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152:, also covered mythology, but with a quite different approach; some scholars have proposed identifying them, but it may be more likely that this manuscript has been attributed to that Heraclitus by a copyist, and the original author's name is lost. 69:
of a longer work. Nothing is known of the author, although he appears to belong to the late 1st or 2nd century AD. He is unlikely to be any of the other men of the name of Heraclitus known from antiquity. The 12th-century
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The text includes thirty-nine items in which familiar myths are briefly recounted and explained. Heraclitus has four methods of explanation, all prominent in late
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contains an important chapter on Heraclitus which surveys his use of rationalizing and allegorizing approaches.
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and Roman interpretations: rationalization (that the myth represents a misunderstanding of a natural event),
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Vatican Ms 305. The manuscript contains a mixed repertory of works on Homeric and mythological subjects.
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Noted by Jacob Stern, "Heraclitus the Paradoxographer: Περὶ Ἀπίστων, 'On Unbelievable Tales
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Jacob Stern, "Heraclitus the Paradoxographer: Περὶ Ἀπίστων, 'On Unbelievable Tales'"
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with the same title, mentioned more often in antiquity.
202:.3 (December 1956), pp. 131–137. The better-known 195:
George F. Osmun, "Palaephatus. Pragmatic Mythographer"
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Transactions of the American Philological Association
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Transactions of the American Philological Association
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Greek
Palaephatus
paradoxography
Greek mythology
Christian
apologists
Vatican Library
epitome
Byzantine
Homer
Eustathius of Thessalonica
sic
Hellenistic
euhemerism
allegory
etymology
exegesis
theologians
Late Antiquity
Heraclitus
Μυθογράφοι: Scriptores Poeticae Historiae Graeci
313-320
ISBN
9780199672776
Categories
2nd-century Greek people
2nd-century writers
Greek mythology
Ancient Greek writers

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