Mythographer and Mythography
Indigenous Categories? Greek Inquiries into the Heroic Past
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23420667 |
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| Authors | Claude Calame (Anthropology, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Pages | 458-474 |
| Publication date | 2022-10-20 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Mythography (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190648312.013.34 |
| OpenAlex | W4307743812 |
| ISBN | 9780190648312 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
To modern eyes, Greek mythography constitutes a distinct discursive genre if not a “literary genre.” If we go back to the “native” categories we notice that neither mythographos nor mythographia are used before the Alexandrian period. An investigation about the terms designating genealogists as Acusilaos of Argos or Pherecydes of Athens will show that their works have to be understood as creations in prose of heroic history referring to a precise historical and cultural situation, in a certain city. The development of these forms of historiographical inquiry and composition has to be considered in relationship with their poetic function and pragmatics in the time and circumstances they were written for.
Aesthetics · Archaeology · Art · Composition (language) · Historiography · Linguistics · Literature · Notice · Period (music) · Poetry · Political science · Pragmatics · Classical Antiquity Studies · Contemporary and Historical Greek Studies · History · Law · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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