Pseudo-apollodorus

The author of the "Library" (the name "Mythological Library" is accepted in historical literature) is a work in three volumes, which is a large collection of traditional Greek mythology and heroic legends. The "library" today is one of the most important sources in Greek mythology. Only part of this work has been preserved, but not in the original, but rewritten for the library of Cardinal Vissarion in the 15th century. The work was first published in Rome in 1555 by Benedetto Edgio .

Apollodorus is mentioned in several places in the Library as its author. Nevertheless, a detailed analysis of the text showed that this Apollodorus (a name common in ancient Greece) could not be the famous grammar Apollodorus of Athens, in particular, because the Roman author Castor of Rhodes , a contemporary of Cicero , is quoted in the text. For this reason, the author of the text is called “Pseudo-Apollodorus,” since the science of him no longer has any data. .

• Apollodorus Grammar of the Athenian , Library, or On the Gods / Per. A. Barkova, with a foreword. F. Prokopovich. - M., 1725.
• Apollodorus of Athenaic fabulous, or the Library of the Gods, book I and II / Per. V.S. Podshivalova. - M., 1787. - 143 p.
• Apollodorus . Mythological library / Transl., Art. and approx. V. G. Borukhovich. Repl. ed. Y. M. Borovsky. - L .: Nauka , 1972.- 216 p. - ( Literary monuments ). - 50,000 copies. available text
• Apollodorus. Mythological library / Per., Foreword. and comm. A. Shaposhnikova. - M .: Eksmo , 2006 .-- 413 p. - (Anthology of wisdom). - ISBN 5-699-18359-0 .

In foreign languages

• Online Text: Apollodorus The Library translated by JG Frazer segmented text with copious footnotes
• Online Text: Apollodorus The Library translated by JG Frazer condensed text (4 pgs)
• Apollodorus of athens and the bibliotheca
• In the Loeb Classical Library series, the work was published under nos. 121 and 122 (text and English translation by Fraser): volume 1 ; Volume 2

• Diller, Aubrey. The Text History of the Bibliotheca of Pseudo-Apollodorus (English) // TAPA. - 1935. - No. 66 . - P. 296-313 . Archived July 22, 2012.
• Diller, Aubrey. Studies in Greek Manuscript Tradition . - Amsterdam: AM Hakkert, 1983 .-- P. 199-216. - ISBN 9789025608378 .
• Hard, Robin. The library of Greek mythology. - Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008 .-- ISBN 9780199536320 .
• Apollodorus 'Library and Hyginus' Fabulae: Two Handbooks of Greek Mythology / transl., With introd., By R. Scott Smith and Stephen M. Trzaskoma. - Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 2007 .-- ISBN 9780872208209 .