The Romance between Greece and the East

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Tim Whitmarsh (University of Oxford) Stuart Thomson (Corpus Christi College, Oxford)

The Romance between Greece and the East

Tim Whitmarsh (University of Oxford), Stuart Thomson (Corpus Christi College, Oxford)

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Cambridge University Press
14 November 2013

Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; History; Archaeology by period & region; Biblical archaeology; Old Testaments

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.

Edited by: Tim Whitmarsh (University of Oxford), Stuart Thomson (Corpus Christi College, Oxford)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 160mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 730g
ISBN: 9781107038240
ISBN 10: 1107038243
Pages: 495
Publication Date: 14 November 2013
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Tim Whitmarsh is Professor of Ancient Literatures and E. P. Warren Praelector, Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He has published widely on ancient prose fiction, including Narrative and Identity in the Ancient Greek Novel: Returning Romance (Cambridge University Press, 2011), and edited The Cambridge Companion to the Greek and Roman Novel (Cambridge University Press, 2008). He is currently writing a book on religious scepticism in antiquity. Stuart Thomson is a doctoral student at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, specialising on Clement of Alexandria.