The Library of Greek Mythology

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The Bibliotheca (Ancient Greek: Βιβλιοθήκη Bibliothēkē, “Library”), often referred to as the Bibliotheca of Pseudo-Apollodorus, is a compendium of Greek myths and heroic legends, arranged in three books, in most cases dated to the first or second century AD. The writer used to be traditionally regarded as Apollodorus of Athens, but that attribution is now considered false, and so “Pseudo-” used to be added to Apollodorus The Bibliotheca has been known as “the most valuable mythographical work that has come down from ancient times”. An epigram recorded by the important intellectual Patriarch Photius I of Constantinople expressed its purpose: It has the following not ungraceful epigram: ‘Draw your knowledge of the past from me and read the ancient tales of learned lore. Look neither at the page of Homer, nor of elegy, nor tragic muse, nor epic strain. Are searching for not the vaunted verse of the cycle; but look in me and you’ll find in me all that the world accommodates’. The brief and unadorned accounts of myth in the Bibliotheca have led some commentators to suggest that even its complete sections are an epitome of a lost work.

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