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Princeton University Press, 1929; a translation of the Preface and books XIV and XV of the foregoing. P. 114 (XV, 6) and its notes on pp. 189–90.
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and naturalistic interpretations of mythology, and philosophic speculations about mythology. He quotes the (also lost) Greek historian
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X 7), so he may have seen some of Theodontius's own writings; sources disagree on this. Some authorities think Boccaccio invented him.
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that Boccaccio's Theodontius was a Campanian philosopher, from between the 9th and 11th centuries.
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was the author of a now lost Latin work on mythology. He was extensively quoted in
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Outside Boccaccio, there was a Theodontius, who wrote on the
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Teodontius Campanus diligens investigator poetici figmenti
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Giovanni Boccaccio
Genealogia Deorum Gentilium
Paul of Perugia
Bathyllus
Phorcys
wars of Troy
Servius
Domenico Bandini
Carlo Landi
euhemeristic
Philochorus
Demogorgon
Pronapides
Giovanni Boccaccio
Genealogie Deorum Gentilicum Libri
Bari
Charles H. Osgood
Jean Seznec
Bollingen Series
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