individual mythographers90–91
- as open text86–88
- and Palatinus Graecus82
- secondary literature and commentary83–84
- and society88–90
- 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
- Josephus, Flavius39–40
- knowledge, domains of412–14
- Labours of Heracles (Pediasimos)557
- Lactantius535–36
- Latin, mythography in97–100, 111, 203–5
- exegesis on poetic works104–11
- Ovid, Ibis109–11
- Ovid, Narrationes107–9
- Scholia to Germanicus104
- Scholia to Statius’s Thebaid107
- texts by Hyginus100–4
- Vergil, commentary tradition on105–6
- Latin commentary tradition, and rationalization322
- lemmata, definition and use of239
- libraries
- in Hellenistic era67–69
- Library (Diodorus Siculus)178–79
- depicting myths181–82
- mythography vs. writing myths182–83
- and a universal history180
- Libyan Stories (Dionysius Scytobrachion)320
- literacy, and mythography in education412–14
- localism, and origins of mythography42–49
- local mythography
- Armenidas of Thebes386–89
- categories and conclusions391–93
- secondary local mythography392
- taxonomy of391–93
- logos, and origins of mythography467–68
- Lycophron of Chalcis127–30
- Lysimachus of Alexandria67–69
- macrostructures, universalizing262–64
- Manasses, Constantine552–53
- Martyr, Justin531–32
- medieval western mythography
- Arthurian legends and574
- and divine genealogies569
- Fulgentius564–66
- Isidore of Seville566–68
- Theodontius572
- Theodulf of Orleans568
- Trojan War and572–74
- Vatican Mythographers569–72
- Metamorphoses (Ovid)320 See also Ovid, and mythography
- microstructures, flexible264–65
- Minotaur, as case study in rationalization and historicization322–29
- Montanari, Franco218
- Most, Glenn14–15
- mystical knowledge, preserving on papyri232–33
- myth, and origins of mythography34–35
- mythic variants, and Ovidian mythography267–68
- mythographers, history and categories458
- ancient investigators461–62
- compositional techniques462–63
- defining myths465–67
- discursive genre, mythography as463–64
- history of term “mythographers,”459–60
- history of term “mythography,”460–61
- mythical vs. historical periods468–69
- mythos vs. logos467–68
- style, a “mythographic,”464–65
- and “time of origins” to the present469–72
- mythographical impulse, in early Greek poetry13–16, 26
- catalogues and genealogies16–18
- etymological analysis21–26
- glosses and21–26
- variant versions, treatment of18–21
- Mythographus Homericus211, 221–22
- exegesis and mythography215–16
- mythical versions220–21
- papyri, and evidence for212–14
- scholla, and evidence for212–14
- sources, problem of217–20
- mythography
- as a genre463–64
- Mythologies (Fulgentius the Mythographer)539–41
- myths, methods of depicting181–82
- myth vs. history323–29
- names, etymological analysis of21–26
- narration, and mythography under the rhetor420–21
- Nostoi (Lysimachus)67–69
- Odyssey frieze492–93
- oecumene, mythical edges of the443–44
- 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
- Philocalia534–35
- origins and sources, Greek vs. Roman203–5
- origins of mythography as a genre
- defining mythography29–31
- family traditions47–49
- and localism42–49
- myth and mythography34–35
- myth and mythos31–34
- oral sources and written communication42–49
- and Panhellenism42–49
- and relative chronology45–46
- time, perceptions of49–52
- writing and35–38
- Ovid, and mythography261–62
- catalogues265–67
- macrostructures, universalizing262–64
- microstructures, flexible264–65
- mythic variants267–68
- mythography after Ovid269–70
- research, modes of268–69
- painting, mythography and Roman wall490–91
- Casa dei Dioscuri499–73
- Casa di Giasone (House of Jason)496–97
- continuous narrative494–96
- early to late Imperial497–99
- from friezes to panels493–94
- Odyssey frieze492–93
- painting before Rome491–92
- Philostratus’s fictive guided tour501–3
- Republican first century492–93
- Palaephatus, Unbelievable Tales
- author and content274–75
- outlook and influence279
- and rationalization319
- rationalizing aims and methods275–76
- structure of entries and explanations276–77
- Palatinus Graecus82
- Palinodia (Stesichorus)19
- papyri, mythography on226, 235–36
- context of time and place234–35
- and evidence for Mythographus Homericus212–14
- forms and contents226–30
- narratives227–28
- practical uses230–32
- and preserving mythical knowledge232–33
- style, writing, and format233–34
- paradoxography396–97
- catalogues, myths in398–401
- Christian Jacob397–98
- extraordinary phenomena, myths as explanations of401–3
- parallel examples of paradoxa, myths as403–6
- Phlegon of Tralles404–5
- sources397–98
- Parthenius, Erotika Pathemata
- author’s intellectual milieu286–88
- content and characters283–85
- preface286–87
- sources285–86
- work, date, and authorship282–83
- Patria of Constantinople554
- Pausanias, Description of Greece446–47
- interpretive methods291–93
- mythographer, Pausanias as290–91
- rationalization in321
- sources293–97
- Pediasimos, John557
- pendant images, and Greek vase painting483–85
- Periegesis Hellados.See Description of Greece (Pausanias)
- Peripatetics64–65
- Petrarch580–81
- Petronius, Satyricon492
- phenomena, explanations of extraordinary401–3
- Philitas119
- Philochorus324–25
- philosophy, and allegory
- Middle and Neo-Platonism340–45
- Origen, and allegoresis342–44
- philosophical allegoresis331–33
- philosophical allegoresis in Platonism338–45
- Stoic allegoresis333–38
- Philostratus the Elder501–3
- Phlegon of Tralles404–5
- Photius, and Narratives of Conon163–65
- Picus-Zeus narrative, and Byzantine mythography549–50
- Plato, Cratylus353–54
- Plethon, George Gemistus557–58
- poetry, working mythography into learned118–22
- politics, mythography and439–40
- active myths432–34
- analytical scalpel436–39
- canonization of political myths434–36
- charter myths430
- political mythography430–32
- political myths428–30
- Tyrtaeus433–34
- Posthomerica (Smyrnaeus)360
- Posthomerica (Tzetzes)554–55
- Praeparatio Evangelica (Eusebiuus of Caesarea)548–49
- Proclus, On the Agreement between Orpheus, Pythagoras, Plato, and the Chaldean Oracles341–42
- Prometheus (Aeschylus)352–53
- rationalization, and historicization317–18
- chronological survey319–22
- history vs. myth323–29
- the Minotaur as case study322–29
- refutation, and mythography under the rhetor422–23
- Renaissance, classical mythology in the
- Cartari, Vincenzo587–88
- Conti, Natale588
- epic poetry585–86
- fine art and painting589
- Giraldi, Lilio Gregorio586–87
- Italian interest in588–89
- literary influences583
- literary translations585
- Petrarch580–81
- Sannazaro, Jacopo584
- theatrical adaptations584
- rhapsodic etymologies350–52
- rhetor, mythography under the420–24
- composition423–24
- narration420–21
- refutation and confirmation422–23
- Roman sources, vs. Greek sources203–5
- Roman wall painting, mythography and490–91
- Casa dei Dioscuri (House of the Dioscuri)499–73
- Casa di Giasone (House of Jason)496–97
- continuous narrative494–96
- early to late Imperial497–99
- from friezes to panels493–94
- Odyssey frieze492–93
- painting before Rome491–92
- Philostratus’s fictive guided tour501–3
- Republican first century492–93
- Sacrifice of Iphigenia at Aulis499
- Sannazaro, Jacopo584
- sarcophagi, Roman508–9, 522–23
- scope of material depicted509–11
- systematic to interpretative retellings of Greek myths511–14
- Satyricon (Petronius)492
- scholastic corpora, origins of241
- scholia, and study and reading of tragedy305–6
- scholia, Greek mythography and239–40, 252–53
- Apollonius Rhodius, scholia to250–52
- definition of scholia239
- Euripides, scholia to249–50
- Germanicus, scholia to104
- Greek mythography written in scholia242–43
- Homer, scholia to243–46
- origins of scholastic corpora241
- Pindar, scholia to246–49
- Statius, scholia to Thebaid107
- Seneca173–74
- Smyrnaeus, Quintus, Posthomerica360
- Sopater71–72
- sources
- in Description of Greece293–97
- and documentation, and imperial mythography80–82
- in Erotika Pathemata285–86
- and origins, Greek vs. Roman203–5
- problem of in Mythographus Homericus217–20
- tragedy as source307–9
- stage, etymology on the352–53
- Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica360
- Strabo44–45
- analysis of myth437–38
- and free etymologies354–55
- Geography and mythography448–51
- reading Homer as the first geographer451–54
- style, a “mythographic,”464–65
- supraregional traditions446–47
- 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
- Tatian532
- temporality, and origins of mythography as a genre49–52
- Tertullian534
- Thebaid (Statius)107
- Theban Paradoxes (Lysimachus)67–69
- Theodontius572
- Theodoret of Cyr538
- Theodulf of Orleans568
- Theogony (Tzetzes)555–56
- Theophilus, Bishop of Antioch533
- time, perceptions of49–52
- To Autolycus (Theophilus)533
- To the Gentiles (Tertullian)534
- To the Youth (Basil the Great)548
- tragedy, mythography and300–1, 310
- mythographical impulse of tragedy301–3
- paraliterary works305–7
- study and reading of tragedy303–7
- tragedy as source307–9
- tragic myths in antiquity303–4
- Tyrtaeus433–34
- Tzetzes, John554–56
- Unbelievable Tales (Palaephatus)
- author and content274–75
- outlook and influence279
- rationalizing aims and methods275–76
- rationalizing strategies277–79
- structure of entries and explanations276–77
- universal history, myths incorporated in a180
- variant versions, treatment in early Greek poetry18–21
- Vatican Mythographers569–72
- Vergil, commentary tradition on105–6
- wall painting, mythography and Roman490–91
- Casa dei Dioscuri499–73
- Casa di Giasone (House of Jason)496–97
- continuous narrative494–96
- early to late Imperial497–99
- from friezes to panels493–94
- Odyssey frieze492–93
- painting before Rome491–92
- Philostratus’s fictive guided tour501–3
- Republican first century492–93
- Works and Days19
- writing, and origins of mythography as a genre35–38
- Xenophon, Symposium354
- Zeno, and Stoic allegoresis333–34
- Zeuxippus Baths553–54
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