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Focusing on the latest, longest, and greatest of the ancient Greek romances, this volume exploring Heliodorus'
Aethiopica brings together fifteen established experts, each exploring a passage or section of the text in depth.
List of contents
- 1: Tim Whitmarsh: Introduction: Reading Heliodorus
- 2: Ewen Bowie: Odyssean and Herodotean Threads in the Tainia of Heliodorus' Opening Chapters (1.1-5)
- 3: Helen Morales: Visualizing Assemblages: Demaenete, Thisbe's Bed-Trick, and the Creation of Charicleia (1.15-17)
- 4: Jonas Grethlein: Thisbe's Intrigue: A Plot Between Deception and Illusion (1.15-17)
- 5: Stephen Trzaskoma: Theagenes' Second Lament (2.4)
- 6: Alain Billault: Cnemon meets Calasiris (2.21-2)
- 7: Lawrence Kim: Allegory and Recognition: The Egyptian Homer in Context (3.11.5-15.1)
- 8: Tim Whitmarsh: The Mustering of the Delphians (4.19-21)
- 9: Michael Paschalis: Calasiris on Zacynthus and his dream of Odysseus (5.17-22)
- 10: Ken Dowden: Life, the Cosmos, and Everything (5.26-34)
- 11: Silvia Montiglio: On the Road Again (6.1-4)
- 12: David Konstan: Charicleia's Dark Night of the Soul (6.8-11)
- 13: Richard Hunter: Epic into Drama (7.6-8)
- 14: Froma Zeitlin: Enter Arsace and her Entourage! Lust, Gender, Ethnicity, and Class at the Persian Court (Books 7 and 8)
- 15: Ian Repath: Sending the Reader Round the Bend (8.14-17)
- 16: Ruth Webb: The Siege of Syene: Ekphrasis and Imagination (9.3)
- 17: Tim Whitmarsh: To Infinity and Beyond (10.41.3)
- 18: Ian Repath: History, Romance, Realism? (10.41.3)
About the author
Ian Repath is Senior Lecturer in Classics at Swansea University, having held posts previously at the University of Warwick, the University of Nottingham, and the University of Wales Lampeter. He researches and teaches on ancient fiction, with a particular focus on the Greek novels, including Heliodorus. Since the retirement of John Morgan in 2015, he has been leader of KYKNOS, the Centre for Research on the Narrative Literatures of the Ancient World, and has led the specialist MA in Ancient Narrative Literature.
Tim Whitmarsh is the A. G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture at the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of St John's College. A specialist in the literature, culture, and religion of ancient Greece, he is the author of 9 books, including Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient World (Knopf 2015) and Dirty Love: The Genealogy of the Ancient Greek Novel (OUP 2018). He also edits the Oxford Classical Dictionary (5th edition). He has written over 80 academic articles, lectured across the world, and contributed frequently to newspapers such as The Guardian, the Times Literary Supplement, and the London Review of Books, as well as to BBC radio and television.
Summary
Focusing on the latest, longest, and greatest of the ancient Greek romances, this volume exploring Heliodorus' Aethiopica brings together fifteen established experts, each exploring a passage or section of the text in depth.
