UID:
almahu_9947414968002882
Umfang:
1 online resource (xii, 396 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9781139814690 (ebook)
Inhalt:
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.
Anmerkung:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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The romance between Greece and the East /
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Greek fiction and Egyptian fiction: are they related, and, if so, how? /
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Manetho /
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Imitatio Alexandri in Egyptian literary tradition /
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Divine anger management : the Greek version of the Myth of the Sun's Eye (P. Lond. Lit. 192) /
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Fictions of cultural authority /
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Berossus /
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The Greek novel Ninus and Semiramis : its background in Assyrian and Seleucid history and monuments /
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Ctesias, the Achaemenid court, and the history of the Greek novel /
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Iskander and the idea of Iran /
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Josephus' Esther and diaspora Judaism /
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The eastern king in the Hebrew Bible : novelistic motifs in early Jewish literature /
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Lost in translation : the Phoenician Journal of Dictys of Crete /
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Milesiae Punicae : how Punic was Apuleius? /
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The victory of Greek Ionia in Xenophon's Ephesiaca /
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Milesian tales /
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Does triviality translate? : the Life of Aesop travels East /. Pavlos Avlamis --
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Mime and the romance /
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Orality, folktales and the cross-cultural transmission of narrative /
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History, empire and the novel : Pierre-Daniel Huet and the origins of the romance /
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version: ISBN 9781107038240
Sprache:
Englisch
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139814690
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