Achilles Tatius: Leucippe and Clitophon Books I–II
Achilles Tatius: Leucippe and Clitophon Books I–II

Author: Achilles Tatius

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-06-11

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 1107190363

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The first modern commentary in English on this most sophisticated and brilliant of ancient Greek novels. With its freewheeling plotline, its setting on the edge of the Greek world, its ironic play with the reader's expectations and its sallies into obscenity, it will appeal strongly to students and instructors.

Achilles Tatius: Leucippe and Clitophon Books I–II
Achilles Tatius: Leucippe and Clitophon Books I–II

Author: Tim Whitmarsh

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-06-11

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 1108119158

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The Greek Novels have moved from the margins to the centre-stage over recent decades, not just because of their literary qualities and thrilling narratives, but also because they offer revealing insights into the culture of the Greek world of the Roman Empire: sexual mores, the position of women and men, identity, religion. Achilles Tatius' Leucippe and Clitophon, the most influential of the novels in antiquity, remains the favourite of many. With its freewheeling plotline, its setting on the edge of the Greek world (in modern Lebanon), its ironic play with the reader's expectations and its sallies into obscenity, it represents a new, mature, sophisticated stage in the development of the novel as a genre. This is the first commentary in English on Achilles for over 50 years, a period that has seen great strides forward in the understanding of the literary, linguistic and textual interpretation of this brilliant text.

Leucippe And Clitophon
Leucippe And Clitophon

Author: Achilles Tatius

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2022-10-27

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781017777130

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Collected Ancient Greek Novels
Collected Ancient Greek Novels

Author: B. P. Reardon

Publisher: University of California Press

Published: 2019-05-07

Total Pages: 982

ISBN-13: 0520305590

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Prose fiction, although not always associated with classical antiquity, flourished in the early Roman Empire, not only in realistic Latin novels but also and indeed principally in the Greek ideal romance of love and adventure. Enormously popular in the Renaissance, these stories have been less familiar in later centuries. Translations of the Greek stories were not readily available in English before B.P. Reardon’s first appeared in 1989.Nine complete stories are included here as well as ten others, encompassing the whole range of classical themes: romance, travel, adventure, historical fiction, and comic parody. A foreword by J.R. Morgan examines the enormous impact this groundbreaking collection has had on our understanding of classical thought and our concept of the novel.