Fantasy in Greek and Roman Literature

ISBN-13: 9780367139902 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 234 str.

Graham Anderson

Opis

Fantasy in Greek and Roman Literature offers an overview of Greek and Roman excursions into fantasy, including imaginary voyages, dream-worlds, talking animals and similar impossibilities.

Recenzje

"Anderson has opened a door through which future scholars of the fantastic in ancient literature can walk and wander, providing a guide to how and where to begin looking... There have been, and continue to be, those who argue that while there are certainly, and undoubtedly, fantastic elements in ancient tales, "fantasy" as a genre does not exist before the nineteenth century, a thesis Anderson has set out through a significant body of work spanning the first twenty years of this new millennium to disprove. Fantasy in Greek and Roman Literature offers an absorbing, charming, and thought-provoking new chapter in these efforts." - Bryn Mawr Classical Review

O autorze

Graham Anderson is Emeritus Professor of Classics at the University of Kent, UK. He has written extensively on ancient fiction and fantasy, including Fairytale in the Ancient World (Routledge, 2000) and Greek and Roman Folklore (2006). He has just completed an anthology of ancient fairy tales for Routledge.