sources: SRC_APOLLODORUS_LIBRARY

The sources grounding every entity classification and relationship in the database (live count on the home page and in v_release_metrics). Primary texts include the Pyramid Texts (c. 2375 BCE), Homer, Hesiod, Herodotus, the Masoretic Text, Nag Hammadi corpus, Avesta, Ginza Rba, the Chaldean Oracles, the Corpus Hermeticum, Quran, and more. Secondary scholarship covers standard academic monographs for each tradition.

This data as json

source_id title url source_type scope
SRC_APOLLODORUS_LIBRARY Pseudo-Apollodorus, Library (Bibliotheca) (1st-2nd century CE); trans. Robin Hard (Oxford World's Classics, OUP 2008)   primary text The most comprehensive surviving ancient handbook of Greek mythology; three books systematically covering the genealogies of the gods (Titans, Olympians, and their offspring), the mythological cycle from the Theogony forward, and the great hero cycles: Perseus, Heracles (twelve labors and full career), Theseus, Jason and the Argonauts, the Theban cycle (Cadmus through Oedipus), the Trojan War, and the Nostoi (returns of the heroes). The Library is the standard secondary compendium for ancient mythographic tradition; it does not itself record lost myths but assembles and harmonizes material from earlier sources (Hesiod, the cyclic epics, Pherecydes, Hellanicus, Acusilaus). Pseudo-Apollodorus is by convention attributed to the scholar Apollodorus of Athens (2nd c. BCE) but was likely composed later; the work is the foundational reference for genealogical claims about virtually every named entity in the Greek tradition.

Links from other tables