• Bibliotheca (redirect from Bibliotheke)
    Look up bibliotheca in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Bibliotheca may refer to: Bibliotheca (Pseudo-Apollodorus), a grand summary of traditional Greek...
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    again and then into a mouse. According to the mythographic compendium Bibliotheke, different stories were told of the cause of his blindness, the most...
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    patronage of Aphrodite, and built the great temple to the goddess there. Bibliotheke, the Hellenistic compendium of myth long attributed to Apollodorus, mentions...
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    Cilix who gave his name to Cilicia in Asia Minor, with the author of Bibliotheke including Phoenix as a third. So some interpret this as her brother Phoenix...
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    trident was forged by the Cyclopes according to Pseudo-Apollodorus's Bibliotheke. Poseidon wields his trident on a number of occasions. He used his trident...
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    2018. Diodoros of Sicily: Historiographical Theory and Practice in the Bibliotheke. Peeters: Leuven. McQueen, Earl I. 1995. Diodorus Siculus. The Reign...
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    Library, with an English Translation, 1921), commenting on Bibliotheke 3.1.4. Bibliotheke 3.15.8 Graves, Robert (1960). The Greek Myths. Harmondsworth...
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    The Bibliotheca (Ancient Greek: Βιβλιοθήκη, Bibliothēkē, 'Library'), also known as the Bibliotheca of Pseudo-Apollodorus, is a compendium of Greek myths...
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    sqq; Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica, IV. 16; Ps.-Apollodorus, Bibliotheke, II. 5. 9; Pausanias, Hellados Periegesis, V. 10. 9; Quintus Smyrnaeus...
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    all that survive of Stesichorus' telling; the myth repertory called Bibliotheke ("The Library") contains the gist of the tale, and before that was compiled...
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    Tallaios belongs certainly to the pre-Greek stratum.(p 148) In a note in Bibliothēkē, vanquished by an arrow shot by Poeas to his vulnerable heel; in Argonautica...
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    the source for a passing mention of Pygmalion in Pseudo-Apollodorus' Bibliotheke, a Hellenic mythography of the 2nd-century AD. Perhaps he drew on the...
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    and a herder Eurytion, son of Erytheia. In the fullest account in the Bibliotheke of Pseudo-Apollodorus, Heracles was required to travel to Erytheia, in...
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    "Hesiod, Theogony, line 270". Hesiod, Theogony 281; Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheke 2. 42, et al. Harris, Stephen L. and Gloria Platzner. Classical Mythology:...
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    goddess as "milk-white" Galatea.[clarification needed] The author of Bibliotheke gives the genealogy. Pygmalion was so devoted to the cult of Aphrodite...
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  • backstory to the matter being discussed at hand, as in Pseudo-Apollodorus' Bibliotheke. In the Middle Ages, the excursus is a favourite rhetorical device to...
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    survives in the Christian acheiropoieta. Bibliotheke iii.144. Bibliotheke, iii.10.1, iii.12.1 and 3. Bibliotheke iii.145. Scholia on Euripides Phoenissae...
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    Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheke 1.2. Frazer tr. (1921), 1:11; text version via Perseus Project. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheke 3.14. Frazer tr. (1921)...
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    transgression: The Hesiodic Catalogue of Women and pseudo-Apollodoran Bibliotheke state that his offense was that he was a rival of Zeus for Semele, his...
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    Library. Greek text available from the same website. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheke I, ix, 16 and III, ix,2 and xii, 6- xiii,7; Epitome vi, 13. Apollonius...
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    1017/S000983880003127X. JSTOR 639206. S2CID 170272842. Pseudo-Apollodorus, Bibliotheke 1.4.1; Antoninus Liberalis, Metamorphoses, 35, giving as his sources...
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    f. Pg. 16 ft. Complete set of digital images Jerusalem, Patriarchikê bibliothêkê, Panaghiou Taphou 054 Description, List of Contents The New Schaff-Herzog...
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    Estudios Clasicos. pp. fr. 127, pp. 254–255. ISBN 978-84-400-1962-2. The Bibliotheke 1.4.3–1.4.5. This book has come down to us with the name of Apollodorus...
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    Pseudo-Apollodorus (Bibliotheke, 3.182) describes Adonis as the son of Cinyras, of Paphos on Cyprus, and Metharme. According to Pseudo-Apollodorus's Bibliotheke, Hesiod...
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    unclear: he was either a king of Lydia or a river-god. According to Bibliotheke, she was the wife of Tmolus, the oak-clad mountain king of Lydia; after...
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    15–19.Diodorus Siculus. Bibliotheca historica. i.16, iv.61.Apollodorus. Bibliotheke. iii.1, 15. Apollodorus. Bibliotheca. 3.1.4. Hogan, C. Michael (2007)...
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    Typhon, who was himself serpent-like from the waist down, and Echidna (Bibliotheke 2.113; Hyginus, Preface to Fabulae) or of Gaia herself, or in her Olympian...
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    mistress of magical herbal arts in the Greek imagination. The author of Bibliotheke records the fidelity charm she placed upon Minos, who would ejaculate...
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    Sathas, Mesaeonike Bibliotheke, v. 2, p. 99]:"sermone blando, et Craecorum more torrenti simili". Sathas K. N. (1873) Mesaionike Bibliotheke ("Medieval Library")...
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  • Herodotus. Histories, 1.57, 2.51.7, 2.51.12. Herodotus. Histories, 4.145ff. Bibliotheke 2.4.11 records the origin of the Theban tribute as recompense for the...
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