Collected Ancient Greek Novels Paperback / softback
Edited by B. P. Reardon
Part of the World Literature in Translation series
Paperback / softback
Description
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.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:984 pages
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:07/05/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9780520305595
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:984 pages
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:07/05/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9780520305595
