| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 312 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Ancient Narrative Supplementum ; v. 17 |
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Ancient narrative. Supplementum ; 17.
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| Contents |
The political economy of romance in late period Egypt / Daniel L. Selden -- 'But there is a difference in the ends ... ' : brigands and teleology in the ancient novel / Ken Dowden -- Landscapes and portraits : signs of the uncanny and illusions of the real / Froma I. Zeitlin -- The loves of the gods : literature as construction of a space of pleasure / Gianpiero Rosati -- Comedy in Heliodoros' Aithiopika / Margaret Doody -- Mythological paradigns in the Greek novels / Françoise Létoublon -- 'His eyes stood as though of horn or steel' : Odysseus' fortitude and moral ideals in the Greek novels / Silvia Montiglio -- The basic plot of Callirhoe : history, myth, and Aristotelian Poetics / Michael Paschalis -- Caging grasshoppers : Longus' materials for weaving 'reality' / Ewen Bowie -- Tarde, immo iam sero intellexi : the real as puzzle in Petronius' Satyrica / Mario Labate -- Landscape and reality in Apuleius' Metamorphoses / Jason König -- Between Photis and Isis : fiction, reality, and the ideal in The golden ass of Apuleius / Robert H.F. Carver -- The erogics of mimēsis : gendered aesthetics in Greek theory and fiction / Tim Whitmarsh |
| Summary |
The present volume comprises thirteen of the papers delivered at RICAN 5, which was held in Rethymnon, Crete, on May 25-26,2009. The theme of the volume, ' The Construction of the Real and the Ideal in the Ancient Novel, ' allows the contributors the freedom to use their skills to examine the real and the ideal either individually or in conjunction or in interaction. The papers offer a wide and rich range of perspectives: a political reading of prose fiction in Late Period Egypt (Selden); the presence of robbers and murderers in ideal fiction (Dowden); the interaction between illusion and reality in novelistic ekphrasis (Zeitlin); divine loves as real precedents for human loves (Rosati); comical elements in Heliodorus' Aethiopika (Doody);myths as paradigms for the inexperienced lovers in the Greek novels (Létoublon); moral ideas in the Odyssey and the Greek novels in relation to moralizing interpretations of Homer (Montiglio); the reality of the basic plot of Callirhoe in the light of historical events and Aristotle's Poetics (Paschalis); the interaction between fictionality and reality in Daphnis and Chloe (Bowie); entrapment and insu fficient understanding of reality in the Satyrica (Labate); fantasy, physical and ideal landscapes in Apuleius' Metamorphoses (König); bridging the gap between Photis (real) and Isis (ideal) in Apuleius (Carver); the gendered aesthetics of the Greek novels viewed through the lens of the mimetic theory of Dionysius of Halicarnassus (Whitmarsh) |
| Notes |
Papers presented at RICAN 5, which was held in Rethymnon, Crete, on May 25-26, 2009 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Greek prose literature, Hellenistic -- History and criticism -- Congresses
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Greek prose literature, Hellenistic -- Themes, motives -- Congresses
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Ideals (Philosophy) in literature.
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Greek fiction, Hellenistic -- History and criticism -- Congresses
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Egyptian literature -- Greek influences
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Literary.
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HISTORY -- Ancient -- General.
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Greek fiction, Hellenistic
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Greek prose literature, Hellenistic
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Ideals (Philosophy) in literature
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proceedings (reports)
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Actes de congrès.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Paschalis, Michael, editor
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Panayotakis, Stelios, 1968- editor.
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| ISBN |
9789491431531 |
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9491431536 |
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