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THE ROMANCE BETWEEN GREECE AND THE EAST
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| By: |
Tim Whitmarsh (Editor), Stuart Thomson (Editor) |
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Hardback |
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£109.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1107038243 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781107038240 |
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| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
14 November, 2013 |
| Pages: |
409 |
| Description: |
Twenty essays by renowned scholars explore contact between Greece and the Ancient Near East through the medium of prose fiction. |
| Synopsis: |
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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UK |
| Imprint: |
Cambridge University Press |
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