Abstract
In their myth books, the Renaissance mythographers record numerous versions of the lives, feats, and genealogies of the ancient deities and are careful to credit the ancient and medieval scholars who precede them in this task, thereby enhancing the multiplicity of accounts to which they add their own. Such ancient sources as Hesiod, Homer, Cicero and Ovid form the basis of the material collected in the Spanish compendia Philosophia secreta by Juan Perez de Moya and Teatro de los dioses by Baltasar de Vitoria as well as in those by their European counterparts. These myth books themselves are, therefore, evidence of the very dynamic process of the retelling and recombining of the mythological tales that they purport to study, for the mythographers interpret and redefine as they recollect the stories of antiquity.
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