Palaephatus
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palaephatus-176-3317362
title:
Palaephatus
text:
Palaephatus was the author of a rationalizing text on Greek mythology, the paradoxographical work On Incredible Things, which survives in a Byzantine edition. This work consists of an introduction and 52 brief sections on various Greek myths. The first 45 have a common format: a brief statement of a wonder tale from Greek mythology, usually followed by a claim of disbelief, and then a sequence of every-day occurrences which gave rise to the wonder-story through misunderstanding. The last seven a
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wiki
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Ancient Greek author
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palaephatus
date created:
2005-11-20T21:36:23Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T19:18:44Z
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