Apollodorus

The only work of its kind to survive from classical antiquity, the 'Library of Apollodorus' is a guide to Greek mythology, from the origins of the universe to the Trojan War. Used as a source book by classicists from antiquity to Robert Graves, it tells the story of each of the great families of heroic mythology, and the various adventures associated with the main heroes and heroines Robin Hard's accessible and fluent translation is supplemented by comprehensive notes, a map and full genealogical tables. The Introduction gives a detailed account of the Library's sources and situates it within the fascinating narrative traditions of Greek mythology.

The Library of Greek Mythology

Biblioteca

Apollodorus Atheniensis

The Library provides in three books a grand summary of traditional Greek mythology and heroic legends. Written in clear and unaffected style, the compendium faithfully follows the Greek literary sources. It is thus an important record of Greek accounts of the origin and early history of the world and their race. This work has been attributed to Apollodorus of Athens (born c. 180 BCE), a student of Aristarchus. But the text as we have it was written by an author probably living in the first or second century of our era. In his highly valued notes to the Loeb Classical Library edition (which is in two volumes) J. G. Frazer cites the principal passages of other ancient writers where each particular story is told and compares the various versions to those in the Library.

Βιβλιοθηκη

Epitoma Vaticana ex Apollodori bibliothec. Edidit Richardus Wagner. Accedunt Carae Mythographae de Apollodori Fontibus et epimetrum praefationem borbonicam ad homeri iliadem continens.

Epitoma Vaticana ex Apollodori bibliothec

Greek mythology is the body of myths and teachings that belong to the ancient Greeks, concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices. It was a part of the religion in ancient Greece. Literally, mythology is folk creation, just like the Bible stories, Aesop's Fables. Greek mythology is the valuable heritage of world culture.

Greek Mythology Stories

Apollodori Bibliotheca

Mark P. O. Morford

Robert J. Lenardon

Classical Mythology 7/E; Apollodorus: The Library of Greek Mythology; Jason and the Golden Fleece (the Argonautica): Apollonius of Rhodes

"The Library is a meditation on realization and loss through the practice of reading. After his father's unexpected death, the author searched for him in selected books from his father's library in an attempt to access and preserve his (and his father's) memories and thoughts as well as to give shape to questions about a disturbing past. A fugue-structure assembles photographs of books from his father's library alongside the author's prose-poems which respond to his reading of those books. As photographs of books bear witness to the objects with which the father had physical contact, the texts emanating from those objects imagine representations of his thoughts as he read. Photo-collages of forests represent the visual thoughts of the author as he attempted to read his own father, who was often obscured by the enigmas of despair and anxiety. The multiple voices and narrative perspectives encountered in the books from the library expose a series of formative events within and surrounding the father's life. They also inspire the author to create an imagined history in the resulting prose-poems. The culminating book--a portrait in absentia--creates a parallel reality to his father, one that masks actual memories and obstructs his father's voice as it probes the space between documentation and invention, and between the imperative to understand and the impossibility of knowing." --Artist's website, viewed May 13, 2019.

The Library

Pseudo-Apol·lodor

The immortal characters of Greek mythology enact their dramas, conflicts, and passions in the "Library of Apollodorus." Probably composed in the first century A.D., it is the only Greek handbook of mythology to survive antiquity, and is a major source of our knowledge of Greek myths. Beginning with the birth of the gods and ending with the death of Odysseus, the 'Library' traces the destinies of such great mythic figures as Prometheus, Oedipus, Heracles, Daedalus, and the heroes of the Trojan War. Michael Simpson's new translation captures the fine simplicity and straightforwardness of the original. Leonard Baskin's drawings throw a unique contemporary light on this ancient world.

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