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UNINA9910453236403321 |
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Titolo |
The romance between Greece and the East / / edited by Tim Whitmarsh and Stuart Thomson [[electronic resource]] |
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Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013 |
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1-139-89183-9 |
1-107-46145-6 |
1-107-54300-2 |
1-107-46513-3 |
1-107-46865-5 |
1-107-47220-2 |
1-139-81469-9 |
1-107-47321-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xii, 396 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Greek fiction - History and criticism |
Narration (Rhetoric) - History - To 1500 |
Comparative literature - Greek and Middle Eastern |
Comparative literature - Middle Eastern and Greek |
Greece Civilization Middle Eastern influences |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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The romance between Greece and the East / Tim Whitmarsh -- 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 -- 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 Wiesehöfer -- Iskander and the idea of Iran / Daniel L. Selden -- Josephus' Esther and diaspora Judaism / Emily |
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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 Ní Mheallaigh -- Milesiae Punicae : how Punic was Apuleius? / Stephen Harrison -- The victory of Greek Ionia in Xenophon's Ephesiaca / Aldo Tagliabue -- Milesian tales / Ewen Bowie -- 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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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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