The Romance between Greece and the East PDF
Edited by Tim (University of Oxford) Whitmarsh, Stuart (Corpus Christi College, Oxford) Thomson
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The contact zones between the Greco-Roman world and the Near East represent one of the most exciting and fast-moving areas of ancient-world studies.
This new collection of essays, by world-renowned experts (and some new voices) in classical, Jewish, Egyptian, Mesopotamian and Persian literature, focuses specifically on prose fiction, or 'the ancient novel'.
Twenty chapters either offer fresh readings - from an intercultural perspective - of familiar texts (such as the biblical Esther and Ecclesiastes, Xenophon of Ephesus' Ephesian Story and Dictys of Crete's Journal), or introduce material that may be new to many readers: from demotic Egyptian papyri through old Avestan hymns to a Turkic translation of the Life of Aesop.
The volume also considers issues of methodology and the history of scholarship on the topic.
A concluding section deals with the question of how narratives, patterns and motifs may have come to be transmitted between cultures.
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- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:29/11/2013
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Download - Immediately Available
- Format:PDF
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:29/11/2013
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- ISBN:9781107454415
