Romance between Greece and the East (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Whitmarsh, Tim

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781107461451
• Artikelnr.: 52835209

Inhaltsangabe

1. The romance between Greece and the East Tim Whitmarsh; Part I.
Egyptians: 2. Greek fiction and Egyptian fiction: are they related, and, if
so, how? Ian Rutherford; 3. Manetho John Dillery; 4. Imitatio Alexandri in
Egyptian literary tradition Kim Ryholt; 5. Divine anger management: the
Greek version of the myth of the sun's eye (P.Lond.Lit. 192) Stephanie
West; 6. Fictions of cultural authority Susan Stephens; Part II.
Mesopotamians and Iranians: 7. Berossus Johannes Haubold; 8. The Greek
novel Ninus and Semiramis: its background in Assyrian and Seleucid history
and monuments Stephanie Dalley; 9. Ctesias, the Achaemenid court, and the
history of the Greek novel Josef Wiesehöfer; 10. Iskander and the idea of
Iran Daniel Selden; Part III. Jews and Phoenicians: 11. Josephus' Esther
and Diaspora Judaism Emily Kneebone; 12. The eastern king in the Hebrew
Bible: novelistic motifs in early Jewish literature Jennie Barbour; 13.
'Lost in translation'? The Phoenician Journal of Dictys of Crete Karen Ní
Mheallaigh; 14. Milesiae Punicae: how Punic was Apuleius? Stephen Harrison;
Part IV. Anatolians: 15. The victory of Greek Ionia in Xenophon's Ephesiaca
Aldo Tagliabue; 16. Milesian tales Ewen Bowie; Part V. Transmission and
Reception: 17. Does triviality translate? The Life of Aesop travels east
Pavlos Avlamis; 18. Mime and the romance Ruth Webb; 19. Orality, folktales,
and the cross-cultural transmission of narrative Larry Kim; 20. History,
empire and the novel: Pierre-Daniel Huet and the origins of the romance
Phiroze Vasunia.