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Author International Conference on the Ancient Novel (4th : 2008 : Lisbon, Portugal), creator.

Title Philosophy and the ancient novel / edited by Marília P. Futre Pinheiro and Silvia Montiglio
Published Eelde, The Netherlands : Barkhuis Publishing ; Groningen : Groningen University Library, [2015]
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 179 pages)
Series Ancient Narrative. Supplementum ; 20
Ancient narrative. Supplementum ; 20.
Contents Growing backwards: the Cena Trimalchionis and Plato's Aesthetics of Mimesis / Ourania Molyviati -- Stoics in the ocean: Iambulus' novel as philosophical fiction / Peter Von Möllendorff -- The caring gods: Daphnis and Chloe as Pronoia literature / Ursula Bittrich -- Tales of Utopia: Alexander, Cynics and Christian Ascetics / Richard Stoneman -- Targeting the 'intellectuals': Dio of Prusa and the Vita Aesopi / Stefano Jedrkiewicz -- Only halfway to happiness: a platonic reading of Apuleius' Golden Ass / Walter Englert -- Ex alienis uocibus: platonic demonology and Socratic superstition in Apuleius' Metamorphoses / Richard Fletcher -- The Platonic eros of art in the ancient Greek novel / Vernon Provencal -- Platonic perversions: horror and the irrational in the Greek novel / Steven D. Smith -- Apollonios of Tyana and the Gymnoi of Ethiopia / Gary Reger
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 4, 2018)
Subject Literature, Ancient.
Philosophy, Ancient, in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Ancient & Classical.
Literature, Ancient
Philosophy, Ancient, in literature
Form Electronic book
Author Futre Pinheiro, M. (Marília), editor.
Montiglio, Silvia, 1960- editor.
Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, host institution.
ISBN 9789491431937
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