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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.
Epic Novel and the Progress of Antiquity
Author | : Ahuvia Kahane |
Publsiher | : Duckworth Pub |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0715636774 |
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Shows how classical ideas and material helped to shape the modern world. This book rethinks the characterization of two contrastive forms of ancient literary tradition - epic and novel - and re-frames their function as dynamic points of reference in the history of ideas and in our understanding of the interface between antiquity and the modern.
The Novel in the Ancient World
Author | : Gareth L. Schmeling |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 920 |
Release | : 2021-12-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9789004496439 |
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From classics and history to Jewish rabbinic narratives and the canonical and noncanonical gospels of earliest Christianity, the relevance of studying the novel of the later classical periods of Greek and Rome is widely endorsed. Ancient novels contain insights beyond literary theories and philosophical musings to new sources for understanding the popular culture of antiquity. Some scholars, in fact, refer to ancient novels as “alternative histories,” for they tell history implicitly rather than with the intentional biases of the historian. The Novel in the Ancient World surveys the new approaches and insights to the ancient novel and wrestles with issues such as the development, transformation, and christianization of the novel (Spirit-inspired versus inspired by the Muses). This publication has also been published in hardback, please click here for details.
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.
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.
A Companion to the Ancient Novel
Author | : Edmund P. Cueva,Shannon N. Byrne |
Publsiher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 626 |
Release | : 2014-03-03 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781444336023 |
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This companion addresses a topic of continuing contemporary relevance, both cultural and literary. Offers both a wide-ranging exploration of the classical novel of antiquity and a wealth of close literary analysis Brings together the most up-to-date international scholarship on the ancient novel, including fresh new academic voices Includes focused chapters on individual classical authors, such as Petronius, Xenophon and Apuleius, as well as a wide-ranging thematic analysis Addresses perplexing questions concerning authorial expression and readership of the ancient novel form Provides an accomplished introduction to a genre with a rising profile
Greek Literature in Late Antiquity
Author | : Scott Fitzgerald Johnson |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2016-04-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781317124757 |
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Late Antiquity has attracted a significant amount of attention in recent years. As a historical period it has thus far been defined by the transformation of Roman institutions, the emergence of distinct religious cultures (Jewish, Christian, Islamic), and the transmission of ancient knowledge to medieval and early modern Europe. Despite all this, the study of late antique literary culture is still in its infancy, especially for the Greek and other eastern texts examined in this volume. The contributions here presented make new inroads into a rich literature notable above all for its flexibility and unparalleled creativity in combining multiple languages and literary traditions. The authors and texts discussed include Philostratus, Eusebius of Caesarea, Nonnos of Panopolis, the important St Polyeuktos epigram, and numerous others. The volume makes use of a variety of interdisciplinary approaches in an attempt to provoke discussion on change (Dynamism), literary education (Didacticism), and reception studies (Classicism). The result is a study which highlights the erudition and literary sophistication characteristic of the period and brings questions of contextualization, linguistic association, and artistic imagination to bear on little-known or undervalued texts, without neglecting important evidence from material culture and social practices. With contributions by both established scholars and young innovators in the field of late antique studies, there is no work of comparable authority or scope currently available. This volume will stimulate further interest in a range of untapped texts from Late Antiquity.
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.