TY - BOOK ID - 3424338 TI - Writing myth : mythography in the Ancient World AU - Trzaskoma, Stephen M. AU - Smith, R. Scott AU - Peeters PY - 2013 VL - 4 SN - 9789042929111 9042929111 PB - Leuven Paris Walpole, MA Peeters DB - UniCat KW - Greek mythology in literature KW - Griekse mythologie in de literatuur KW - Mythologie [Griekse ] in de literatuur KW - Mythologie [Romeinse ] in literatuur KW - Mythologie grecque dans la littérature KW - Mythologie romaine dans la littérature KW - Mythology [Greek ] in literature KW - Mythology [Roman ] in literature KW - Mythology, Classical KW - Mythologie ancienne KW - Antiquité KW - --Mythe KW - --Mythologie antique KW - --Mythology, Greek KW - Mythology, Roman KW - Mythology, Greek, in literature KW - Mythology, Roman, in literature KW - Historiography KW - Mythology, Greek KW - Classical literature KW - History and criticism KW - Congresses KW - Mythe KW - Mythologie antique KW - Mythology, Greek - Historiography - Congresses KW - Mythology, Roman - Historiography - Congresses KW - Mythology, Greek, in literature - Congresses KW - Mythology, Roman, in literature - Congresses UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:3424338 AB - This collection of essays brings innovative perspectives to the study of ancient mythography, that is, the writings of 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. ER -