The romance between Greece and the East

The romance between Greece and the East

by Thomson, Stuart Whitmarsh, Tim

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The contact zones between the Greco-Roman world and the Near East represent one of the most exciting and fast-moving areas of ancient-world studies. This new collection of essays, by world-renowned experts (and some new voices) in classical, Jewish, Egyptian, Mesopotamian and Persian literature, focuses specifically on prose fiction, or 'the ancient novel'. Twenty chapters either offer fresh readings - from an intercultural perspective - of familiar texts (such as the biblical Esther and Eccles…

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  • Full title :The romance between Greece and the East / edited by Tim Whitmarsh and Stuart Thomson.

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The contact zones between the Greco-Roman world and the Near East represent one of the most exciting and fast-moving areas of ancient-world studies. This new collection of essays, by world-renowned experts (and some new voices) in classical, Jewish, Egyptian, Mesopotamian and Persian literature, focuses specifically on prose fiction, or 'the ancient novel'. Twenty chapters either offer fresh readings - from an intercultural perspective - of familiar texts (such as the biblical Esther and Ecclesiastes, Xenophon of Ephesus' Ephesian Story and Dictys of Crete's Journal), or introduce material that may be new to many readers: from demotic Egyptian papyri through old Avestan hymns to a Turkic translation of the Life of Aesop. The volume also considers issues of methodology and the history of scholarship on the topic. A concluding section deals with the question of how narratives, patterns and motifs may have come to be transmitted between cultures.

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  • Publication Date:2013.

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The Physical Object

  • Description:xii, 396 pages ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781107038240, 1107038243, 9781139814690, 1139814699
  • oclc:ocn841039523
  • LC Classification:PA3010
  • Dewey Decimal:880.09

Subjects

Alter Orient Antiken Civilization -- Middle Eastern influenc… Comparative literature -- Greek and Mid… Comparative literature -- Middle Easter… Criticism, interpretation, etc Grèce -- Civilisation Greece Greece -- Civilization Greek fiction Greek fiction -- History and criticism Grekiska romaner -- historia Grekland Griechisch History Influenser Literatur Mellanöstern Narration (Rhetoric) Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- To 1…

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Thomson, Stuart Whitmarsh, Tim

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