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Greek and Roman stories of origin, aetia, pervade ancient literature. By studying a broad range of texts and closely examining aetia from archaic and Hellenistic Greece, Augustan Rome, and early Christian literature, Time in Ancient Stories of Origin traces the changing forms of stories of origin and the underlying changing attitudes to time.

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Greek and Roman stories of origin, aetia, pervade ancient literature. By studying a broad range of texts and closely examining aetia from archaic and Hellenistic Greece, Augustan Rome, and early Christian literature, Time in Ancient Stories of Origin traces the changing forms of stories of origin and the underlying changing attitudes to time.
Autorenporträt
Anke Walter is Lecturer in Classics at Newcastle University. She was previously Assistant Professor in Classics at the University of Rostock in Germany and Feodor-Lynen Research Scholar at the University of Virginia, funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. She completed her PhD in Heidelberg in 2011, with a thesis on storytelling in Flavian epic. Her primary research interests are the construction of time in ancient literature, stories of origin, and ancient (especially Latin) epic poetry. Walter has co-edited a volume on the narrative structures of stories of origin and has published numerous articles on Flavian epic, stories of origin, and their reception.