Paradoxography

A collection of posts making new translations of ancient traditions of paradoxography available online.

 

Paradoxographus Florentinus: Mirabilia de Aquis

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

 

Paradoxographus Palatinus: Admiranda

Part 1 (1-10)

Part 2 (11-21)

 

Paradoxographus Vaticanus: Admiranda

Section 2, Krokotta

Sections 4-8

Sections 10-13

Sections 15, 16, 17, 24 (Miraculous Misogyny)

Sections 18-22, Rivers

Sections 25-28, 45: Marriage Customs

Sections 14, 23, 29, 30

Sections 31-32: Shape Shifters

Sections 33-38

Sections 39-45

Sections 46-50

Sections 51-55

Sections 56-62

 

Phlegon of Tralles, de Mirabilibus

Omens and Infanticide (2)

Roman Omens and Prophesying Heads (3)

Teiresias (4)

Sex Change of Kaineus (5)

Four Intersex Stories

On Multiple Births (28-32)

Heraclitus Paradoxographus

7, 15, 16: Pasiphae, Chimaera, Circe

34: On Lamia

 

Antigonous Paradoxographus

Historiae Mirabiles 12

 

Apollonios Paradoxographus, Historiae Mirabiles

Wonders 1, 2, 4 and 5

Wonder 3: Hermotimos

Wonder 6: Pythagoras

Wonders 7-12

Wonders 13-20

Wonders 21-27

Wonders 21-35

Wonders 36-39

Wonders 40-45

Wonders 46-51