TY - BOOK AU - Whitmarsh,Tim AU - Thomson,Stuart TI - The romance between Greece and the East SN - 9781107543003 AV - PA 3010 .R66 2015 PY - 2015/// CY - Cambridge, United Kingdom PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Greek fiction KW - History and criticism KW - Narration (Rhetoric) KW - History KW - To 1500 KW - Comparative literature KW - Greek and Middle Eastern KW - Middle Eastern and Greek KW - Retorica KW - gtt KW - Vergelijkende literatuurwetenschap KW - Civilization KW - Middle Eastern influences KW - fast KW - Greece KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -