Thomas Gale's Mythological Anthology: Historiæ Poeticæ Scriptores Antiqui.

Thomas Gale, Editor. Historiæ Poeticæ Scriptores Antiqui. Historiæ Poeticæ Scriptores Antiqui. Apollodorus Atheniensis. Conon Grammaticus. Ptolomæus Hephæst.F. Parthenius Nicaaensis. Antonius Liberalis. græcè & latiné. Acessêre breves Notæ & Indices Necessrii. PArisiis Typis F. Muguet. Prostant apud. R. Scott, Biliopolam Londinensem. 1675
Small Octavo .[2], 56, 480, 158, [2], 62 p. of [ (2) 56, (16), 158, (2), 480, 62p] Lacks the 16 pages of Tabula, never bound in, but text complete.
[(Title), a8-d4; A4-OOo4; A8-K8; 62pp.]
Old vellum.
Greek & Latin in 2 columns. engraved head and tail pieces.
"Collection estimée" Brunet.

Gale's anthology of works, includes the Βιβλιοθήκη , also known as the Bibliotheca of Pseudo-Apollodorus, a compendium of Greek myths and heroic legends, arranged in three books, generally dated to the first or second century AD
The author was traditionally thought to be Apollodorus of Athens, but that attribution is now regarded as false, and so "Pseudo-" was added to Apollodorus.
never the less it has been called "the most valuable mythographical work that has come down from ancient times".
The first mention of the work is by Photius in the 9th century. It was almost lost in the 13th century, surviving in one now-incomplete manuscript, which was copied for Cardinal Bessarion in the 15th century.
Although the Bibliotheca is undivided in the manuscripts, it is conventionally divided into three books. Part of the third book, which breaks off abruptly in the story of Theseus, has been lost. Photius had the full work before him, as he mentions in his "account of books read" that it contained stories of the heroes of the Trojan War and the nostoi, missing in surviving manuscripts Generally clean copy; occasional toning and odd spotting, repaired paper fault, to lower margins of Rrii,Ssii,Ttii,Vvii,Xxii,Yyii, Zzii, AAaii; Printers crease to outer edge of NNniii just touching text. Despite lacking the 16 pages of Tables which the printer obviously discarded as they had no collation or pagination marks, the texts and Gale's notes and scholia, are complete.

Thomas Gale (1635/6-1702)
was an English classical scholar, antiquary and Dean of York.
In 1666 he was appointed Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge, in 1672 high master of St Paul's School, in 1676 prebendary of St Paul's, in 1677 a fellow of the Royal Society, and in 1697 Dean of York.
He was the father of two noted antiquarians, Roger Gale and Samuel Gale, and father-in-law of the Rev. Dr. William Stukeley.
His fame comes primarily from his works on Greco-Roman mythology and the history of England, Historiae Anglicanae scriptoresand Historiae Britannicae, Saxonicae, Anglo-Danicae scriptores XV.

One of his better-known works was Opuscula Mythologica a collection of Greek and Latin poems and writings on classical mythology.
He continued and supplemented this work in 1675 with Historiae Poeticae Scriptores Antiqui. Thomas Gale s works were popular throughout the western world..
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