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Palaephatus

Palaephatus (Ancient Greek: ) was the author of a rationalizing text on Greek mythology, the paradoxographical work On Incredible Things (; ), which survives in a (probably corrupt) Byzantine edition.

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Palaephati De incredibilibus historiis

Le cose incredibili, trad. ed illustr. da Giovanni Veludo

Palaiphatu peri Apistōn :Ad Illvstres VVratislaviensis Reip. Scholarchas; Et Excellentissimos Scholarvm Ibid. Inspectores ... = Palaephati De Incredibilibvs

Palaiphatu Peri Apistōn = Palaephati De Incredibilibus

Palaiphatu Apista :Novis Animadversionibus, Nec Non Doctrinis Moralibus, Ut Et Indicibus Necessariis, Inclytae Reip. Wratisl. Scholarum Patronis & Inspect. inscripta, in usum gymnasiorum & academiarum = Palaephati De Incredibilibvs

Palaephati De incredibilibus :graece ; ad fidem cod. ms. mosquensis alio rumque et libri aldini denuo recensuit emendavit explicavit indicemque verborum graecorum copiosissimum

Palaephati De Incredibilibvs Historiis

Palaiphatu peri Apistōn : Ad Illustres Wratislaviensis Reip. Scholarchas; Et ... Scholarum Ibidem Inspectores. Cum Interpretatione Latina Cornelii Tollii, & Annotationibus Martini Brunneri, denuo recensuit, & Animadversiones novas hinc inde inspersit, nec non Doctrinas Morales, genuinos itidem rerum & verborum Indices, ... adiecit digessitque Paulus Pater, ...

Le premier livre des narrations fabuleuses avec les discours de la verite et histoire d'icelles, trad. par Guillaume Gueroult, auquel nous avons adjouste aucunes oeuvres poetiques du traducteur

F. P. Fulgentii Christiani Philosophi Mythologiarum libri tres ... Palaephatus de fabulis supra fidem confictis

Von den unglaublichen Begebenheiten. Aus dem Griechischen übersetzt, und mit mythologischen Anmerkungen begleitet von Johann David Büchling

De Incredibilibus. Edidit, notasque ... adjecit Martinus Brunnerus

Fabularum Liber ... nunc denuo excusus. Ejusdem Poeticon Astronomicon Libri IV. Quibus accesserunt ... Palaephati de fabularis narrationibus Liber I. F. Fulgentii ... Mythologiarum Libri III. (etc.)

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Contents

''On Incredible Things''
The author's identity and the ''Suda'' entries
"Palaephatus of Athens"
"Palaephatus of Paros"
"Palaephatus of Abydos"
"Palaephatus the Egyptian"
One author behind these traditions
References in ancient literature
Transmission of the text
Modern editions
See also
Notes
References
External links

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 ("This is absurd" or "This is not likely" or "The true version is..."), and then a sequence of every-day occurrences which gave rise to the wonder-story through misunderstanding. The last seven are equally brief retellings of myth, without any rationalizing explanation.