Writing myth
Subtitle: mythography in the ancient world
By: edited by Stephen M. Trzaskoma and R. Scott Smith
Contributors: American Philological Association. Meeting
Series: Studies in the history and anthropology of religion -- 4; Studies in the history and anthropology of religion -- 4.
Publisher: Peeters
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Leuven; Paris; Walpole, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9789042929111
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Greek Mythology; Congresses; Historiography; Roman Mythology; Mythology, Greek, in literature; Mythology, Roman, in literature
Notes: Papers from a panel "Mythography in he Greek and Roman Worlds" held at the 2009 annual meeting of the American Philological Association in Philadelphia.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-358) and index.
Table of contents: title: The origins and development of Greek mythography. Herodotos and the early mythographers : the case of the Kabeiroi / R.L. Fowler; title: Choerilus Mythistoricus / K.A. MacFarlane; title: Greek Thebes in early mythographic tradition / D.W. Berman; title: Hellenistic and imperial mythography. Local mythography : the pride of the Halicarnassus / J.N. Bremmer; title: Citation, organization and authorial presence in Ps.-Apollodorus' Bibliotheca / S.M. Trzaskoma; title: Text and transmission of Ps.-Apollodorus' Bibliotheca : avenues for future research / U. Kenens; title: Traces of scholarship and erudition in Greek mythographic payri from the Roman period / M. Huys; title: Hyginus' fabulae : toward a Roman mythography / K.F.B. Fletcher; title: Mythographic material and method in the so-called "Statius Scholia' / R.S. Smith; title: The mythographic impulse and other genres. Geographers as mythographers : the case of Strabo / L.E. Patterson; title: Complementarity and contradiction in Ovidian mythography / J. Farrell; title: Young Achilles in the Roman world / A. Cameron; title: True or false? Greek myth and mythography in the progymnasmata / C.A. Gibson; title: Fulgentius the mythographer / G. Hays.