Crafting Characters - Heroes and Heroines in the Ancient Greek Novel

This study analyses the characterization of the protagonists in the five extant 'ideal' Greek novels. De Temmerman offers close readings of techniques of characterization used in each novel and combines modern-mainly, but not exclusively, structuralist-narratology and ancient rhetoric.

About the author

Koen De Temmerman is a Research Professor at Ghent University. He is also a visiting member of the Classics Centre at Corpus Christi College, Oxford.

Summary

This study analyses the characterization of the protagonists in the five extant 'ideal' Greek novels. De Temmerman offers close readings of techniques of characterization used in each novel and combines modern--mainly, but not exclusively, structuralist--narratology and ancient rhetoric.

Additional text

Lucid writing combined with a persuasive argument and great attention to detail results in a highly accessible book that will be of great interest to scholars of the ancient novel and literary characterisation alike.

Product details

• Authors: Koen De Temmerman, Koen (Research Professor At Ghent Un De Temmerman, De Temmerman Koen
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.02.2014
• EAN: 9780199686148
• ISBN: 978-0-19-968614-8
• No. of pages: 420
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Griechenland, Texte: Antike und Mittelalter, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Ancient & Classical, History - General History, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form