The field of mythography has grown substantially in the past thirty years, an acknowledgment of the importance of how ancient writers "wrote down the myths" as they systematized, organized and interpreted the vast and contested mythical storyworld. With the understanding that mythography remains a contested category, that its borders are not always clear, and that it shifted with changes in the socio-cultural and political landscapes, The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Mythography offers a range of scholarly voices that attempt to establish how and to what extent ancient writers followed the "mythographical mindset" that prompted works ranging from Apollodorus' Library to the rationalizing and allegorical approaches of Cornutus and Palaephatus.
Editors R. Scott Smith and Stephen M. Trzaskoma provide the first comprehensive survey of mythography from the earliest attempts to organize and comment on myths in the archaic period (in poetry and prose) to late antiquity. The essays also provide an overview of those writers we call mythographers and other major sources of mythographic material (e.g., papyri and scholia), followed by a series of essays that seek to explore the ways in which mythographical impulses were interconnected with other intellectual activities (e.g., geography and history, catasteristic writings, politics). In addition, another section of essays presents the first sustained analysis between mythography and the visual arts, while a final section takes mythography from late antiquity up into the Renaissance. While also taking stock of recent advances and providing bibliographical guidance, this Handbook offers new approaches to texts that were once seen only as derivative sources of mythical data and presents innovative ideas for further research. The Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Mythography is an essential resource for teachers, scholars, and students alike.

R. Scott Smith is Professor of Classics at the University of New Hampshire, where he has taught since 2000. His major field of study is ancient myth and mythography, with special focus on the intersection of mythography, space, and geography. He is currently co-director of a Greek mythical database (MANTO): https://manto.unh.edu. He also produces the podcast, The Greek Myth Files.
Stephen M. Trzaskoma is Professor of Classics in the Department of Classics, Humanities & Italian Studies at the University of New Hampshire, where he has been a faculty member since 1999. He has published widely on two areas of ancient Greek literature and culture: first, prose fiction, especially the surviving novels from the Roman imperial period; second, Greek mythical narrative and mythography.

Introduction
R. Scott Smith and Stephen M. Trzaskoma
Section 1: Mythography from Archaic Greece to the Empire
1. The Mythographical Impulse in Early Greek Poetry
Pura Nieto
2. The Origins of Mythography as a Genre
Jordi Pàmias
3. Hellenistic Mythography
R. Scott Smith and Stephen M. Trzaskoma
4. Imperial Mythography
Charles Delattre, translated by Alexander Brock
5. Mythography in Latin
R. Scott Smith
Section 2: Mythographers
6. Mythography in Alexandrian Verse
Evina Sistakou
7. Antihomerica: Dares and Dictys
Ken Dowden
8. Antoninus Liberalis, Collection of Metamorphoses
Charles Delattre, translated by Alexander Brock
9. Apollodorus the Mythographer, Bibliotheca
Stephen M. Trzaskoma
10. Conon, Narratives
Manuel Sanz Morales
11. Cornutus, Survey of the Traditions of Greek Theology
Ilaria Ramelli
12. Diodorus Siculus, Library
Iris Sulimani
13. Heraclitus the Mythographer, On Unbelievable Stories
Greta Hawes
14. Heraclitus the Allegorist, Homeric Problems
David Konstan
15. Hyginus, Fabulae
Kris Fletcher
16. The Mythographus Homericus
Joan Pagès
17. Other Mythography on Papyrus
Annette Harder
18. Greek Mythography and Scholia
Nereida Villagra
19. Ovid and Mythography
Joseph Farrell
20. Palaphaetus, Unbelievable Tales
Hugo Koning
21. Parthenius, Erotika Pathemata
Christopher Francese
22. Pausanias, Description of Greece
William Hutton
23. Tragic Mythography
Chiara Meccariello
Section 3: Interpretations and Intersections
24. Rationalizing and Historicizing
Greta Hawes
25. Allegorising and Philosophising
Ilaria Ramelli
26. Etymologizing
Ezio Pellizer, translated by R. Scott Smith and Stephen M. Trzaskoma
27. Catasterisms
Arnaud Zucker
28. Local Mythography
Daniel Berman
29. Mythography and Paradoxography
Irene Pajón Leyra
30. Mythography and Education
R. Scott Smith and Stephen M. Trzaskoma
31. Mythography and Politics
Lee Patterson
32. Mythography and Geography
Maria Pretzler
33. Mythographer and Mythography: Indigenous Categories? Greek Inquiries into the Heroic Past
Claude Calame, translated by R. Scott Smith and Stephen M. Trzaskoma
Section 4: Mythography and Visual Arts

34. Mythography and Greek Vase Painting
Kathryn Topper
35. Mythography and Roman Wall Painting
Eleanor Leach
36. Retelling Greek Myths on Roman Sarcophagi
Zahra Newby
Section 5: Christian Mythography
37. Mythography and Christianity
Jennifer Nimmo Smith
38. Byzantine Mythography
Benjamin Garstad
39. Mythography in the Latin West
Benjamin Garstad
40. Mythography and the Reception of Classical Mythology in the Renaissance, 1340-1600
Jon Solomon