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"By the Roman age the traditional stories of Greek myth had long since ceased to reflect popular culture. Mythology had become instead a central element in elite culture. If one did not know the stories, one would not understand most of the allusions in the poets and orators, classics and contemporaries alike; nor would one be able to identify the scenes represented on the mosaic floors and wall paintings, or on the silverware at well-appointed homes." "A surprisingly large number of mythographic treatises survive from the early empire, and many papyrus fragments from lost works prove that they were in common use. In addition, author Alan Cameron identifies a hitherto unrecognized type of aid to the reading of Greek and Latin classical and classicizing texts - what might be called mythographic companions to learned poets such as Aratus, Callimachus, Vergil, and Ovid, complete with source references. Much of this book is devoted to an analysis of the importance evidently attached to citing classical sources for mythical stories, the clearest proof that they were now a part of learned culture."--BOOK JACKET.

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2004, Oxford University Press
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in
Oxford, New York
Series
American classical studies ;, v. 48, American classical studies ;, no. 48.

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Dewey Decimal Class
470.9/15
Library of Congress
PA3070 .C36 2004

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xvi, 346 p. ;
Number of pages
346

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Open Library
OL3685139M
ISBN 10
0195171217
LCCN
2003047112
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1760305

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