Greek Mythography in the Roman World.

Intro -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1. An Anonymous Ancient Commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses? -- Chapter 2. The Greek Sources of Hyginus and Narrator -- Chapter 3. Mythological Summaries and Companions -- Chapter 4. Narrator and His Greek Predecessors -- Chapter 5. Historiae and Source References -- Chapter 6. Bogus Citations -- Chapter 7. Myth in the Margins -- Chapter 8. Mythographus Vergilianus -- Chapter 9. Myth and Society -- Chapter 10. The Roman Poets -- Chapter 11. Conclusion -- Appendix 1. Lactantius Placidus -- Appendix 2. Three Versions of Hyginus -- Appendix 3. The Text of the Narrationes -- Appendix 4. Marginal Source Citations in Parthenius and Antoninus Liberalis -- Appendix 5. Source Citations in the Origo Gentis Romanae -- Appendix 6. Anonymus Florentinus -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- X.

By the Roman age the traditional stories of Greek myth had long since ceased to reflect popular culture, and become instead a central element in elite culture. This book illustrates the importance of semi-learned mythographic handbooks in the social, literary, and artistic world of Rome. One of the most intriguing features of these works is the fact that they all cite classical sources for the stories they tell, sources which are often forged.

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