Greek mythography in the Roman world / Alan Cameron.
Greek mythography in the Roman world / Alan Cameron.
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Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
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2004.
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N470.915/1
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English
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xvi, 346 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Ch. 1. An anonymous ancient commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses? -- Ch. 2. The Greek sources of Hyginus and narrator -- Ch. 3. Mythological summaries and companions -- Ch. 4. Narrator and his Greek predecessors -- Ch. 5. Historiae and source references -- Ch. 6. Bogus citations -- Ch. 7. Myth in the...
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Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
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England
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2004.
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"A surprisingly large number of mythographic treatises survive from the early empire, and many papyrus fragments from lost works prove that they were in common use. In addition, author Alan Cameron identifies a hitherto unrecognized type of aid to the reading of Greek and Latin classical and classicizing texts - what might be called mythographic co...
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Greek mythography in the Roman world / Alan Cameron.
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American classical studies ; v. 48.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N470.915/1
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0195171217 (acid-free paper)
9780195171211 (acid-free paper)
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470.915
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991020110169702626
