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.
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.
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.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).