Early Greek Mythography: Volume 1

This review is about a book called "Early Greek Mythography: Volume 1" by Professor Fowler. This book collects the scattered quotations of the Greek writers of the 6th to the 4th centuries BC who first recorded in prose the tales of Greek mythology (the mythographers ). The book is an edition of the texts of Hekataios' Genealogies , Akousilaos, Pherekydes of Athens, the mythographical works of Hellanikos, Andron of Halikarnassos, pseudo-Epimenides, Herodoros and many other ancient Greek mythographers. The texts are based on a fresh examination of manuscripts and papyri, particularly of the minor scholia to Homer. The texts represent an important and understudied genre of early Greek literature.

VolumThis volume collects the scattered quotations of the Greek writers of the 6th to the 4th centuries BC who first recorded in prose the tales of Greek mythology (the mythographers ). e 1 i s an edition of the texts Here, Professor Fowler presents new texts of Hekataios' Genealogies , Akousilaos, Pherekydes of Athens, the mythographical works of Hellanikos, Andron of Halikarnassos, pseudo-Epimenides, Herodoros and many other ancient Greek mythographers. The texts are based on a fresh examination of manuscripts and papyri, particularly of the minor scholia to Homer. The texts represent an important and understudied genre of early Greek literature. Review: ... a well organized and very useful work. We expect with great interest the publishing of the commentaries in the second volume. Gnomon Some editorial practices make the work very useful and easy to use. The authors are presented in alphabetical order, the typography is clear ... the critical apparatus follows the fragment in the brief ones and appears as a footnote in the longer ones. Gnomon Fowler offers us an edition that has never been proposed before: the fragments of Greek mythography from its beginnings to the early fourth century. Gnomon ... user-friendly ... I cannot emphasize too strongly my admiration for Fowler's thoroughness and consummate scholarship. Hermathena An extremely useful collection of the early evidence for writers of myth as history Bryn Mawr Classical Review