This article is a revised and developed version of a paper presented at the New York University Classics Graduate Student Conference "Ancient Aitia: Explaining Matter between Belief and Knowledge" (New York University, New York, 2011-12-03).
As examples: Parthenios, Sufrimientos de amor y fragmentos, E. CALDERÓN DORDA (ed.), Madrid, CSIC, 1988
Parthenius of Nicaea, Erotika Pathemata = The Love Stories of Parthenius, J. STERN (ed.), New York, Garland, 1992
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D. PORTE, L'étiologie religieuse dans les Fastes d'Ovide, Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 1985, p. 35.
M. CHASSIGNET, "Étiologie, étymologie et éponymie chez Cassius Hemina: mécanismes et fonction", LEC, 66, 1998, p. 322.
For a detailed overview of the reasons of the development of etiology at the time of Callimachus, see: K. S. MYERS, Ovid's Causes: Cosmogony and Aetiology in the Metamorphoses, Ann Arbor, The University of Michigan Press, 1994, pp. 16-21.
J. F. MILLER, Roman Elegiac "Aitia": Propertius IV and Ovid's "Fasti" in Light of the Poetry of Callimachus, Chapel Hill, The University of North Carolina, 1978, p. 2.
On this point, we disagree with D. Voisin who found ten etiological stories (in D. VOISIN, "Dispositio et stratégies littéraires dans les Erotica Pathémata", in A. ZUCKER, op. cit., p. 65).
These naming formulae are clearly described by A. MICHALOPOULOS in his introduction Ancient Etymologies in Ovid's Metamorphoses: a Commented Lexicon, Leeds, Francis Cairns, 2001, pp. 1-12.
On the causal circumstance of participle: W. W. GOODWIN, Syntax of the Moods and Tenses of the Greek Verb, London, Macmillan and Co, 1889, pp. 334-335
J. HUMBERT, Syntaxe grecque, Paris, Klincksieck, 1954, p. 130.
J. L. LIGHTFOOT, op. cit., p. 345; K. BRODERSEN, Liebesleiden in der Antike: Die 'Erotika Pathemata' des Parthenios, Darmstadt, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, 2000, p. 81; M. BIRAUD - D. VOISIN - A. ZUCKER, op. cit., p. 191.
On the permanent structure in the fairy-tale: V. PROPP, Morphology of the Folktale, Austin, University of Texas Press, 1968, pp. 19-24.
For a summary of the variants of the stories about Heracles after the cattle of Geryon episode: P. GRIMAL, Dictionnaire de la mythologie grecque et romaine, Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1951, s.v. "Héraclès", pp. 193-194.
Euphorion was the main model of Cornelius Gallus but it is probable that Calhmachus also inspired the Latin poet. Cf. J.-P. BOUCHER, Caius Cornélius Gallus, Paris, Les Belles Lettres, 1966, pp. 77-83
E. FANTHAM, "Roman Elegy: Problems of Self-definition, and Redirection", in L'histoire littéraire immanente dans la poésie latine - Entretiens sur l'Antiquité classique de la Fondation Hardt, E. A. ERNST (ed.), Genève, Droz, 2002, pp. 186-189.
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A. ZUCKER, op. cit., p. 259. Furthermore, I have shown that Parthenius did not blame the incestuous relation in itself if some conditions were respected (no violence, no trap, no rape), see M. VANDERSMISSEN, "L'inceste dans les Métamorphoses d'Ovide, un thème emprunté à Parthénios de Nicée?" Latomus, 71, 2012, 1015-1025.
