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Publisher : Barkhuis
ISBN 13 : 9080739049
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (87 download)
Download or read book Ancient Narrative Volume 2 (2002) written by and published by Barkhuis. This book was released on with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : Barkhuis
ISBN 13 : 9077922261
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (779 download)
Download or read book Ancient Narrative Volume 5 written by and published by Barkhuis. This book was released on with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ewen Bowie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009353527
Total Pages : 1071 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture: Volume 2, Comedy, Herodotus, Hellenistic and Imperial Greek Poetry, the Novels written by Ewen Bowie and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 1071 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book one of the world's leading Hellenists brings together his many contributions over four decades to our understanding of major genres of Greek literature, above all the Greek novel, but also Attic Comedy, fifth-century historiography, and Hellenistic and Imperial Greek poetry. Many are already essential reading, such as the chapter on the figure of Lycidas in Theocritus' Idyll 7, or two chapters on the ancient readership of Greek novels. Discussions of Imperial Greek poetry published three decades ago opened up a world almost entirely neglected by scholars. Several chapters address literary and linguistic issues in Longus' novel Daphnis and Chloe, complementing the author's commentary published in 2019; two contribute to a better understanding of the enigmatic Aethiopica of Heliodorus; and many explore important questions arising from examination of the form of the Greek novel as a whole. This is the second of a planned three-volume collection.
Author : JD McLarty
Publisher : James Clarke & Company
ISBN 13 : 022790575X
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (279 download)
Download or read book Thecla's Devotion written by JD McLarty and published by James Clarke & Company. This book was released on 2018-08-30 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Second century apocryphal Christian texts are Christian fiction: they draw on the motifs of contemporary pagan stories of romance, travel and adventure to entertain their readers, but also to explore what it means to be Christian. The Thecla episodein the Apocryphal Acts of Paul recounts the conversion of a young pagan woman, her rejection of marriage, her narrow escapes from martyrdom and the end of her story as an independent, ascetic evangelist. In Thecla's Devotion, J.D. McLarty reads the Thecla episode against a paradigm pagan romance, Callirhoe: for both texts the passions are key to the unfolding of the plot - how are unruly emotions to be managed and controlled? The pagan would answer, 'through reason'. This study uses the portrayal of emotion within character and plot to explore the response of the Thecla episode to this key question for Christian identity formation.
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Publisher : Barkhuis
ISBN 13 : 9077922504
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (779 download)
Download or read book Ancient Narrative Volume 7 written by and published by Barkhuis. This book was released on with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : Barkhuis
ISBN 13 : 907792289X
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (779 download)
Download or read book Ancient Narrative Volume 9 written by and published by Barkhuis. This book was released on with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stelios Panayotakis
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047402111
Total Pages : 519 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)
Download or read book The Ancient Novel and Beyond written by Stelios Panayotakis and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-07-31 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of wide-ranging essays offers a fascinating overview of current scholarly approaches to the ancient novel and related texts. These are discussed in their literary, cultural and social context, and as sources of inspiration for Byzantine and modern fiction.
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Publisher : Barkhuis
ISBN 13 : 9491431226
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (914 download)
Download or read book Ancient Narrative Volume 10 written by and published by Barkhuis. This book was released on with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edmund Cueva
Publisher : Barkhuis
ISBN 13 : 9492444690
Total Pages : 773 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (924 download)
Download or read book Re-Wiring The Ancient Novel, 2 Volume set written by Edmund Cueva and published by Barkhuis. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 773 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fifth International Conference on the Ancient Novel, which was held in Houston, Texas, in the fall of 2015, brought together scholars and students of the ancient novel from all over the world in order to share new and significant developments about this fascinating field of study and its important place in the field of Classical Studies. The essays contained in these two volumes are clear evidence that the ancient novel has become a valuable part of the Classics canon and its scholarly attempts to understand the ancient Graeco-Roman world.
Author : Irene J.F. de Jong
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047422937
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (474 download)
Download or read book Time in Ancient Greek Literature written by Irene J.F. de Jong and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2017-08-21 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second volume of a new narratological history of Ancient Greek lietrature, which deals with aspects of time: the order in which events are narrated, the amount of time devoted to the naration, and the number of times they are presented.
Author : Steven D. Smith
Publisher : Barkhuis
ISBN 13 : 9077922288
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (779 download)
Download or read book Greek Identity and the Athenian Past in Chariton written by Steven D. Smith and published by Barkhuis. This book was released on 2007 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I, Chariton of Aphrodisias, secretary of the rhetor Athenagorus, shall relate a love story that took place in Syracuse. Thus begins the earliest of the canonical Greek romances, the 1st century CE historical novel known as Callirhoe. Chariton's erotic tale is about the constancy of love in a world where virtue is always in danger of being corrupted. Chaereas and Callirhoe fall in love, but then are tragically separated after the heroine, believed dead, is buried alive. Each is eventually sold into slavery in the East, and Callirhoe herself contemplates the abortion of her unborn child when she is forced to marry a man she does not love. Hero and heroine are finally reunited in the foreign city of Babylon, only to be plunged into a war between Persia and Egypt.Classical Athenian historiography, philosophy, oratory, myth and drama were all integral in shaping this timely work of fiction set in the years following Athens' doomed Sicilian Expedition (415-413 BC). Chariton's novel is more, though, than just a romanticized representation of a famous episode from Greek history. The novel is clearly meant to be read for pleasure, but it also has a political edge. By imaginatively redeploying Athenian literature and political discourse in the construction of his fictional world, Chariton gives voice to contemporary concerns about freedom, tyranny, the ever-expanding meaning of Greek identity, and the role of Greek culture in a world dominated by Rome. This is a book that will be of value to anyone interested in Greek literature, the classical tradition, and the complex relationship between art and empire.
Author : Juliette Harrisson
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441189297
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)
Download or read book Dreams and Dreaming in the Roman Empire written by Juliette Harrisson and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history and literature of the Roman Empire is full of reports of dream prophecies, dream ghosts and dream gods. This volume offers a fresh approach to the study of ancient dreams by asking not what the ancients dreamed or how they experienced dreaming, but why the Romans considered dreams to be important and worthy of recording. Dream reports from historical and imaginative literature from the high point of the Roman Empire (the first two centuries AD) are analysed as objects of cultural memory, records of events of cultural significance that contribute to the formation of a group's cultural identity. The book also introduces the term 'cultural imagination', as a tool for thinking about ancient myth and religion, and avoiding the question of 'belief', which arises mainly from creed-based religions. The book's conclusion compares dream reports in the Classical world with modern attitudes towards dreams and dreaming, identifying distinctive features of both the world of the Romans and our own culture.
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Publisher : Barkhuis
ISBN 13 : 9077922083
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (779 download)
Download or read book Ancient Narrative Volume 4 written by and published by Barkhuis. This book was released on with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : Barkhuis
ISBN 13 : 9077922660
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (779 download)
Download or read book Ancient Narrative Volume 8 written by and published by Barkhuis. This book was released on with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900429984X
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Herodotus in Antiquity and Beyond written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-01-19 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brill's Companion to the Reception of Herodotus in Antiquity and Beyond offers new insights on the reception and cultural transmission of one of the most controversial and influential texts to have survived from Classical Antiquity. Herodotus’ Histories has been adopted, adapted, imitated, contested, admired and criticized across diverse genres, historical periods, and geographical boundaries. This companion, edited by Jessica Priestley and Vasiliki Zali, examines the reception of Herodotus in a range of cultural contexts, from the fifth century BC to the twentieth century AD. The essays consider key topics such as Herodotus' place in the Western historiographical tradition, translation of and scholarly engagement with the Histories, and the use of the Histories as a model for describing and interpreting cultural and geographical material.
Author : Stavros Frangoulidis
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
ISBN 13 : 3110210037
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)
Download or read book Witches, Isis and Narrative written by Stavros Frangoulidis and published by Walter de Gruyter. This book was released on 2008-11-06 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first in-depth study of Apuleius' Metamorphoses to look at the different attitudes characters adopt towards magic as a key to deciphering the complex dynamics of the entire work. The variety of responses to magic is unveiled in the narrative as the protagonist Lucius encounters an assortment of characters, either in embedded tales or in the main plot. A contextualized approach illuminates Lucius' relatively good fortune when compared to other characters in the novel ‒ this results from his involvement with the magic of a sorcerer's apprentice, rather than that of a real witch, and signals the possibility of eventual salvation. A careful investigation of Lucius' attitude towards Isis in book 11 and his relationship with the witch-slave girl Photis earlier on suggests that the novel's final book may be read as a second "Metamorphoses", consciously rewritten from a positive perspective. Last but not least, the book also breaks new ground by examining the narrative structure of the Metamorphoses against the background of the typical plotline found in the ideal romance. The comparison shows how Apuleius both follows and alters this plot, exploiting the genre to his own specific ends, in keeping with his central theme of metamorphosis.
Author : Martin Friis
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 3161564669
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (615 download)
Download or read book Image and Imitation written by Martin Friis and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2018-10-29 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: N this work, Martin Friis examines the ancient Jewish author Flavius Josephus' various ways of self-presentation. He provides numerous examples of how in the first half of the Jewish Antiquities Josephus carefully constructs an image of himself as a capable and competent Greco-Roman historian.
