Myths on the Margins of Homer: Prolegomena to the ›Mythographus Homericus‹

Description

Even though there is agreement on the existence of an Imperial commentary on Homer, going under the name Mythographus Homericus, a large-scale study of this work has been lacking. The objective of this collective volume is to fill this blank. The authors represent diverse opinions, a consequence of the complex nature of the textual tradition but also of the difficulty of defining the nature of this mythographic work itself. This volume offers a study of Mythographus Homericus from different perspectives: the place of the work in the history of scholarship, the state of the text, which has been transmitted by scholia and papyri, its readership, its place in mythography and in Homeric scholarship, its intertextual relationship to other mythographic works or scholiastic corpora and its contribution to the study of myth from a typological perspective. Contents List of Tables and Figures Introduction Part I: The Historical Context of the Birth of the Mythographus Homericus Panzer, the Mythographus Homericus, and fin de siècle German Scholarship Part II: The Text The Ecdotic Problem of the Mythographus Homericus: Some Thoughts on the Scholiastic Side Notes on the Manuscript Transmission of some Fragments of the Mythographus Homericus on the Odyssey Part III: The Mythographical Work Aetia and Foundation Myth in the Mythographus Homericus: Some Examples from the Papyri Towards an Edition and Commentary of the Mythographus Homericus on the Odyssey Part IV: The Mythographus Homericus in Context: Intertextuality, Parallels and the Study of Myth The Varying Correspondence between the Mythographus Homericus Corpus and ‘Apollodorus’ the Mythographer The Myth of the Mythographus Vergilianus Heracles’ Sack of Troy in Mythographus Homericus (D schol. Il. 20.145) Afterword Afterword List of Contributors Index Nominum et Rerum Index Locorum