Mythography as Homeric Exegesis: Study of some Examples of the Mythographus Homericus and the Scholia Minora to Homer
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https://doi.org/10.3989/emerita.2021.01.2017Keywords:
Mythographus Homericus, Scholia minora to Homer, MythographyAbstract
Modern criticism has treated the so-called Mythographus Homericus (MH) primarily as a mythographic manual. The very name that has been imposed is an evident example of this. On the contrary, it has not been studied in depth as a work of Homeric exegesis. This article proposes an approach to the exegetical method of the MH based on some examples from the papyri and scholia. The MH comments on the Homeric text from different perspectives, mainly the referenced myth, the mythical context and the mythographic gloss to a specific term. In spite of the absence, in most cases, of formal commentary marks, the ancient reader would understand the text as a commentary under specific reading conventions. The MH tradition, despite having been altered in its wording throughout its transmission, remains stable in its contents and its method.
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