Collected Ancient Greek Novels
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Collected Ancient Greek Novels
Author | : B. P. Reardon |
Publsiher | : University of California Press |
Total Pages | : 982 |
Release | : 2019-05-07 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780520305595 |
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Prose fiction, although not always associated with classical antiquity, flourished in the early Roman Empire, not only in realistic Latin novels but also and indeed principally in the Greek ideal romance of love and adventure. Enormously popular in the Renaissance, these stories have been less familiar in later centuries. Translations of the Greek stories were not readily available in English before B.P. Reardon’s first appeared in 1989.Nine complete stories are included here as well as ten others, encompassing the whole range of classical themes: romance, travel, adventure, historical fiction, and comic parody. A foreword by J.R. Morgan examines the enormous impact this groundbreaking collection has had on our understanding of classical thought and our concept of the novel.
The Novel in Antiquity
Author | : Tomas Hägg |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 1991-12-16 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0520076389 |
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Tracing the development of Greek romances from 200 B.C. through twelfth-century Byzantium, Tomas Hägg analyses the content, plot and narrative techniques of the ancient novel, and explores the social and literary milieu in which the genre flourished.
The Loves of Ch rcas and Callirrhoe Written Originally in Greek by Chariton of Aphrodisios Now First Translated Into English
Author | : Chariton |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1764 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : UOM:39015031446845 |
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Narrative and Identity in the Ancient Greek Novel
Author | : Tim Whitmarsh |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2011-04-07 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9781139500586 |
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The Greek romance was for the Roman period what epic was for the Archaic period or drama for the Classical: the central literary vehicle for articulating ideas about the relationship between self and community. This book offers a reading of the romance both as a distinctive narrative form (using a range of narrative theories) and as a paradigmatic expression of identity (social, sexual and cultural). At the same time it emphasises the elasticity of romance narrative and its ability to accommodate both conservative and transformative models of identity. This elasticity manifests itself partly in the variation in practice between different romancers, some of whom are traditionally Hellenocentric while others are more challenging. Ultimately, however, it is argued that it reflects a tension in all romance narrative, which characteristically balances centrifugal against centripetal dynamics. This book will interest classicists, historians of the novel and students of narrative theory.
Ancient Greek Novels
Author | : Susan A. Stephens,John J. Winkler |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 558 |
Release | : 2014-07-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781400863389 |
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The recent discovery of fragments from such novels as Iolaos, Phoinikika, Sesonchosis, and Metiochos and Parthenope has dramatically increased the library catalogue of ancient novels, calling for a fresh survey of the field. In this volume Susan Stephens and John Winkler have reedited all of the identifiable novel fragments, including the epitomes of Iamblichos' Babyloniaka and Antonius Diogenes' Incredible Things Beyond Thule. Intended for scholars as well as nonspecialists, this work provides new editions of the texts, full translations whenever possible, and introductions that situate each text within the field of ancient fiction and that present relevant background material, literary parallels, and possible lines of interpretation. Collective reading of the fragments exposes the inadequacy of many currently held assumptions about the ancient novel, among these, for example, the paradigm for a linear, increasingly complex narrative development, the notion of the "ideal romantic" novel as the generic norm, and the nature of the novel's readership and cultural milieu. Once perceived as a late and insignificant development, the novel emerges as a central and revealing cultural phenomenon of the Greco-Roman world after Alexander. Originally published in 1995. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Greek Fiction
Author | : ]. R. Morgan,Richard Stoneman |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2013-11-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781317799375 |
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First published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Philosophy and the Ancient Novel
Author | : Marília Futre Pinheiro,Silvia Montiglio |
Publsiher | : Barkhuis |
Total Pages | : 179 |
Release | : 2015-09-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789491431937 |
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The papers assembled in this volume explore a relatively new area in scholarship on the ancient novel: the relationship between an ostensibly non-philosophical genre and philosophy. This approach opens up several original themes for further research and debate. Platonising fiction was popular in the Second Sophistic and it took a variety of forms, ranging from the intertextual to the allegorical, and discussions of the origins of the novel-genre in antiquity have centred on the role of Socratic dialogue in general and Plato’s dialogues in particular as important precursors. The papers in this collection cover a variety of genres, ranging from the Greek and Roman novels to utopian narratives and fictional biographies, and seek by diverse methods to detect philosophical resonances in these texts.
Dreams and Suicides
Author | : Suzanne Macalister |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2013-01-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781135086435 |
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This study discusses the Greek novel through the ages, from the genre's flowering in late Antiquity to its learned revival in twelfth-century Byzantium. Its unique feature is its full coverage of the Byzantine novels, demonstrating that they both depend upon and react against the ancient novel, and can only be understood against the cultural backdrop of ancient Greek literature. Dreams and Suicides analyses the cultural symptoms and attitudes portrayed or implied in the novels, thus rooting them in a social rather than merely a literary context. For all students of ancient culture, this book provides important and original insights into the genre of ancient literature.