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Language: English
Published by Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 2007
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- Title
- Apollodorus' Library and Hyginus' Fabulae
- Author
- Apollodorus; Hyginus
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.
- Publication year
- 2007
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0872208206
- ISBN 13
- 9780872208209
By offering, for the first time in a single edition, complete English translations of Apollodorus' Library and Hyginus' Fabulae--the two most important surviving "handbooks" of classical mythography--this volume enables readers to compare the two's versions of the most important Greek and Roman myths. A General Introduction sets the Library and Fabulae into the wider context of ancient mythography; introductions to each text discuss in greater detail issues of authorship, aim, and influence. A general index, an index of people and geographic locations, and an index of authors and works cited by the mythographers are also included.
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