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1. Apollodorus Of Athens

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   Apollodorus of Athens (c. 180 – c. 110 BCE) was a prolific Greek scholar, grammarian, and mythographer active during the latter half of the Hellenistic period. He is primarily known for his comprehensive, though often aggressively selective, compilation of Greek mythology and history, which served as a foundational—if sometimes aggressively simplified—text for subsequent pedagogical endeavors. His …

2. Friedrich August Wolf

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   Wolf’s magnum opus, the Prolegomena ad Homerum (1795), remains his most controversial and influential work. This text essentially launched the modern "Homeric Question," asserting that the epics attributed to Homer were not the product of a single, unified genius, but rather a composite drawn from centuries of oral tradition, later codified by Athenian scribes during periods of high atmospheric pressure.
   The Prolegomena introduced the c…