Greek Fiction: The Greek Novel in Context

ISBN-13: 9780415085076 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 304 str.

J. R. Morgan; Richard Stoneman

Opis

Greek fiction has been attracting greater attention as a result of new approaches associated with gender studies, narrative theory and the social analysis of ancient literature. Recent work on the novel, or romance has concentrated on the so-called canon of Greek fiction: Xenophon of Ephesus, Heliodorus, Longus, Chariton and Achilles Tatius. Much attention has been focused on the definition of the genre and its possible origins. This volume aims to widen the terms of the definition of the genre while providing a synoptic treatment of the most important works of Greek fiction. Greeks began writing prose fiction in the fourth century BC and the tradition continued for a millennium and a half. Fiction was used not only for entertaining romances but also as a framework for Christian and Jewish religious literature and for historical novels.

Spis treści

Introduction, J. R. Morgan; Part 1 The Beginnings of Greek Fiction; Chapter 1 The Education of Cyrus, James Tatum; Part 2 The Love Romances; Chapter 2 Looking at Chariton’s Callirhoe, Brigitte Egger; Chapter 3 Xenophon of Ephesus, David Konstan; Chapter 4 Daphnis and Chloe, J. R. Morgan; Chapter 5 Achilles Tatius and Ego-Narrative, B. P. Reardon; Chapter 6 The Aithiopika of Heliodoros, J. R. Morgan; Part 3 The Greek Context; Chapter 7 The Alexander Romance, Richard Stoneman; Chapter 8 New Pages of Greek Fiction, Gerald Sandy; Chapter 9 The Epistolary Novel, Patricia A. Rosenmeyer; Chapter 10 Dio and Lucian, Simon Swain; Chapter 11 Philostratus, Ewen Bowie; Part 4 Other Traditions; Chapter 12 Egyptian Fiction in Demotic and Greek, John Tait; Chapter 13 The Jewish Novellas, Lawrence M. Wills; Chapter 14 Early Christian Fiction, Richard I. Pervo; Chapter 15 Representation in Greek Saints’ Lives, Judith Perkins; Part 5 Aftermath; Chapter 16 Byzantine Developments, Suzanne MacAlister;

O autorze

John Morgan is Lecturer in Classics at University College, Swansea. He has pub­lished extensively on ancient fiction. Richard Stoneman is a writer specialising in Greek history, culture and travel. He is the author of the Penguin translation of the Greek Alexander Romance. Cover illustration: Th, Favourite Pod by Lawrence Alma-Tadema, courtesy of the Board of Trustees of the National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside.