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The Ancient Noveland the Frontiers of Genre

Author : Marília P. Futre Pinheiro
Publisher : Barkhuis
ISBN 13 : 9491431668
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book The Ancient Noveland the Frontiers of Genre written by Marília P. Futre Pinheiro and published by Barkhuis. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume presents a collection of thirteen papers from the Fourth International Conference on the Ancient Novel (ICAN 2008), which was held in Lisbon at the Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian from July 21 to 26, 2008. The Ancient Novel and the Frontiers of Genre reflects entirely the spirit and the general theme of the Conference, and is intended to convey the idea that both the novel as a literary form and scholarship on the ancient novel tend to mature and advance by crossing boundaries that older forms regarded as uncrossable. The papers assembled in this volume include extended prose narratives of all kinds and thereby widen and enrich the scope of the novel's canon. The essays explore a wide variety of text, crossed genres, and hybrid forms, which transgress the frontiers of the so-called ancient novel, providing an excellent insight into different kinds of narrative prose in antiquity". (from the preface)

Literary Currents and Romantic Forms

Author : Stephen M. Trzaskoma
Publisher : Barkhuis
ISBN 13 : 9492444895
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (924 download)

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Download or read book Literary Currents and Romantic Forms written by Stephen M. Trzaskoma and published by Barkhuis. This book was released on 2019-04-06 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bryan Reardon (1928-2009) was one of the most important and influential figures in the revival of scholarly interest in the Greek novel and ancient fiction in the last quarter of the twentieth century. His organisation of the first International Conference on the Ancient Novel (ICAN) at Bangor, North Wales, in 1976 was a landmark in the field and an inspiration to the organisers of subsequent ICANs, from which Ancient Narrative itself sprang. As editor of Collected Ancient Greek Novels (University of California Press 1989; second edition 2008), he made the Greek novels accessible to a wider readership and won a place for them in university syllabuses across the English-speaking world. This volume contains twenty essays by leading scholars of ancient fiction, who were all pupils, colleagues or close friends of Bryan Reardon, in memory of his scholarship, energy, guidance and humanity. They cover a range of topics including ancient literary theory and the conceptualisation of fiction, discussion of individual novels (Chariton, Longus, Iamblichus, Achilles Tatius, and Apuleius) and novelistic texts (a papyrus fragment of a lost novel, and Philostratus' Life of Apollonius), the afterlife of the ancient novel (in a Renaissance commentary on Roman law, in a seventeenth-century essay on the origin of the novel, and in a seventeenth-century series of paintings in a French château), and a speculative reconstruction of the morning after the end of Heliodorus' novel. The title of the volume commemorates two of Bryan Reardon's most important books: Courants littéraires grecs des IIe et IIIe siècles après J.-C. (Paris 1971) and The Form of Greek Romance (Princeton 1991); and the photograph of Aphrodisias on the front cover is a tribute to his critical edition of Chariton (2004).

The Ancient Novel and Early Christian and Jewish Narrative: Fictional Intersections

Author : Marília P. Futre Pinheiro
Publisher : Barkhuis
ISBN 13 : 9491431528
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book The Ancient Novel and Early Christian and Jewish Narrative: Fictional Intersections written by Marília P. Futre Pinheiro and published by Barkhuis. This book was released on 2013-08-31 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative collection explores the vital role played by fictional narratives in Christian and Jewish self-fashioning in the early Roman imperial period. Employing a diversity of approaches, including cultural studies, feminist, philological, and narratological, expert scholars from six countries offer twelve essays on Christian fictions or fictionalized texts and one essay on Aseneth. All the papers were originally presented at the Fourth International Conference on the Ancient Novel in Lisbon Portugal in 2008. The papers emphasize historical contextualization and comparative methodologies and will appeal to all those interested in early Christianity, the Ancient novel, Roman imperial history, feminist studies, and canonization processes.

Reading and Teaching Ancient Fiction

Author : Sara R. Johnson
Publisher : SBL Press
ISBN 13 : 0884142604
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (841 download)

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Download or read book Reading and Teaching Ancient Fiction written by Sara R. Johnson and published by SBL Press. This book was released on 2018-03-23 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third volume of research on ancient fiction This volume includes essays presented in the Ancient Fiction and Early Christian and Jewish Narrative section of the Society of Biblical Literature. Contributors explore facets of ongoing research into the interplay of history, fiction, and narrative in ancient Greco-Roman, Jewish, and Christian texts. The essays examine the ways in which ancient authors in a variety of genre and cultural settings employed a range of narrative strategies to reflect on pressing contemporary issues, to shape community identity, or to provide moral and educational guidance for their readers. Not content merely to offer new insights, this volume also highlights strategies for integrating the fruits of this research into the university classroom and beyond. Features Insight into the latest developments in ancient Mediterranean narrative Exploration of how to use ancient texts to encourage students to examine assumptions about ancient gender and sexuality or to view familiar texts from a new perspective Close readings of classical authors as well as canonical and noncanonical Jewish and Christian texts

Egypt, Ethiopia, and the Greek Novel

Author : Robert Cioffi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192697900
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Book Synopsis Egypt, Ethiopia, and the Greek Novel by : Robert Cioffi

Download or read book Egypt, Ethiopia, and the Greek Novel written by Robert Cioffi and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-07 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no region more central to the ancient Greek romance novel than the thousand or so miles stretching from Alexandria to ancient Ethiopia that comprise the Nile River Valley. Yet, for all its importance, Egypt, Ethiopia, and the Greek Novel: Between Representation and Resistance is the first book-length study of how this region is depicted in a literary genre whose fictional tales of love, travel, separation, and reunion flourished during the Roman imperial period. Employing approaches from Literary Studies, Classics, and Egyptology, Robert Cioffi explores the Nile River Valley in the ancient Greek romance novel through two fundamentally related concepts: representation and resistance. On the one hand, these novels develop an image of Egypt and Ethiopia that is in close dialogue with the Greco-Roman ethnographic tradition, characterized by extraordinary marvels such as grand cities, ancient religious rites, and a dizzying array of animals—some real, some imaginary, and some so incredible as to seem make-believe. On the other hand, this depiction often figures Egypt and Ethiopia as sites of resistance, revolt, and rebellion against—or political, cultural, and religious alternatives to—an array of dominant imperial powers in the region, from the Persians to the Romans. This dual reading enriches our understanding of these texts' relationship with the real and imagined frontiers of Roman political, military, and intellectual power. It also raises a broader set of questions—some literary, some cultural-historical—about the interrelation of humans, their environment, and the topographies of cultural identity in the Roman empire.

The Origins of Early Christian Literature

Author : Robyn Faith Walsh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108835309
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book The Origins of Early Christian Literature written by Robyn Faith Walsh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-28 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Synoptic gospels were written by elites educated in Greco-Roman literature, not exclusively by and for early Christian communities.

Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature

Author : N. Bryant Kirkland
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197583512
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)

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Download or read book Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature written by N. Bryant Kirkland and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature is the first monograph devoted to the reception of Herodotus among Imperial Greek writers. Using a broad reception model and focused largely on texts outside of historiography proper, this book analyzes the entanglements of criticism and imitation in select works by Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Plutarch, Dio of Prusa, Lucian, and Pausanias. It offers a new angle on Herodotus's intellectual afterlife, channeled through evocations both explicit and implicit in literary criticism, the moral essay, public oration, satire and periegetic literature. Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature shifts focus from reputation only - what ancient authors explicitly had to say about Herodotus - toward the kinetic interrelation between Herodotus's reputation and his active reworking across genre and mode. It demonstrates how Herodotus was strategically construed and often implicitly summoned - as fabulist, classicist, moralizer, and evasive intellectual - and how such Herodotean presences played to the wider purposes of Imperial writers. Herodotus became a touchstone for writers concerned with a nimbus of questions that the Histories first helped to articulate. Imperial Greeks found Herodotus useful in puzzling through questions of authorial persona, mimesis, the relationship between aesthetic and ethical criticism, the self, and the contingent definitions of Hellenism under Rome. Ultimately, Herodotus and Imperial Greek Literature widens an incomplete reception history and reads bi-focally, examining how attention to the presence of Herodotus in various texts unveils new layers of meaning in those works, while also showing how ancient receptions offer insight into the Histories"--

The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Christian Martyrdom

Author : Paul Middleton
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 111910002X
Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (191 download)

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Download or read book The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Christian Martyrdom written by Paul Middleton and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-01-27 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique, wide-ranging volume exploring the historical, religious, cultural, political, and social aspects of Christian martyrdom Although a well-studied and researched topic in early Christianity, martyrdom had become a relatively neglected subject of scholarship by the latter half of the 20th century. However, in the years following the attack on the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001, the study of martyrdom has experienced a remarkable resurgence. Heightened cultural, religious, and political debates about Islamic martyrdom have, in a large part, prompted increased interest in the role of martyrdom in the Christian tradition. The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Christian Martyrdom is a comprehensive examination of the phenomenon from its beginnings to its role in the present day. This timely volume presents essays written by 30 prominent scholars that explore the fundamental concepts, key questions, and contemporary debates surrounding martyrdom in Christianity. Broad in scope, this volume explores topics ranging from the origins, influences, and theology of martyrdom in the early church, with particular emphasis placed on the Martyr Acts, to contemporary issues of gender, identity construction, and the place of martyrdom in the modern church. Essays address the role of martyrdom after the establishment of Christendom, especially its crucial contribution during and after the Reformation period in the development of Christian and European national-building, as well as its role in forming Christian identities in Asia, Africa, and the Americas. This important contribution to Christian scholarship: Offers the first comprehensive reference work to examine the topic of martyrdom throughout Christian history Includes an exploration of martyrdom and its links to traditions in Judaism and Islam Covers extensive geographical zones, time periods, and perspectives Provides topical commentary on Islamic martyrdom and its parallels to the Christian church Discusses hotly debated topics such as the extent of the Roman persecution of early Christians The Wiley Blackwell Companion to Christian Martyrdom is an invaluable resource for scholars and students of religious studies, theology, and Christian history, as well as readers with interest in the topic of Christian martyrdom.

Reading Heliodorus' Aethiopica

Author : A G Leventis Professor of Greek Culture Tim Whitmarsh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198792549
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Reading Heliodorus' Aethiopica written by A G Leventis Professor of Greek Culture Tim Whitmarsh and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-14 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the latest, longest, and greatest of the ancient Greek romances, this volume exploring Heliodorus' Aethiopica brings together fifteen established experts, each exploring a passage or section of the text in depth.

Recognizing Miracles in Antiquity and Beyond

Author : Maria Gerolemou
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 311056355X
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Recognizing Miracles in Antiquity and Beyond written by Maria Gerolemou and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-04-23 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, scholars have extensively explored the function of the miraculous and wondrous in ancient narratives, mostly pondering on how ancient authors view wondrous accounts, i.e. the treatment of the descriptions of wondrous occurrences as true events or their use. More precisely, these narratives investigate whether the wondrous pursues a display of erudition or merely provides stylistic variety; sometimes, such narratives even represent the wish of the author to grant a “rational explanation” to extraordinary actions. At present, however, two aspects of the topic have not been fully examined: a) the ability of the wondrous/miraculous to set cognitive mechanisms in motion and b) the power of the wondrous/miraculous to contribute to the construction of an authorial identity (that of kings, gods, or narrators). To this extent, the volume approaches miracles and wonders as counter intuitive phenomena, beyond cognitive grasp, which challenge the authenticity of human experience and knowledge and push forward the frontiers of intellectual and aesthetic experience. Some of the articles of the volume examine miracles on the basis of bewilderment that could lead to new factual knowledge; the supernatural is here registered as something natural (although strange); the rest of the articles treat miracles as an endpoint, where human knowledge stops and the unknown divine begins (here the supernatural is confirmed). Thence, questions like whether the experience of a miracle or wonder as a counter intuitive phenomenon could be part of long-term memory, i.e. if miracles could be transformed into solid knowledge and what mental functions are encompassed in this process, are central in the discussion.

Piracy, Pillage, and Plunder in Antiquity

Author : Richard Evans
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429803036
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book Piracy, Pillage, and Plunder in Antiquity written by Richard Evans and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-05 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Piracy, Pillage, and Plunder in Antiquity explores appropriation in its broadest terns in the ancient world, from brigands, mercenaries and state-sponsored "piracy", to literary appropriation and the modern plundering of antiquities. The chronological extent of the studies in this volume, written by an international group of experts, ranges from about 2000 BCE to the 20th century. The geographical spectrum in similarly diverse, encompassing Africa, the Mediterranean, and Mesopotamia, allowing readers to track this phenomenon in various different manifestations. Predatory behaviour is a phenomenon seen in all walks of life. While violence may often be concomitant it is worth observing that predation can be extremely nuanced in its application, and it is precisely this gradation and its focus that occupies the essential issue in this volume. Piracy, Pillage, and Plunder in Antiquity will be of great interest to those studying a range of topics in antiquity, including literature and art, cities and their foundations, crime, warfare, and geography.

Plutarch’s Unexpected Silences

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004514252
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Plutarch’s Unexpected Silences written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-06-13 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines passages in Plutarch’s works that foil expectations and whose silence invites closer examination. The contributors question omissions of authors, works, people, and places, and they examine Plutarch’s reticence to comment where he usually would.

A Landscape of Conflict? Rural Fortifications in the Argolid (400–146 BC)

Author : Anna Magdalena Blomley
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1789699711
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (896 download)

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Download or read book A Landscape of Conflict? Rural Fortifications in the Argolid (400–146 BC) written by Anna Magdalena Blomley and published by Archaeopress Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2022-05-26 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first systematic study of Late Classical and Hellenistic rural fortifications in ancient Argos and the city-states of the Argolic Akte. Based on one of the largest regional corpora of Greek fortified sites, the volume investigates the function of rural fortifications by placing them in the context of their surrounding landscape.

Re-Wiring The Ancient Novel, 2 Volume set

Author : Edmund Cueva
Publisher : Barkhuis
ISBN 13 : 9492444690
Total Pages : 773 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (924 download)

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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.

Tales of Dionysus

Author : William Levitan
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472038966
Total Pages : 817 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Tales of Dionysus written by William Levitan and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2022-08-15 with total page 817 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first English verse translation of the Dionysiaca of Nonnus of Panopolis

The Invention of the Inspired Text

Author : John C. Poirier
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567696766
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (676 download)

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Download or read book The Invention of the Inspired Text written by John C. Poirier and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-28 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John C. Poirier examines the “theopneustic” nature of the Scripture, as a response to the view that “inspiration” lies at the heart of most contemporary Christian theology. In contrast to the traditional rendering of the Greek word theopneustos as “God-inspired” in 2 Tim 3:16, Poirier argues that a close look at first- and second-century uses of theopneustos reveals that the traditional inspirationist understanding of the term did not arise until the time of Origen in the early third century CE, and that in every pre-Origen use of theopneustos the word instead means “life-giving.” Poirier thus conducts a detailed investigation of theopneustos as it appears in the fifth Sibylline Oracle, the Testament of Abraham, Vettius Valens, Pseudo-Plutarch (Placita Philosophorum), and Pseudo-Phocylides, all of whom understand the word to mean “life-giving.” He also studies the use of the cognate term theopnous in Numenius, the Corpus Hermeticum, on an inscription at the Great Sphinx of Giza, and on an inscription at a nymphaeum at Laodicea on the Lycus. Poirier argues that a rendering of “life-giving” also fits better within the context of 2 Tim 3:16, and that this meaning survived late enough to figure in a fifth-century work by Nonnus of Panopolis. He further traces the pre-Origen use of theopneustos among the Church Fathers. Poirier concludes by addressing the implication of rethinking the traditional understanding of Scripture, stressing that the lack of “God-inspired” scripture ultimately does not affect the truth status of the gospel as preached by the apostles.

The Hagiographical Experiment: Developing Discourses of Sainthood

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004421335
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book The Hagiographical Experiment: Developing Discourses of Sainthood written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hagiographical Experiment: Developing Discourses of Sainthood throws fresh light on narratives about Christian holy men and women from Late Antiquity to Byzantium. Rather than focusing on the relationship between story and reality, it asks what literary choices authors made in depicting their heroes and heroines: how they positioned the narrator, how they responded to existing texts, how they utilised or transcended genre conventions for their own purposes, and how they sought to relate to their audiences. The literary focus of the chapters assembled here showcases the diversity of hagiographical texts written in Greek, Latin, Coptic, and Syriac, as well as pointing out the ongoing conversations that connect them. By asking these questions of this diverse group of texts, it illuminates the literary development of hagiography in the late antique, Byzantine, and medieval periods.