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Author : Graham Anderson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004327603
Author : Graham Anderson
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1976-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9004047603
Author : ]. R. Morgan,Richard Stoneman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317799368
First published in 1994. Greek fiction has never been more popular. New approaches to ancient literature, and new courses in literature in translation, have made the ancient novel a fertile field for scholar and student alike. This volume extends the boundaries of the subject beyond the 'canon' of the romances properly called and examines Greek fictional writing in the widest possible context, including texts that are not normally treated as novels, such as various kinds of sacred or quasi-historical texts. The editors hope to open up the definition of Greek fiction to further debate and to create cross-currents between scholars working in diverse fields.
Author : Heinz Hofmann
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 0415147220
Latin Fiction provides a chronological study of the Roman novel from the Classical period to the Middle Ages, exploring the development of the novel and the continuity of Latin culture. Essays by eminent and international contributors discuss texts including: * Petronius, Satyrica and Cena Trimalchionis * Apuleius, Metamorphose(The Golden Ass) and The Tale of Cupid and Psyche * The History of Apollonius of Tyre * The Trojan tales of Dares Phrygius and Dictys Cretensis * The Latin Alexander * Hagiographic fiction * Medieval interpretations of Cupid and Pysche, Apollonius of Tyre and the Alexander Romance. For any student or scholar of Latin fiction, or literary history, this will definitely be a book to add to your reading list.
Author : Eleni Bozia
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317633815
Lucian and His Roman Voices examines cultural exchanges, political propaganda, and religious conflicts in the Early Roman Empire through the eyes of Lucian, his contemporary Roman authors, and Christian Apologists. Offering a multi-faceted analysis of the Lucianic corpus, this book explores how Lucian, a Syrian who wrote in Greek and who became a Roman citizen, was affected by the socio-political climate of his time, reacted to it, and how he ‘corresponded’ with the Roman intelligentsia. In the process, this unique volume raises questions such as: What did the title ‘Roman citizen’ mean to native Romans and to others? How were language and literature politicized, and how did they become a means of social propaganda? This study reveals Lucian’s recondite historical and authorial personas and the ways in which his literary activity portrayed second-century reality from the perspectives of the Romans, Greeks, pagans, Christians, and citizens of the Roman Empire
Author : Graham Anderson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-23
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781317747321
A number of ancient novelists were skilful storytellers and resourceful literary artists, and their works are often carefully individualised presentations of an ancient and distinguished heritage. Ancient Fiction, first published in 1984, examines the tales retold by these novelists in light of more recently discovered Near Eastern texts, and in this way offers a tentative solution to Rohde’s celebrated problem about the origins of the Greek novel. Among the surprises that emerge are an ancient stratum of the Arabian Nights and a possible Tristan-Romance, as well as an animal Satyricon and a human Golden Ass. This new framework is, however, incidental to an examination of the achievements of ancient novelists in their own right. In presenting character, structuring narrative, imposing a veneer of sophistication or contriving a religious ethos, these writers demonstrate that their work is worthy of sympathetic study, rather dismissal as the pulp fiction of the ancient world.
Author : Kyu Sam Han
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2002-04-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781841271835
This book deals with the place of the source document Q and its compilers within late Second Temple Judaism, with special attention to Q's relationship to the Herodian Temple. The investigation of this perspective is fraught with problems because the passages that are associated with the Temple in Q do not speak with the same voice, raising the question of how to reconcile the seemingly positive view with the rather more hostile views. Using a comparative approach, Han analyses the essential differences in the two types of positions, and concludes that the negative attitude is original, while the positive position is due to a later redaction after the First Revolt and the destruction of the Temple.
Author : Joel Ralph Cohn
Publisher : Harvard Univ Asia Center
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Education
ISBN : 0674847113
Unlike traditional Japanese literature, with its rich tradition of comedy, modern Japanese literature is commonly associated with high seriousness. Cohn analyzes works by three writers--Ibuse Masuji (1898-1993), Dazai Osamu (1909-1948), and Inoue Hisashi (1934- )--that assault the notion that comedy cannot be part of serious literature.
Author : Adam Bartley
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-10-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443816090
Lucian of Samosata, the prolific Greek-speaking satirist of the 2nd century AD, left us a wide range of works ranging from harsh invective against cult-leaders and philosophers to playful pastiche of Herodotus' Histories. Art and artists, teachers of rhetoric, inconsistent myths, parasites in rich households, authors seeking imperial patronage and the rich and powerful themselves all provide rich material for his wit and humour. In this volume the focus is not on the literary values of Lucian's works, but rather on what they show us about the intellectual, political, religious and everyday life of the Imperial period. The articles address themes such as the importance of Latin in the Greek-speaking eastern Empire, rituals of death and mourning, attitudes towards the lands beyond the empire and the role of politics in comedy and satire, both in Lucian's own time and in the 5th and 4th centuries BC. While Lucian's own distinctive personality is impossible to ignore, the picture that emerges is one of both the high intellectual life and everyday behaviour in this vibrant period in the history of the Mediterranean region.
Author : John J. Winkler,Gordon Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1982-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521239479
A body of Greek literature collected in an attempt to draw attention to often underrated literary excellence.
Author : P. E. Easterling,Bernard Knox
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 960 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1985-05-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0521210429
This volume looks at literature of the Hellenistic period.
Author : P. E. Easterling,B. M. W. Knox
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1989-05-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0521359848
The emphasis of this volume is on Greek literature produced in the period between the foundation of Alexandria late in the fourth century B.C. and the end of the 'high empire' in the third century A.D. Here we see a shift away from the city states of the Greek mainland to the new centres of culture and power, first Alexandria under the Ptolemies and then imperial Rome, Greek literature, being traditionally cosmopolitan, adapted to these changes with remarkable success, and through the efficiency of the Hellenistic educational system Greek literary culture became the essential mark of an educated person in the Graeco-Roman world.
Author : Graham Anderson
Publisher : Brill Archive
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9004047352
Continued by the author's studies in Lucian's comic fiction.
Author : H. J. Blackham
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472513540
This is a study of a curious and neglected facet of literature, in which the author traces the development and the uses of fable in Euopean literature, from Aesop and the Greeks to the revival of fable in contemporary fiction. This is the first serious study of fable in literature.
Author : Michael Paschalis,Stelios Panayotakis,Gareth L. Schmeling
Publisher : Barkhuis
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9789077922545
The present volume comprises most of the papers delivered at RICAN 4 in 2007. The focus is placed on readers and writers in the ancient novel and broadly in ancient fiction, though without ignoring readers and writers of the ancient novel. The papers offer a wide and rich range of perspectives: the reading of novels in antiquity as a process of active engagement with the text (Konstan); the dialogic character, involving writer and reader, of Lucian's Verae Historiae (Futre Pinheiro); book divisions in Chariton's Callirhoe as prompts guiding the reader towards gradual mastery over the text (Whitmarsh); polypragmosyne (curiosity) in ancient fiction and how it affects the practice of reading novels (Hunter); the intriguing relationship between the writing and reading of inscriptions in ancient fiction (Slater); the tension between public and private in constructing and reading of texts inserted in the novelistic prose (Nimis); the intertextual pedigree of the poet Eumolpus (Smith); Seneca's Claudius and Petronius' Encolpius as readers of Homer and Virgil and writers of literary scenarios (Paschalis); the ways in which some Greek novels draw the reader's attention to their status as written texts (Bowie); the interfaces between tellers and receivers of stories in Antonius Diogenes (Morgan); the generic components and the putative author of the Alexander Romance (Stoneman); Diktys as a writer and ways of reading his Ephemeris (Dowden); the presence and character of Iliadic intertexts in Apuleius' Metamorphoses (Harrison); the contrasting roles of the narrator-translator in Apuleius' Metamorphoses and De deo Socratis (Fletcher); seriocomic strategies by Roman authors of narrative fiction and fable (Graverini & Keulen); reading as a function for recognizing 'allegorical moments' in the Metamorphoses of Apuleius (Zimmerman); active and passive reading as embedded in Philostratus' Life of Apollonius; and the importance of book reading in Augustine's 'novelistic' Confessions (Hunink).