Collected Ancient Greek Novels - 2nd Edition

Prose fiction, although not always associated with classical antiquity, flourished in the early Roman Empire, not only in realistic Latin novels but also and indeed principally in the Greek ideal romance of love and adventure. Enormously popular in the Renaissance, these stories have been less familiar in later centuries. Translations of the Greek stories were not readily available in English before B.P. Reardon's first appeared in 1989.Nine complete stories are included here as well as ten others, encompassing the whole range of classical themes: romance, travel, adventure, historical fiction, and comic parody. A foreword by J.R. Morgan examines the enormous impact this groundbreaking collection has had on our understanding of classical thought and our concept of the novel.

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• Authors: B. P. Reardon
• Assisted by: B P Reardon (Editor), B. P. Reardon (Editor), Reardon B. P. (Editor), J. R. Morgan (Foreword), Morgan J. R. (Foreword)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2019
• EAN: 9780520305595
• ISBN: 978-0-520-30559-5
• No. of pages: 984
• Dimensions: 126 mm x 198 mm x 41 mm
• Series: World Literature in Translation; World Literature in Translatio
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Classical linguistics / literary studies; Essays, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, Literary essays, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary