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Ergänzt um zwei speziell für diese Aufsatzsammlung verfasste Essays versammelt dieser Band Robert L. Fowlers wichtigste Arbeiten über griechische Mythen, Mythographie und Geschichtsschreibung, die seit seinem grundlegenden Artikel „Herodot und seine Zeitgenossen"" (1996), veröffentlicht wurden. Neben seiner Edition und Kommentierung der frühesten Texte (Early Greek Mythography, Oxford 2000-2013) hat seine Arbeit eine Neubewertung der Mythographie als wichtigen Teil der Literatur- und Geistesgeschichte der griechisch-römischen Welt und ein besseres Verständnis von Herodots revolutionären Historien befördert.

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Author:   Robert L. Fowler
Publisher:   Mohr Siebeck
Imprint:   Mohr Siebeck
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.60cm , Length: 23.20cm
Weight:   0.714kg
ISBN:  

9783161613340

ISBN 10:   3161613341
Pages:   400
Publication Date:   31 May 2026
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Language:   English

Table of Contents

Preface Groundwork 1.Herodotus and his Contemporaries Myth, History, Mythistory 2.Mythos and Logos 3.Myth, History, Mythistory 4.Greek Mythography Ethnicity 5.Genealogical Thinking, Hesiod's Catalogue, and the Creation of the Hellenes 6.The nostoi and Archaic Greek Ethnicity 7.Foreigners in Early Greek Mythography Style, Methods, Contexts 8.Early Historiē and Literacy 9.Herodotus and Athens 10.Herodotus and his Prose Predecessors 11.How to Tell a Myth: Genealogy, Mythology, Mythography 12.Hecataeus, Pherecydes, Hellanicus: Three Approaches to Mythography 13.Imaginary Itineraries in the Beyond 14.Herodotus and the Pleasure of the Text Religion 15.Thoughts on Myth and Religion in Early Greek Historiography 16.Gods in Early Greek Historiography Postclassical Continuations 17.Apollodorus and the Art of the Variant 18.Myth(ography), History and the Peripatos Looking Back, and Forward 19.Myth and Mythography: Last Thoughts, and a Response to Criticism

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Geboren 1954; 1977 MA, University of Toronto; 1980 DrPhil (Literae Humaniores), Oxford; Henry Overton Wills Professor für Griechisch, University of Bristol (Emeritus since 2017); Mitglied der British Academy.

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