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The Greek myths are characteristically fabulous; they are full of monsters, metamorphoses, and the supernatural. However, they could be told in other ways as well. This volume charts ancient dissatisfaction with the excesses of myth, and the various attempts to cut these stories down to size by explaining them as misunderstood accounts of actual events.

Greek literature --- Griechisch. --- Literatur. --- Mythos. --- Rezeption. --- Rationalität. --- Greek literature. --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- Paléphatos --- Criticism and interpretation --- Conon --- Plutarch --- Pausanias --- Heraclitus --- Mythology [Greek ] in literature --- Myth --- Demythologization --- God --- Gods --- Mythology --- Religion --- History. --- Palaephatus --- Conon, --- Pausanias, --- Pausanias Periegeta --- Pausania, --- Pavsanīĭ, --- Pavzaniĭ, --- Παυσανίας, --- Plutarchus Chaeronensis --- Plutarchus --- Plutarkh --- Plutarkhus --- Plutarque --- Plutarco --- Plutarchus, --- Plutarch, --- Ploutarchos --- Ploetarchos --- Blūtārkhūs --- Плутарх --- Плутах --- Plutarh --- פלוטארכוס --- پلوتارخ --- Πλούταρχος, --- Pseudo-Plutarch --- Plutarkhosz --- Konon, --- Palaiphatos --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Palaephatus Mythographus

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Building upon the explosion of recent work on mythography, contributions to this volume direct attention to less frequently explored questions of how ancient poets, historians, and philosophers themselves adopted and adapted the work of mythographers. Study of the way that mythographers and their contemporaries take on positions of, alternately, “host” or “parasite” in relation to the other exposes the richness mythographic practice and the roles that mythographers played in the evolving Greco-Roman discourse of myth. From, among others, the seeds of mythographic discourse in Pindar and Plato, to the mythography of the Peripatics, the in-between mythography of Diodorus Siculus, and the “mythographic topography” of Pausanias, this volume invites a reappraisal of the role that mythography played at every stage of Greek thought about myth. Through contributions that explore both mythographers’ distinctive style of studying myth to other contributions that focus primarily on the how and why of non-mythographers’ use of mythographic techniques, what emerges is a picture of mythography that broadens our conception of mythography while at the same time inviting scholars to seek out more such echoes of mythographic discourse in the work of poets, historians, philosophers at large.

E-books --- Mythologists. --- Mythology, Greek.