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Greek Mythology in Byzantine Art
ISBN: 9781400857425
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Princeton University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: ILLUMINATION OF BOOKS AND MANUSCRIPTS BYZANTINE; IVORIES BYZANTINE; MYTHOLOGY GREEK IN ART;

Kurt Weitzmann demonstrates that the postulated miniatures of the handbook that goes under the name of Apollodorus migrated into other texts, of which the commentary of Pseudo-Nonnus--attached to several homilies of Gregory of Nazianzus--and the Cynegetka of Pseudo-Oppian are the most important.

Originally published in 1984.

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