Book I of the First Vatican Mythographer: introductory study, translation and notes
Vatican mythographers; First Mythographer; Translation.
In order to contribute to the study and translation of literary works from late Antiquity and the Middle Ages that are under development at the Federal University of Bahia, in the Postgraduate Program in Literature and Culture, the present work consists of presenting the first proposal of translation into Portuguese of the work known as the First Vatican Mythographer, Book I, whose author is anonymous. The work, which is part of the group known as Mythographi Vaticani, is a compilation of classic myths that, during the Middle Ages, were reinterpreted in the light of Christian moral philosophy. The translation is accompanied by notes and an introductory study in which is approached the mythographic genre and the survival of ancient myths through interpretations (evemerist, physical, psychological and moral), and which also is discussed the handwritten tradition, the printed tradition, and the sources used by the mythographer.