Name: Writing Myth: Mythography in the Ancient World
SKU: 57491047
Author: Smith, Rs ; Trzaskoma, Sm
ISBN: 9789042929111

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Writing Myth: Mythography in the Ancient World

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Peeters

Autor

Smith, Rs ; Trzaskoma, Sm

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

382

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

23.9x16x2.3 cm

Peso

0.64 kg.

ISBN13

9789042929111

Categorías

Antigua grecia
Antiguo roma
Estudios literarios: antiguos, clásicos y medievales
Historia antigua
Historia de europa: romanos

Writing Myth: Mythography in the Ancient World

Smith, Rs ; Trzaskoma, Sm (Autor) · Peeters · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "Writing Myth: Mythography in the Ancient World"

This collection of essays brings innovative perspectives to the study of ancient mythography, that is, the writings of the Greeks and Romans about their own mythical traditions. It treats a range of sources from the beginnings of myth criticism in the 5th century BCE to the end of antiquity in the 5th century CE, highlighting mythography's centrality to ancient views of myth and moving beyond seeing mythographic texts as valuable primarily for the preservation of details about traditional stories. Important individual mythographers are treated (e.g., Ps.-Apollodorus and Hyginus), but throughout there is an emphasis on the connections of mythography with more literary genres, such as epic, and more prestigious prose genres, such as historiography and geography. This makes the volume of interest for those who work on myth in Greek and Roman society, but also for anyone working on ancient intellectual history more broadly, including those who study rhetoric, education, literary composition, art and ancient scholarly traditions.