title: Approaches to Greek Myth
author: Lowell Edmunds
description: <P>Well organized, edited and arranged, this text is of unquestioned value to all teachers of mythology, to the advanced student of the classics and to the research scholar, a welcome resource volume.</P> (<i>Classical World</i>)<br /><br /><P>A valuable collection of eight essays representing a variety of approaches useful in the study of Greek myth... Edmunds' book provides a convenient opportunity to grapple with the current methodologies used in the analysis of literature and myth.</P> (Susan Heuck Allen <i>New England Classical Newsletter and Journal</i>)<br /><br /><P>The collection as a whole provides a handy introduction to some of the more useful methodological approaches to and the previous scholarship on the subject of Greek myths and their interpretation. Some articles will certainly interest some readers more than others. Most, however, are provocative, well written, and carefully documented, each contributing to the interpretation of Greek mythology.</P> (Alan Rawn <i>Phoenix</i>)
zlib_text: SHORTER NOTES
  ARISTAGORAS OF MELOS
  Τ Ar. Nub. 830c.α `σιτυαη�σαΚ �η�ξευο Ν�µιοΚ διρφσανβοποι�Κ! �Κ υ1 �ξ �Εµεφτ�ξι
  νφτυ�σια �ωοσγθτ0νεξοΚ λα� �ωειπ�ξ 2τεβ�τυαυοΚ �λσ�ρθ (V).
  idem, 830c.β �πειδ� υιΚ `σιτυαη�σαΚ διρφσανβοποι�Κ Ν�µιοΚ �ωψσγ�ταυο υ1 �Εµεφτ�ξια
  (E).1
  Clearly an error; the Melian alluded to by Aristophanes was, as the other scholia
  make plain, the dithyrambic poet Diagoras, not the otherwise unknown Aristagoras
  (who, however, merits an entry in Holwerda’s index).2 Dover (on Nub. 830) suggests
  that ‘the name . . . may simply be a slip’, but the scholia probably preserve a mutilated
  reference to Aristarchus; cf. Τ Ar. Ra. 320b: � ν�ξ `σ�τυασγοΚ ∆ιαη�σοφ ξ�ξ
  νξθνοξε�ειξ ζθτ�ξ ο�γ �Κ ‘4ιδοξυοΚ’ α�υο� υο�Κ ρεο�Κ! 2µµ� �ξ ε�σψξε�αι
  λειν�ξοφ υο� µ�ηοφ! 2ξυ� υο� ‘γµεφ0�οξυοΚ’! ‘�ωοσγοφν�ξοφ’ (VMEΡBarb[Ald]).3
  Hence read here: `σ�τυ<ασγοΚ ζθτ� �Κ ∆ι>αη�σαΚ λυµ.; the corruption is of a
  familiar type.
  University College Dublin
  J. H. HORDERN
  SOCRATES, SOCRATICS, AND THE WORD ΒΜΕΠΕ∆ΑΙΝΨΞ