Editing Bibliotheca (Apollodorus) (section)

== Overview ==
The ''Bibliotheca'' of Pseudo-Apollodorus is a comprehensive collection of myths, genealogies and histories that presents a continuous history of [[Greek mythology]] from the earliest gods and the origin of the world to the death of [[Odysseus]].<ref name=":06">{{harvtxt|Aldrich|1975|pp=1–4}}.</ref> The narratives are organized by genealogy, chronology and geography in summaries of myth.<ref name=":06"/><ref>Fletcher, K. F. B. 2008. "Systematic Genealogies in Apollodorus’ Bibliotheca and the Exclusion of Rome from Greek Myth." ''Classical Antiquity'' 27:59–91. {{JSTOR|10.1525/ca.2008.27.1.59}}.</ref> The myths are sourced from a wide number of sources like early epic, early Hellenistic poets, and mythographical summaries of tales.<ref name=":06"/> [[Homer]] and [[Hesiod]] are the most frequently named along with other poets.<ref name=":22">Kenens, Ulrike. 2011. "The Sources of Ps.-Apollodorus' Library: A Case Study." ''Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica'' 97:129–46. {{JSTOR|23048902}}.</ref> Oral tradition and the plays written by [[Aeschylus]], [[Sophocles]] and [[Euripides]] also factored into the compilation of myth in the ''Bibliotheca''.<ref name=":06"/><ref>Huys, Marc. 1997. "Euripides and the Tales from Euripides: Sources of Apollodoros' Bibliotheca?" ''Rheinisches Museum'' 140 308–27.</ref> The ''Bibliotheca'' was written in the first or second century CE by an author who is referred to as Pseudo-Apollodorus to differentiate from Apollodorus of Athens, who did not write the ''Bibliotheca''.<ref name=":15">Diller, Aubrey. 1983. "The Text History of the Bibliotheca of Pseudo-Apollodorus." Pp. 199–216 in ''Studies in Greek Manuscript Tradition,'' edited by A. Diller. Amsterdam: A. M. Hakkert.</ref> Most extant manuscripts of the text end during the narration of [[Theseus]]'s exploits, with there surviving only two codices, discovered in the 19th century, which transmit the remainder of the work.<ref name=":06"/> In the later scholarship it is used as a reference material.<ref name=":06"/>