| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 278 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: Beyond the Second Sophistic and into the Postclassical; PART ONE. FICTION BEYOND THE CANON; 1. The "Invention of Fiction"; 2. The Romance of Genre; 3. Belief in Fiction: Euhemerus of Messene and the Sacred Inscription; 4. An I for an I: Reading Fictional Autobiography; 5. Metamorphoses of the Ass; 6. Addressing Power: Fictional Letters between Alexander and Darius; 7. Philostratus's Heroicus: Fictions of Hellenism; 8. Mimesis and the Gendered Icon in Greek Theory and Fiction; PART TWO. POETRY AND PROSE |
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9. Greek Poets and Roman Patrons in the Late Republic and Early Empire10. The Cretan Lyre Paradox: Mesomedes, Hadrian, and the Poetics of Patronage; 11. Lucianic Paratragedy; 12. Quickening the Classics: The Politics of Prose in Roman Greece; PART THREE. BEYOND THE GREEK SOPHISTIC; 13. Politics and Identity in Ezekiel's Exagoge; 14. Adventures of the Solymoi; References; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Z |
| Summary |
What happened to Greek literature after the classical period - when Sophocles, Plato, and Demosthenes were just a memory? Post-classical Greek culture has usually been thought of as dominated by aristocratic elites obsessed with preserving links to the past. This book proposes a very different model. Covering popular fiction, poetry, and Greco-Jewish material, it argues for a rich, dynamic, and diverse culture that cannot be reduced to a simple model of continuity |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
Greek literature -- Rome -- History and criticism
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Greek literature -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Ancient & Classical.
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- General.
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Greek literature
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Rome (Empire)
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2013002937 |
| ISBN |
9780520957022 |
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0520957024 |
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0520276817 |
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9780520276819 |
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