Editing Bibliotheca (Apollodorus) (section)

== Scholarship ==
The ''Bibliotheca'' has been referenced in scholarship throughout history. As a mythographical work it has influenced scholarship on Greek mythology.<ref>{{harvtxt|Diller|1935|loc=pp. [https://www.jstor.org/stable/283301?seq=1 296], [https://www.jstor.org/stable/283301?seq=5 300]}}.</ref> An [[epigram]] recorded by the important intellectual Patriarch Photius I of Constantinople expressed its purpose:<ref group="lower-roman">Victim of its own suggestions, the [[Epigraph (literature)|epigraph]], ironically, does not survive in the manuscripts. For the classic examples of [[epitome]]s and [[encyclopedia]]s substituting in Christian hands for the literature of [[Classical Antiquity]] itself, see [[Isidore of Seville]]'s ''[[Etymologiae]]'' and [[Martianus Capella]].</ref><blockquote>It has the following not ungraceful epigram: 'Draw your knowledge of the past from me and read the ancient tales of learned [[Folklore|lore]]. Look neither at the page of [[Homer]], nor of [[Elegiacs|elegy]], nor [[Greek tragedy|tragic muse]], nor [[Epic poetry|epic strain]]. Seek not the vaunted verse of the [[Epic Cycle|cycle]]; but look in me and you will find in me all that the world contains'.</blockquote>Photius is one of the first surviving reviews of the use of the ''Bibliotheca'' in the field.<ref name=":15"/> Throughout the 12th and 13th centuries CE, the ''Bibliotheca'' was referred to in scholarship about Ancient Greece most often found in letters from scholars of the time.<ref name=":15" /> Much of the modern scholarship on the work has focused on the interpretation of its manuscripts by various translators and compilers of the ''Bibliotheca'' in later editions.<ref name=":15" /><ref name=":22"/> A critical view of past interpretations, compilations, and organization has also been a source of contention. The sources of information that may have informed the creation of the ''Bibliotheca'' are also studied in the modern scholarship.<ref name=":22" /> The question of authorship is another area of study that has shaped the interpretation of the work throughout history.<ref name=":06"/>