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Bundling Myth, Bungling Myth: The Flood Myth in Ancient and Modern Handbooks of Myth
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R. Scott Smith
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3. November 2015
Abstract
This essay analyzes the narrative accounts of Deucalion’s flood within the broader context of human creation in two ancient mythographical works of myth (Ovid, Apollodorus) and three modern handbooks. In each case the mythographer has been forced to reshape the episodic-one might say disparate and conflicting -nature of her or his sources and invent new connective tissue to organize early mythic time. The authorial voice and narrative aims of all writers attempting to create a coherent and comprehensive account of this period remain operative even in subliterary works such as Apollodorus’ Bibliotheke and render source criticism problematic.
Published Online: 2015-11-3
Published in Print: 2015-11-13
© 2015 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin/Boston
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Masthead
- Preface
- Contents
- In memoriam Walter Burkert (February 2, 1931 – March 11, 2015)
- I. Authoritative Traditions and Ritual Power in the Ancient World
- Introduction: Authoritative Traditions and Ritual Power in the Ancient World
- The Great, the Little, and the Authoritative Tradition in Magic of the Ancient World
- An Anatomy of Tradition: The Case of the Charitêsion
- The Authority of Greek Mythic Narratives in the Magical Papyri
- The Innovative Use of Biblical Traditions for Ritual Power: The Crucifixion of Jesus on a Coptic Exorcistic Spell (Brit. Lib. Or. 6796[4], 6796) as a Test Case
- Sealing the Demons, Once and For All: The Ring of Solomon, the Cross of Christ, and the Power of Biblical Kingship
- II. New Directions in the Study of Myth
- Ishtar Rejected: Reading a Mesopotamian Goddess in the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite
- Ancient Wilderness Mythologies—The Case of Space and Religious Identity Formation in the Gospel of Matthew
- The Self-sacrifice of Menoeceus in Euripides’ Phoenissae, II Maccabees and Statius’ Thebaid
- Early Histories Written in Stone: Epigraphy and Mythical Narratives
- Lost Epics and Newly Found Vases: Sources for the Sack of Troy
- Bundling Myth, Bungling Myth: The Flood Myth in Ancient and Modern Handbooks of Myth
- Echo and the Historiola: Theorizing the Narrative Incantation
- III. Varia
- Popular Hatred Against Christians: the Case of North Africa in the Second and Third Centuries
- Aperçus sur la religion romaine de l’époque républicaine, à travers les comédies de Plaute
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Masthead
- Preface
- Contents
- In memoriam Walter Burkert (February 2, 1931 – March 11, 2015)
- I. Authoritative Traditions and Ritual Power in the Ancient World
- Introduction: Authoritative Traditions and Ritual Power in the Ancient World
- The Great, the Little, and the Authoritative Tradition in Magic of the Ancient World
- An Anatomy of Tradition: The Case of the Charitêsion
- The Authority of Greek Mythic Narratives in the Magical Papyri
- The Innovative Use of Biblical Traditions for Ritual Power: The Crucifixion of Jesus on a Coptic Exorcistic Spell (Brit. Lib. Or. 6796[4], 6796) as a Test Case
- Sealing the Demons, Once and For All: The Ring of Solomon, the Cross of Christ, and the Power of Biblical Kingship
- II. New Directions in the Study of Myth
- Ishtar Rejected: Reading a Mesopotamian Goddess in the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite
- Ancient Wilderness Mythologies—The Case of Space and Religious Identity Formation in the Gospel of Matthew
- The Self-sacrifice of Menoeceus in Euripides’ Phoenissae, II Maccabees and Statius’ Thebaid
- Early Histories Written in Stone: Epigraphy and Mythical Narratives
- Lost Epics and Newly Found Vases: Sources for the Sack of Troy
- Bundling Myth, Bungling Myth: The Flood Myth in Ancient and Modern Handbooks of Myth
- Echo and the Historiola: Theorizing the Narrative Incantation
- III. Varia
- Popular Hatred Against Christians: the Case of North Africa in the Second and Third Centuries
- Aperçus sur la religion romaine de l’époque républicaine, à travers les comédies de Plaute
