Myth, Mythography, and Historiography

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.

• PrefaceGroundwork1.Herodotus and his ContemporariesMyth, History, Mythistory2.Mythos and Logos3.Myth, History, Mythistory4.Greek MythographyEthnicity5.Genealogical Thinking, Hesiod's Catalogue, and the Creation of the Hellenes6.The nostoi and Archaic Greek Ethnicity7.Foreigners in Early Greek MythographyStyle, Methods, Contexts8.Early Historiē and Literacy9.Herodotus and Athens10.Herodotus and his Prose Predecessors11.How to Tell a Myth: Genealogy, Mythology, Mythography12.Hecataeus, Pherecydes, Hellanicus: Three Approaches to Mythography13.Imaginary Itineraries in the Beyond14.Herodotus and the Pleasure of the TextReligion15.Thoughts on Myth and Religion in Early Greek Historiography16.Gods in Early Greek HistoriographyPostclassical Continuations17.Apollodorus and the Art of the Variant18.Myth(ography), History and the PeripatosLooking Back, and Forward19.Myth and Mythography: Last Thoughts, and a Response to Criticism