The Construction Of The Real And The Ideal In The Ancient Novel

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The Construction of the Real and the Ideal in the Ancient Novel

Author : Michael Paschalis,Stelios Panayotakis
Publisher : Barkhuis
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789491431258

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The Construction of the Real and the Ideal in the Ancient Novel by Michael Paschalis,Stelios Panayotakis Pdf

The present volume comprises thirteen of the papers delivered at RICAN 5, which was held in Rethymnon, Crete, on May 25-26,2009. The theme of the volume, ‘The Construction of the Real and the Ideal in the Ancient Novel,’ allows the contributors the freedom to use their skills to examine the real and the ideal either individually or in conjunction or in interaction. The papers offer a wide and rich range of perspectives: a political reading of prose fiction in Late Period Egypt (Selden); the presence of robbers and murderers in ideal fiction (Dowden); the interaction between illusion and reality in novelistic ekphrasis (Zeitlin); divine loves as real precedents for human loves (Rosati); comical elements in Heliodorus’ Aethiopika (Doody); myths as paradigms for the inexperienced lovers in the Greek novels (Létoublon); moral ideas in the Odyssey and the Greek novels in relation to moralizing interpretations of Homer (Montiglio); the reality of the basic plot of Callirhoe in the light of historical events and Aristotle’s Poetics (Paschalis); the interaction between fictionality and reality in Daphnis and Chloe (Bowie); entrapment and insufficient understanding of reality in the Satyrica (Labate); fantasy, physical and ideal landscapes in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses (König); bridging the gap between Photis (real) and Isis (ideal) in Apuleius (Carver); the gendered aesthetics of the Greek novels viewed through the lens of the mimetic theory of Dionysius of Halicarnassus (Whitmarsh).

Ideal Themes in the Greek and Roman Novel

Author : Jean Alvares
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000456516

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Ideal Themes in the Greek and Roman Novel by Jean Alvares Pdf

This book explores the areas in which novels such as Chariton’s Callirhoe and Heliodorus’s Aithiopika are ideal beyond the ideal love relationship and considers how concepts of the ideal connect to archetypal and literary patterns as well as reflecting contemporary ideological and cultural elements. Readers will gain a better understanding of how necessary is an understanding of these ideal elements to a full understanding of the novels’ possible readings and their reader’s attitudes. This book sets forth critical methods, subsequently followed, which allows for this exploration of ideal themes. Ideal Themes in the Greek and Roman Novel will be an invaluable resource for scholars of these novels, as well as ancient narratives and classical literature more generally. Scholars of cultural and utopian studies will also find the book useful, as well as some undergraduate students in all these areas.

Slaves and Masters in the Ancient Novel

Author : Stelios Panayotakis,Michael Paschalis
Publisher : Barkhuis
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789493194045

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Slaves and Masters in the Ancient Novel by Stelios Panayotakis,Michael Paschalis Pdf

The present volume contains revised versions of most of the papers that were delivered at RICAN 7, which was held in Rethymnon, Crete, on 27-28 May 2013. The focus of the conference was on the portrayal and function of male and female slaves and their masters/mistresses in the ancient novel and related texts; the complex relationship between these social categories raises questions about slavery and freedom, gender and identity, stability of the self and social mobility, social control and social death. The papers offer a wide and rich range of perspectives: enslavement of elite women in Chariton's Callirhoe and Stoic ideas of moral slavery in Dio Chrysostom (Hilton); reversal of social status and techniques of (self-)characterization in Chariton (De Temmerman); the interaction between implicit and explicit narratives of slavery in Chariton and its effect on the readers of the novel (Owens); the narratological, structural and symbolic centrality of slavery in Xenophon's Ephesiaka (Trzaskoma); the socio-historical dimensions of slavery and the prominent discourse on despotism in Iamblichus' Babyloniaka (Dowden); the balance between historical accuracy and fiction in the representation of slavery in Achilles Tatius (Billault); animals, human slaves and elite masters, and the presence of Rome in Longus' Daphnis and Chloe (Bowie); the distribution of slaves on the geographical, cultural and moral maps drawn in Heliodorus' Aithiopika (Montiglio); slave women and their relationships to their mistresses as positive and negative paradigms of love in Heliodorus' Aithiopika (Morgan and Repath); the freedman's world as a self-perpetuating and closed universe in Petronius' Satyrica (Bodel); beauty, slavery and the destabilization of societal norms and authority figures in Petronius' Satyrica (Panayotakis); the interaction between Roman comedy and elegy in the representation of the relationship of Lucius and Photis in Apuleius' Metamorphoses (May); a comparative analysis of the semantics and function of slavery-related terms in pseudo-Lucian's Onos and Apuleius' Metamorphoses (Paschalis); enslaved and free storytelling in the Life of Aesop and the history and evolution of the ancient fable tradition (Lefkowitz).

Re-Wiring The Ancient Novel, 2 Volume set

Author : Edmund Cueva,Stephen Harrison,Hugh Mason,William Owens,Saundra Schwartz
Publisher : Barkhuis
Page : 773 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789492444691

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Re-Wiring The Ancient Novel, 2 Volume set by Edmund Cueva,Stephen Harrison,Hugh Mason,William Owens,Saundra Schwartz Pdf

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.

The Reality of Women in the Universe of the Ancient Novel

Author : María Paz López Martínez,Carlos Sánchez-Moreno Ellart,Ana Belén Zaera García
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789027249289

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The Reality of Women in the Universe of the Ancient Novel by María Paz López Martínez,Carlos Sánchez-Moreno Ellart,Ana Belén Zaera García Pdf

This volume gathers chapters related to the condition of women in the ancient novel. To broaden the perspective, it integrates not only papers dealing with the Greek and Roman novel as a literary genre in its own right, but also as a historical document involving aspects as diverse as history, archaeology, sociology and the history of law. The twenty-six contributions in this volume have been divided into thematic blocks, based on the different approaches that the authors have adopted to tackle the subject. The first block is about realia – the reality in which the fiction has been conceived. The second block focuses on the legal problems that can be deduced from the plots of the novels. The third block encompasses deals with the Greek and Roman novel from the point of view of classical philology, literary criticism and literary theory, with chapters dedicated to the tradition of the ancient novel, both in our most immediate cultural area (Middle Ages, Spanish Golden Age) and in other contexts, whether Indo-European (India, Persia) or of a different origin.

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

Author : Marília P. Futre Pinheiro,Judith Perkins,Richard Pervo
Publisher : Barkhuis
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9789491431524

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The Ancient Novel and Early Christian and Jewish Narrative: Fictional Intersections by Marília P. Futre Pinheiro,Judith Perkins,Richard Pervo Pdf

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.

Latin Poetry in the Ancient Greek Novels

Author : Daniel Jolowicz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192894823

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Latin Poetry in the Ancient Greek Novels by Daniel Jolowicz Pdf

"This work establishes and explores connections between Greek imperial literature and Latin poetry. As such, it challenges conventional thinking about literary and cultural interaction of the period, which assumes that imperial Greeks are not much interested in Roman cultural products (especially literature). Instead, it argues that Latin poetry is a crucially important frame of reference for Greek imperial literature. This has significant ramifications, bearing on the question of bilingual allusion and intertextuality, as well as on that of cultural interaction during the imperial period more generally. The argument mobilizes the Greek novels-a literary form that flourished under the Roman empire, offering narratives of love, separation, and eventual reunion in and around the Mediterranean basin-as a series of case studies. Three of these novels in particular-Chariton's Chaereas and Callirhoe, Achilles Tatius' Clitophon and Leucippe, and Longus' Daphnis and Chloe-are analysed for the extent to which they allude to Latin poetry, and for the effects (literary and ideological) of such allusion. After an Introduction that establishes the cultural context and parameters of the study, each chapter pursues the strategies of an individual novelist in connection with Latin poetry: Chariton and Latin love elegy (Chapter 1); Chariton and Ovidian epistles and exilic poetry (Chapter 2); Chariton and Vergil's Aeneid (Chapter 3); Achilles Tatius and Latin love elegy (Chapter 4); Achilles Tatius and Vergil's Aeneid (Chapter 5); Achilles Tatius and the theme of bodily destruction in Ovid's Metamorphoses, Lucan's Bellum Civile, and Seneca's Phaedra (Chapter 6); Longus and Vergil's Eclogues, Georgics, and Aeneid (Chapter 7). The work offers the first book-length study of the role of Latin literature in Greek literary culture under the empire, and thus provides fresh perspectives and new approaches to the literature and culture of this period"--

Egypt, Ethiopia, and the Greek Novel

Author : Robert Cioffi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192870537

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Egypt, Ethiopia, and the Greek Novel by Robert Cioffi Pdf

In this richly detailed study, Robert Cioffi explores the signficance of the Nile River Valley as the geographic centre of the ancient Greek novel during the genre's heyday in the Roman empire. He shows how the region is repeatedly portrayed in these fictions as a dual-site of ethnographic representation and of resistance to imperial power.

Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture: Volume 2, Comedy, Herodotus, Hellenistic and Imperial Greek Poetry, the Novels

Author : Ewen Bowie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1071 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781009353526

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Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture: Volume 2, Comedy, Herodotus, Hellenistic and Imperial Greek Poetry, the Novels by Ewen Bowie Pdf

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.

Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture

Author : Ewen Bowie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1071 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107058125

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Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture by Ewen Bowie Pdf

Assembles a major scholar's work on Hellenistic and Imperial Greek poetry and the novels over four decades, illustrating its evolution.

Some Organic Readings in Narrative, Ancient and Modern

Author : Ian Repath,Fritz-Gregor Herrmann
Publisher : Barkhuis
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789492444974

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Some Organic Readings in Narrative, Ancient and Modern by Ian Repath,Fritz-Gregor Herrmann Pdf

This volume in honour of John Morgan contains seventeen essays by colleagues, research students, and post-doctoral researchers who have worked with and been influenced by him during his 40 years in Swansea, up to and beyond his retirement in 2015. It is designed to reflect the esteem and affection in which the honorand is held, as teacher, supervisor, colleague, and friend. All the contributions reflect John Morgan's interests, with a particular focus on narrative, which has always been at the forefront of his teaching and research: he has elucidated the forms, structures, strategies, and functions of numerous ancient narratives, especially fictional, in a voluminous body of scholarship. The contributors consider a wide range of narratives, extending from those which show the influence of older stories on the beginnings of ancient Greek civilisation, through various narrative genres in different periods of antiquity, and up to later eras when the impact of Greek and Roman learning, stories, and ideas has been felt. The core of this volume contains discussions of narratives from the Roman imperial period, since this is the area to which the majority of John Morgan's work has been devoted and where his research has seen him become a world-leader in the study of the ancient Greek novel. Several of the contributions, at various stages of development, were delivered and discussed at gatherings organised under the aegis of KYKNOS, the Centre for Research on the Narrative Literatures of the Ancient World, which was established at Swansea in 2004 at John Morgan's initiative.

The Ass of the Gods: Apuleius' Golden Ass, the Onos Attributed to Lucian, and Graeco-Roman Metamorphosis Literature

Author : Kristopher F.B. Fletcher
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004537170

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The Ass of the Gods: Apuleius' Golden Ass, the Onos Attributed to Lucian, and Graeco-Roman Metamorphosis Literature by Kristopher F.B. Fletcher Pdf

Apuleius’ Golden Ass and the Lucianic Loukios, or the Ass depend on and play with readers’ familiarity with the clear patterns of Greek and Roman stories of metamorphosis. The formulaic nature of these stories suggests that the appearance of a god at the end of the Golden Ass is unsurprising and that the end of the Loukios is more innovative. This context also sheds new light on the function of the Cupid and Psyche story, the meaning of these works’ titles, and the lost Metamorphoseis on which they are both based and of which the Golden Ass is a translation.

Culture and Society in Crete

Author : Liana Giannakopoulou,E. Kostas Skordyles
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527512115

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Culture and Society in Crete by Liana Giannakopoulou,E. Kostas Skordyles Pdf

Crete has always attracted the interest of scholars in modern times not only because of the archaeological discoveries of Sir Arthur Evans, but also because of its rich history and the particular cultural traits and traditions resulting from the fact that the island has been at the centre of geographical, cultural and religious crossroads. The fifteen papers included in this volume explore original aspects of the Cretan cultural and historical tradition, give original insights into already established fields and underline from the vantage point of their own particular discipline its distinctive character and impact. As a result of such a thematic variety, this volume will be of interest not only to scholars and students of modern Greek studies, but also Renaissance Studies, comparative literature, cultural and social history and anthropology, and travel literature, as well as historical linguistics and dialectology.

Mythological Narratives

Author : Anna Lefteratou
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110528695

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Mythological Narratives by Anna Lefteratou Pdf

This book is about the bold, beautiful, and faithful heroines of the Greek novels and their mythical models, such as Iphigenia, Phaedra, Penelope, and Helen. The novels manipulate readerly expectations through a complex web of mythical variants and constantly negotiate their adventure and erotic plot with that of traditional myths becoming, thus, part of the imperial mythical revision to which they add the prospect of a happy ending.

Holy Men and Charlatans in the Ancient Novel

Author : Stelios Panayotakis,Gareth Schmeling,Michael Paschalis
Publisher : Barkhuis
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789491431920

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Holy Men and Charlatans in the Ancient Novel by Stelios Panayotakis,Gareth Schmeling,Michael Paschalis Pdf

The present volume comprises the papers delivered at RICAN 6, which was held in Rethymnon, Crete, on May 30-31, 2011. The focus is placed on male and female characters in the ancient novel and related texts, both pagan and Christian; these characters are presented either as holy or as charlatans but in several cases the two categories cannot be easily distinguished from each other. The papers offer a wide and rich range of perspectives.