The Library, Volume I by Apollodorus
Antiquity’s most influential mythological handbook.
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 ca. 180 BC), 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.
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A Loeb Classical Library Reader
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Iliad, Volume I
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The Persian Wars, Volume I
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Astronomica
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On the Nature of Things
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Greek Lyric, Volume I
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Birds. Lysistrata. Women at the Thesmophoria
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Theogony. Works and Days. Testimonia
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Tusculan Disputations
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Metaphysics, Volume I
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Metamorphoses, Volume I
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Rhetorica ad Herennium
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Anabasis
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Odes and Epodes
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Gallic War
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Lives of the Caesars, Volume II
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Marcus Aurelius
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Anabasis of Alexander, Volume I
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On Old Age. On Friendship. On Divination
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The Shield. Catalogue of Women. Other Fragments
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Cyclops. Alcestis. Medea
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Lives, Volume VII
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Philippics 16
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In Catilinam 14. Pro Murena. Pro Sulla. Pro Flacco
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Metamorphoses (The Golden Ass), Volume I
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Dionysiaca, Volume I
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Acharnians. Knights
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The Orator's Education, Volume I
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Civil Wars
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Tragedies, Volume II
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Categories. On Interpretation. Prior Analytics
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Letters to Friends, Volume I
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On the Orator: Books 12
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Antigone. Women of Trachis. Philoctetes. Oedipus at Colonus
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The Apostolic Fathers, Volume I
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780674991354 |
| ISBN 10 | 0674991354 |
| Title | The Library, Volume I |
| Author | Apollodorus |
| Series | Loeb Classical Library |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Harvard University Press |
| Year published | 1921-01-01 |
| Number of pages | 464 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |