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The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Mythography is the first comprehensive examination of ancient writings that systematized and interpreted the mythical tradition, providing an authoritative overview from the archaic period to the Renaissance.

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 greate...