Introduzione L’edizionedella Biblioteca pseudoapollodorianadiJamesGeorge Frazerperla Loeb Classical Library segnaunmomentodecisivonella ABSTRACT .Theeditionofthe Library publishedbyJamesGeorgeFrazerinthe1921is stillareferenceeditionintheEnglish-speakingcountriesandplayedanimportantrolein the reception of Apollodorus’s work, that has not been completely recognised. At the sametime,scholarsconsidertheintroductiontothiseditionanimportantdocumentto reconstructthethoughtoftheScottishanthropologistsinceitcontainsthelastreflection onthenatureofthemythswrittenbyhim.Inthefirstpartofthearticle,bytakinginac- count the entire work (e.g. notes and appendices) I’ll revise the previous opinion that considersthisworkareversiontoanintellectualisticapproachtothemythandawith- drawalfromtheeuhemeristicandritualisttheoriesandarenouncementtoaunitaryvi- sionofthemyth.I’llshowthattheeuhemerismadoptedbyFrazerderivedfromthein- fluenceofSchliemann’sarchaeologicaldiscoveriesandfromthecurrentdebateonthena- tureoftheGreekheroesandthatitdoesn’tcontrastwithanintellectualapproach.Also, the attention paid to the role played by the bards, underlined by the category of folk tales,canbeinsertedinaglobalreflectionofthemyth.However,I’llshowthatthisre- flection,withitscriticismtotheritualistictheories,doesn’timplyarealreconsideration ofthetheoreticalframeoftheGoldenBough,asshownbythenotestothetext. In the second part, I’ll argue that Frazer’s decision to enrich the edition with long notes with loci paralleli and his presentation of the mythographer as an ingenuous and faithful compilatorofpreviousgoodsources,contributedsignificantlytothesuccessofthe Library intheXXcentury,but,atthesametime,determinedanoversimplifieduseofthistextasa referenceworknotdifferentfrommodernencyclopaedicmythologicaldictionary. KEYWORDS.Myth,Mythography,ps.Apollodorus,Frazer,Euhemerism,Folk-tales. L ’APOLLODORO DI FRAZER. RICOSTRUZIONE DI UN’EDIZIONE E DELLA SUA FORTUNA