Research Catalog

Title

Metaphor and the ancient novel / edited by Stephen Harrison, Michael Paschalis, Stavros Frangoulidis.

Publication

Groningen : Barkhuis Publishing ; Groningen : Groningen University Library, 2005.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Frangoulidis, Stavros A.
• Harrison, S. J.
• Paschalis, Michael

Description

xiii, 281 p.; 25 cm.

Series Statement

Ancient narrative. Supplementum, 1568-3540 ; 4

Uniform Title

Ancient narrative. Supplementum 4.

Subject

• Metaphor
• Classical literature > History and criticism
• Classical fiction > History and criticism
• Metaphor in literature

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• "... a collection of revised versions of papers originally read at the Second Rethymnon International Conference on the Ancient Novel (RICAN 2) under the same title, held at the University of Crete, Rethymnon, on May 19-20, 2003" (p. [vii]).

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Metaphor, gender and the ancient Greek novel / Helen Morales -- Greek novel and the ritual of life: an exercise in taxonomy / Ken Dowden -- Callirhoe: God-like beauty and the making of a celebrity / Gareth Schmeling -- The narrator as hunter: Longus, Virgil and Theocritus / Michael Paschalis -- Metaphor in Daphnis and Chloe / Ewen Bowie -- Heliodorus smiles / Tim Whitmarsh -- And there's another country: translation as metaphor in Heliodorus / Niall W. Slater -- 'Philip the Philosopher' on the Aithiopika of Heliodorus / Richard Hunter -- Trimalchio: naming power / Judith Perkins -- 'Waves of emotion': an epic metaphor in Apuleius' Metamorphoses / Stephen Harrison -- Sweet and dangerous? A literary metaphor (aures permulcere) in Apuleius' Prologue / Luca Graverini -- A pivotal metaphor in Apuleius' Metamorphoses: Aristomenes' and Lucius' death and rebirth / Stavros Frangoulidis -- Real and metaphorical mimicking birds in the Metamorphoses of Apuleius / Paula James -- Metaphor and the riddle of representation in the Historia Apollonii regis Tyri / Andrew Laird -- Metaphor and politics in John Barclay's Argenis (1621) / Catherine Connors.

ISBN

9077922032 (hd.bd.)

OCLC

• 60677150
• SCSB-11055551

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library