Parthenope
Parthenope

Author: Tomas Hägg

Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 502

ISBN-13: 9788772899077

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This collection of studies is a sequel to Hägg's popular survey The Novel in Antiquity (1983), and a companion volume to his recent The Virgin and her Lover (with B. Utas, 2003). Parthenope offers an indexed version of his main contributions in the field, especially from the 1980s and 1990s, as well as previously unpublished work, a new introduction and a complete bibliography of the author. Apart from probing further into the literary world of Chariton, Xenophon, and Heliodoros, Hägg also widens the scope with studies on the Lives of Aesop and Apollonios of Tyana and on the oriental reception of the Greek novel.

The Novel in the Ancient World
The Novel in the Ancient World

Author: Gareth L. Schmeling

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-12-28

Total Pages: 920

ISBN-13: 9004496432

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

From classics and history to Jewish rabbinic narratives and the canonical and noncanonical gospels of earliest Christianity, the relevance of studying the novel of the later classical periods of Greek and Rome is widely endorsed. Ancient novels contain insights beyond literary theories and philosophical musings to new sources for understanding the popular culture of antiquity. Some scholars, in fact, refer to ancient novels as “alternative histories,” for they tell history implicitly rather than with the intentional biases of the historian. The Novel in the Ancient World surveys the new approaches and insights to the ancient novel and wrestles with issues such as the development, transformation, and christianization of the novel (Spirit-inspired versus inspired by the Muses). This publication has also been published in hardback, please click here for details.

Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture
Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture

Author: Ewen Bowie

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2023-07-31

Total Pages: 1071

ISBN-13: 1107058120

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

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

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

Published: 2023-06-30

Total Pages: 1071

ISBN-13: 1009353527

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

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.

Narrative and Identity in the Ancient Greek Novel
Narrative and Identity in the Ancient Greek Novel

Author: Tim Whitmarsh

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2011-04-07

Total Pages: 313

ISBN-13: 1139500589

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The Greek romance was for the Roman period what epic was for the Archaic period or drama for the Classical: the central literary vehicle for articulating ideas about the relationship between self and community. This book offers a reading of the romance both as a distinctive narrative form (using a range of narrative theories) and as a paradigmatic expression of identity (social, sexual and cultural). At the same time it emphasises the elasticity of romance narrative and its ability to accommodate both conservative and transformative models of identity. This elasticity manifests itself partly in the variation in practice between different romancers, some of whom are traditionally Hellenocentric while others are more challenging. Ultimately, however, it is argued that it reflects a tension in all romance narrative, which characteristically balances centrifugal against centripetal dynamics. This book will interest classicists, historians of the novel and students of narrative theory.

Apuleius: Cupid and Psyche
Apuleius: Cupid and Psyche

Author: Apuleius

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1990-12-06

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780521278133

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Apuleius' story of Cupid and Psyche, the relationship of the human Soul with divine Love, is one of the great allegories of world literature. It forms an integral part of and profoundly illuminates the message of his novel Metamorphoses or The Golden Ass, which relates the adventures of a young man and his spiritual fall and redemption. To enrich and deepen his basic plot, the origins of which are obscure, Apuleius has combined poetic sources, Platonic philosophy and popular iconography in an unprecedented tour de force of literary creation. This edition sensitively elucidates the subtle art with which this transformation has been accomplished, and comprehensively illustrates both Apuleius' inventive handling of his various models and sources and the exuberant and idiosyncratic Latinity with forms the vehicle for it. It places in a fresh light the results of recent work on the ancient Novel and on Apuleius himself, and offers a stimulating, occasionally provocative, reading of his much-discussed text. The Latin is accompanied by a facing English translation, making the edition more accessible to students of comparative literature as well as to classicists.

A History of Roman Literature (2 vols.)
A History of Roman Literature (2 vols.)

Author: M. von Albrecht

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2019-09-16

Total Pages: 1864

ISBN-13: 9004329900

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Michael von Albrecht's A History of Roman Literature, originally published in German, can rightly be seen as the long awaited counterpart to Albin Lesky's Geschichte der Griechischen Literatur. In what will probably be the last survey made by a single scholar the whole of Latin literature from Livius Andronicus up to Boethius comes to the fore. 'Literature' is taken here in its broad, antique sense, and therefore also includes e.g. rhetoric, philosophy and history. Special attention has been given to the influence of Latin literature on subsequent centuries down to our own days. Extensive indices give access to this monument of learning. The introductions in Von Albrecht's texts, together with the large bibliographies make further study both more fruitful and easy.

Fashioning the Feminine in the Greek Novel
Fashioning the Feminine in the Greek Novel

Author: Katharine Haynes

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9780415262095

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The Greek novel plays a key part in the debate on gender in antiquity, forcing us to ask why the female protagonists are such strong and positive characters. This book shows how such heroines can be seen as a type of 'constructed feminine'.

Talking Animals
Talking Animals

Author: Jan M. Ziolkowski

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2016-11-11

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 1512809357

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Plutarch's Lives
Plutarch's Lives

Author: Tim Duff

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 9780199252749

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book lucidly explains how the Parallel Lives of Plutarch (c. AD 45-120) are more than mere `sources' for history. The Lives offer us a unique insight into the reception of Classical Greece and Republican Rome in the Greek world of the second century AD. They also explore and challenge issues of psychology, education, morality, and cultural identity.