Local Mythography

Abstract

Abstract “Local mythography” is a problematic category, though there is little question that many surviving mythographical texts could be defined as such. This chapter begins with a theoretical discussion that seeks to contextualize both the “local” and “mythic” components of the concept and continues by examining two case studies: one an early “local” mythographer by the name of Armenidas, and the other the tradition of “Atthidography,” the chronicling of Athenian myth and history begun by the mythographer Hellanicus. “Local mythography” must be distinguished from “local historiography” (a concept championed by the great Felix Jacoby) and from more universal expositions of myth in prose (for example, “Panhellenic” mythography such as the Library of Ps.-Apollodorus, and even “ethnography”).

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