The romance between Greece and the East / / edited by Tim Whitmarsh and Stuart Thomson [[electronic resource]]

• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 396 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 880.09
• Soggetto topico: Greek fiction - History and criticism; Narration (Rhetoric) - History - To 1500; Comparative literature - Greek and Middle Eastern; Comparative literature - Middle Eastern and Greek
• Soggetto geografico: Greece Civilization Middle Eastern influences
• Persona (resp. second.): WhitmarshTim; ThomsonStuart
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Altri titoli varianti: The Romance between Greece & the East
• Titolo autorizzato: Romance between Greece and the East
• ISBN: 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
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910453236403321
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