The ancient novel and beyond

by Keulen, Wytse Hette Panayotakis, Stelios Zimmerman, M., (Maaike)

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This work comprises the revised versions of selected papers read at the International Conference on the Ancient Novel (Groningen, July 2000). The essays combine judicious use of literary theory with traditional scholarship, and examines the ancient novels and related texts.

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Full title :The ancient novel and beyond / edited by Stelios Panayotakis, Maaike Zimmerman, Wytse Keulen.

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Publication Date:2003.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Brill
Place of Publication:Leiden, Netherlands
Language:eng
Publication Date:2003.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xix, 489 pages).

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:1417549580, 9781417549580, 9004129995, 9789004129993, 9047402111, 9789047402114
oclc:ocm56823158
LC Classification:PA3040
Dewey Decimal:809.3

Part One. The Ancient Novel in Context -- Alexander the Great in the Arabic Tradition / Richard Stoneman -- "The Last Days of Alexander" in an Arabic Popular Romance of Al-Iskandar / Faustina Doufikar-Aerts -- Lucius and Aesop Gain a Voice : Apul. Met. 11.1-2 and Vita Aesopi / Ellen Finkelpearl -- The Grand Vizier, the Prophet, and the Satirist : Transformations of the Oriental Ahiqar Romance in Ancient Prose Fiction / Marko Marincic -- Living Portraits and Sculpted Bodies in Chariton's Theater of Romance / Froma I. Zeitlin -- Spectator and Spectacle in Apuleius / Niall W. Slater -- Plato's Dream : Philosophy and Fiction in the Theaetetus / Kathryn Morgan -- Fiction as a Discourse of Philosophy in Lucian's Verae Historiae / Andrew Laird -- The Representation of Violence in the Greek Novels and Martyr Accounts / Cathryn Chew -- Three Death Scenes in Apollonius of Tyre / Stelios Panayotakis -- Part Two. The Ancient Novel in Focus -- Swordplay -- Wordplay : Phraseology of Fiction in Apuleius' Metamorphoses / Wytse Keulen -- Nymphs, Neighbours and Narrators : a Narratological Approach to Longus / John Morgan -- Reading for Pleasure : Narrative, Irony, and Eroticism in Achilles Tatius …

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Classical fiction Classical fiction -- History and critic… Criticism, interpretation, etc Griechisch Groningen <2000> Klassieke oudheid Klassieke talen Latein Literary Criticism -- General Literatur Literatura clássica (história e crítica) Literature, Medieval -- Classical influ… Literature, Modern -- Classical influen… Littérature -- Influence grecque Littérature médiévale -- Influence anci… Rezeption Roman Roman ancien -- Histoire et critique Romans TRAVEL -- Special Interest