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Hyginus was born in c. 64 BC in Alexandria, Egypt.
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Fabulae: Edidit Bernh. Bunte...
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Apollodorus' Library and Hyginus' Fabulae: Two Handbooks of Greek Mythology (Hackett Classics)
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By offering, for the first time in a single edition, complete English translations of Apollodorus' Library and Hyginus' Fabulae--the two most important surviving "handbooks" of classical mythography--this volume enables readers to compare the two's versions of the most important Greek and Roman myths. A General Introduction sets the Library and Fabulae into the wider context of ancient mythography; introductions to each text discuss in greater detail issues of authorship, aim, and influence. A general index, an index of people and geographic locations, and an index of authors and works cited by the mythographers are also included.
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Gaius Julius Hyginus
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Hyginus was a pupil of the famous Cornelius Alexander Polyhistor.
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Hyginus was a freedman of Augustus, by whom he was made superintendent of the Palatine library. He is said to have fallen into great poverty in his old age, and to have been supported by the historian Clodius Licinus. He was a voluminous author, and his works included topographical and biographical treatises, commentaries on Helvius Cinna and the poems of Virgil, and disquisitions on agriculture and bee-keeping. All these are lost. Under the name of Hyginus there are extant what are probably two sets of school notes abbreviating his treatises on mythology; one is a collection of Fabulae ("stories"), the other a "Poetical Astronomy", containing an elementary treatise on astronomy and the myths connected with the stars. His other work, Fabularum Liber, some 300 mythological legends and celestial genealogies, valuable for the use made by the author of the works of Greek tragedians now lost. Both are abridgments and both are by the same hand; but the style and Latinity and the elementary mistakes (especially in the rendering of the Greek originals) are held to prove that they cannot have been the work of so distinguished a scholar as C. Julius Hyginus. It is suggested that these treatises are an abridgment of the Genealogiae of Hyginus by an unknown grammarian, who added a complete treatise on mythology.
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Hyginus was a Latin author and scholar who, according to Suetonius, was appointed by Augustus superintendent of the Palatine library. He went to Rome from Spain or Alexandria as a slave or perhaps a prisoner of war and was freed by Augustus. He was elected superintendent of the Palatine library by Augustus according to Suetonius' De Grammaticis, 20.
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Apollodorus' Library and Hyginus' Fabulae: Two Handbooks of Greek Mythology (Hackett Classics)
( By offering, for the first time in a single edition, co...)
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Fabulae: Edidit Bernh. Bunte...
( This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923....)
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Apollodorus' Library and Hyginus' Fabulae: Two Handbooks of Greek Mythology (Hackett Classics)
