On Apollodori Bibliotheca

Abstract

The author particularly studies the character of Bibliotheca and its relation to its sources. He thinks that the book was originally destined for a youthful public, as he tries to prove from a number of instances which show the author' s love of decency. He then enters on the modern views and thinks that Bibliotheca has been underestimated. He shows that the pre-Byzantine Scholia of Homer, of the Tragedians, etc. have made extensive use of it and that already at an early date the work was ascribed to Apollodorus. In his opinion, Bibliotheca has not made such an extensive and mechanical use of general manuals, as critics are mostly inclined to think. To this end he especially investigates the relation of Bibliotheca to Pherecydes, Akousilaos and Hellanicus. He tries to find traces and fragments of them in Bibliotheca. In this connection he also studies the Historiai of the Homeric D Scholia. He proposes as a hypothetical date the first century A. D.

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