Agenorid Myth in the >Bibliotheca: A Philological Commentary of Bibl. III.1-56 and a Study Into the Composition and Organization of the Handbook

by Johanna Astrid Michels

The Bibliotheca of Pseudo-Apollodorus, perhaps the best-known mythographic text, stands out for its comprehensive aim and state of preservation. The handbook has regularly been disregarded as a repository of 'standard' myths or as a primary witness to archaic stories, a reductive view at once underestimating and romanticizing the merits of the Bibliotheca. This monograph unlocks the Bibliotheca as a literary work in its own right by offering the first...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110602792
• ISBN13: 9783110602791
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 909 Pages
• Weight: 3.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"