... mythography, he had begun early on, while in Naples in the 1330s, but never finished the Allegoria mitologica, an adaptation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, books 1 and 2. Clear in both works is a mission to reconstruct a genealogy of the gods and a universal history by means...

...This volume has detailed late medieval mythography by means of three Italian paradigm-shift figures, Dante, Boccaccio, and Christine de Pizan. Their hybrid texts combine and switch allegory and gloss in complex ways to project a form of autobiography and the personal. Mythographic commentaries...

...This chapter provides an overview of the origins and early development of mythography in late archaic and classical Greece. A particular form of the reception of myth, mythographical collections are one of the results of the rapid spread of alphabetic writing, particularly from the 6th century...

..., and its themes, and questions some of the author’s writing characteristics. Antoninus Liberalis Collection of Metamorphoses Collection of Metamorphoses Antoninus Liberalis Antoninus Liberalis anthology metamorphosis mythography empire Greek Latin The  Collection of Metamorphoses...

... variants, resolving difficulties, or analyzing these myths. Fabulae Hyginus Hyginus doublets in Hyginus’s Fabulae Greek sources vs Roman sources Latin mythography in origins and sources Greek vs Roman Roman sources vs Greek sources sources mythology mythography translation literary criticism...

... simplistic and arbitrary, it is at the same time also systematic, coherent, and consistent. Palaephatus thus occupies a unique place in the history of mythography and the exegesis of myth. References to modern scholarship provide the status quaestionis; some long-held notions are, however...

...“Local mythography” is a problematic category, though there is little question that many surviving mythographical texts could be defined as such. This chapter begins with a theoretical discussion that seeks to contextualize both the “local” and “mythic” components of the concept and continues...

... contemporary details of topography, but most refer to the past to define places and regions. This is why geographers often had to engage in mythography. I use Strabo as a main case study: he wrote the most substantial geographical work to survive from antiquity, which preserves much information about...

...In the Middle Ages in western Europe mythography was intended to set out in clear narrative terms and explain the body of myth that might only be alluded to in the corpus of Classical Latin literature that was still read throughout this period. It might have had the further intention of refuting...

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... Derrida Jacques Butler Judith Ludovico Ariosto Orlando Furioso Medusa Ericthonius Vittoria Colonna gender and power constructing masculinity Renaissance texts contemporary theory mythography women warriors A t the beginning of the thirty-seventh canto of the third and final edition of his...

...This chapter provides an overview of many of the important mythographical texts approximately contemporaneous with the Second Sophistic. The authors of these works sought to systematize or interpret traditional mythological lore and individual myths. Although mythography itself tended...

...In the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, there were several collections and editions of earlier mythographies available, but these books often drew attention to the need for new mythographies to be written. The first phase of the renewal of the mythographical genre came in humanist...

... allegory Heracles chest of Cypselos the Homer Od Catalogue of Ships Aegean Sea the Aigeus feedback Cicero Boreas Colonos Ilissos River Oedipus Oreithyia Plato epichoric voices Pausanias Greek myth travel writing Greek Imperial literature James Frazer Paul Veyne mythography Boreas...

... mythography oral mythology Saxo Grammaticus Snorri Sturluson The title of this book, Old Norse Mythology, recognizes the fact that the mythology in question is recorded almost exclusively in the manuscripts of Old Norse literary tradition—that is, in manuscripts primarily from thirteenth...

... explanations for monsters biology dogs hyenas wolf wolves Knossos mosaics Ovid Pausanias travel writer Tzetzes Hesiod Medusa metamorphosis Minotaur Theseus Greek myth hybridity Cretan myth mythography Theseus’ slaying the half-man, half-bull Minotaur (‘Minos-bull’) is one of the earliest...

...This chapter looks at Diodorus’s inclusion of mythology in his history. This is another example of his originality, given a long tradition of excluding myth in Greek historiography. There are also clear signs of his engagement with a broader range of Hellenistic mythography. He employs a variety...

..., an allegorised mythography and cosmology, De nuptiis is an ideal source of complete and reliable information about the seven liberal arts. The exposition of the arts is framed by a ‘plot’ whereby Mercury and Philology are to be united in marriage through the efforts of Apollo, with the gods...

...Hesiod’s Verbal Craft: Studies in Hesiod’s Conception of Language and its Ancient Reception. Athanassios Vergados, Oxford University Press (2020). © Athanassios Vergados. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198807711.001.0001 This chapter explores the ways in which early mythography resonates...

... Apollo statuary archetypes mythography ethics Greek myth character Pater’s first studies on myth mark the great transition in his career. Before them, Pater published philosophical criticism, creating a unique form of aesthetic appreciations that seek in essay the subjects’ creative formula...