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The construction of the real and the ideal in the ancient novel / edited by Michael Paschalis and Stelios Panayotakis.

Title
The construction of the real and the ideal in the ancient novel / edited by Michael Paschalis and Stelios Panayotakis.
Author
Rethymnon International Conferences on the Ancient Novel, RICAN (5 : 2009 : Crete, Greece)
Publication
Eelde : Barkhuis ; Groningen : Groningen University Library, 2013.

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Additional Authors
  • Paschalis, Michael
  • Panayotakis, Stelios, 1968-
  • The Construction of the Real and the Ideal in the Ancient Novel (2009 : Crete)
Description
xvi, 312 p. : ill., (some col.), map; 25 cm.
Series Statement
Ancient narrative. Supplementum, 1574-5066 ; 17
Uniform Title
Ancient narrative. Supplementum 17.
Subject
  • Greek fiction > History and criticism > Congresses
  • Classical fiction > History and criticism > Congresses
  • Reality in literature > Congresses
  • Idealism in literature > Congresses
  • Greek prose literature, Hellenistic > History and criticism > Congresses
  • Greek prose literature, Hellenistic > Themes, motives > Congresses
  • Ideals (Philosophy) in literature
  • Greek fiction, Hellenistic > History and criticism > Congresses
  • Egyptian literature > Greek influences
Genre/Form
Conference papers and proceedings
Note
  • Papers presented at RICAN 5, which was held in Rethymnon, Crete, on May 25-26, 2009.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Language (note)
  • In English; includes some texts in Latin and ancient Greek.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The political economy of romance in late period Egypt / Daniel L. Selden -- 'But there is a difference in the ends ... ' : brigands and teleology in the ancient novel / Ken Dowden -- Landscapes and portraits : signs of the uncanny and illusions of the real / Froma I. Zeitlin -- The loves of the gods : literature as construction of a space of pleasure / Gianpiero Rosati -- Comedy in Heliodoros' Aithiopika / Margaret Doody -- Mythological paradigns in the Greek novels / Françoise Létoublon -- 'His eyes stood as though of horn or steel' : Odysseus' fortitude and moral ideals in the Greek novels / Silvia Montiglio -- The basic plot of Callirhoe : history, myth, and Aristotelian Poetics / Michael Paschalis -- Caging grasshoppers : Longus' materials for weaving 'reality' / Ewen Bowie -- Tarde, immo iam sero intellexi : the real as puzzle in Petronius' Satyrica / Mario Labate -- Landscape and reality in Apuleius' Metamorphoses / Jason König -- Between Photis and Isis : fiction, reality, and the ideal in The golden ass of Apuleius / Robert H.F. Carver -- The erogics of mimēsis : gendered aesthetics in Greek theory and fiction / Tim Whitmarsh.
ISBN
  • 9789491431258 (hd.bd.)
  • 9491431250
OCLC
  • 849528526
  • SCSB-10768875
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library