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The romance between Greece and the East / edited by Tim Whitmarsh and Stuart Thomson.
Publisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2015Description: xiv, 396 pages ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781107543003
- 1107543002
- To 1500
- Greek fiction -- History and criticism
- Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- To 1500
- Comparative literature -- Greek and Middle Eastern
- Comparative literature -- Middle Eastern and Greek
- Retorica
- Vergelijkende literatuurwetenschap
- Civilization -- Middle Eastern influences
- Greek fiction
- Narration (Rhetoric)
- Greece -- Civilization -- Middle Eastern influences
- Greece
- PA 3010 .R66 2015
Contents:
Summary: 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.--Publisher description.
The romance between Greece and the East / Tim Whitmarsh -- Part 1: Egyptians. Greek fiction and Egyptian fiction: are they related, and, if so, how? / Ian Rutherford -- Manetho / John Dillery -- Imitatio Alexandri in Egyptian literary tradition / Kim Ryholt -- Divine anger management : the Greek version of the Myth of the Sun's Eye (P. Lond. Lit. 192) / Stephanie West -- Fictions of cultural authority / Susan Stephens -- Part 2: Mesopotamians and Iranians. Berossus / Johannes Haubold -- The Greek novel Ninus and Semiramis : its background in Assyrian and Seleucid history and monuments / Stephanie Dalley -- Ctesias, the Achaemenid court, and the history of the Greek novel / Josef Wieseh�ofer -- Iskander and the idea of Iran / Daniel L. Selden -- Part 3: Jews and Phoenicians. Josephus' Esther and diaspora Judaism / Emily Kneebone -- The eastern king in the Hebrew Bible : novelistic motifs in early Jewish literature / Jennie Barbour -- Lost in translation : the Phoenician Journal of Dictys of Crete / Karen N�i Mheallaigh -- Milesiae Punicae : how Punic was Apuleius? / Stephen Harrison -- Part 4: Anatolians. The victory of Greek Ionia in Xenophon's Ephesiaca / Aldo Tagliabue -- Milesian tales / Ewen Bowie -- Part 5: Transmission and reception. Does triviality translate? : the Life of Aesop travels East / Pavlos Avlamis -- Mime and the romance / Ruth Webb -- Orality, folktales and the cross-cultural transmission of narrative / Lawrence Kim -- History, empire and the novel : Pierre-Daniel Huet and the origins of the romance / Phiroze Vasunia.
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American University in Dubai | American University in Dubai | Non-fiction | Main Collection | PA 3010 .R66 2015 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 5176141 |
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| PA 2025 .O94 2012 The Oxford handbook of medieval Latin literature / | PA 2087 .W734 1976 Progressive Latin comprehensions / | PA 2087.5 .M38 2010 Classical Latin : an introductory course / | PA 3010 .R66 2015 The romance between Greece and the East / | PA 3052 .B6 1967 Ancient Greek literature | PA 3071 .K58 1994 The oldest dead white European males and other reflections on the classics / | PA 3079 .W4 1959 Greek art and literature, 700-530 B.C.; the beginnings of modern civilization |
Originally published in 2013.
First paperback published in 2015.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The romance between Greece and the East / Tim Whitmarsh -- Part 1: Egyptians. Greek fiction and Egyptian fiction: are they related, and, if so, how? / Ian Rutherford -- Manetho / John Dillery -- Imitatio Alexandri in Egyptian literary tradition / Kim Ryholt -- Divine anger management : the Greek version of the Myth of the Sun's Eye (P. Lond. Lit. 192) / Stephanie West -- Fictions of cultural authority / Susan Stephens -- Part 2: Mesopotamians and Iranians. Berossus / Johannes Haubold -- The Greek novel Ninus and Semiramis : its background in Assyrian and Seleucid history and monuments / Stephanie Dalley -- Ctesias, the Achaemenid court, and the history of the Greek novel / Josef Wieseh�ofer -- Iskander and the idea of Iran / Daniel L. Selden -- Part 3: Jews and Phoenicians. Josephus' Esther and diaspora Judaism / Emily Kneebone -- The eastern king in the Hebrew Bible : novelistic motifs in early Jewish literature / Jennie Barbour -- Lost in translation : the Phoenician Journal of Dictys of Crete / Karen N�i Mheallaigh -- Milesiae Punicae : how Punic was Apuleius? / Stephen Harrison -- Part 4: Anatolians. The victory of Greek Ionia in Xenophon's Ephesiaca / Aldo Tagliabue -- Milesian tales / Ewen Bowie -- Part 5: Transmission and reception. Does triviality translate? : the Life of Aesop travels East / Pavlos Avlamis -- Mime and the romance / Ruth Webb -- Orality, folktales and the cross-cultural transmission of narrative / Lawrence Kim -- History, empire and the novel : Pierre-Daniel Huet and the origins of the romance / Phiroze Vasunia.
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.--Publisher description.
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