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

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 5 List of Tables and Figures 7 Introduction 9 Part I: The Historical Context of the Birth of the Mythographus Homericus 23 Panzer, the Mythographus Homericus, and fin de siècle German Scholarship 23 Part II: The Text 37 The Ecdotic Problem of the Mythographus Homericus: Some Thoughts on the Scholiastic Side 37 Notes on the Manuscript Transmission of some Fragments of the Mythographus Homericus on the Odyssey 65 Part III: The Mythographical Work 81 Aetia and Foundation Myth in the Mythographus Homericus: Some Examples from the Papyri 81 Towards an Edition and Commentary of the Mythographus Homericus on the Odyssey 117 Part IV: The Mythographus Homericus in Context: Intertextuality, Parallels and the Study of Myth 139 The Varying Correspondence between the Mythographus Homericus Corpus and ‘Apollodorus’ the Mythographer 139 The Myth of the Mythographus Vergilianus 165 Heracles’ Sack of Troy in Mythographus Homericus (D schol. Il. 20.145) 203 Afterword 223 Afterword 223 List of Contributors 235 Index Nominum et Rerum 239 Index Locorum 245 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.--provided by publisher 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.