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Zusatztext Harrison (and Swain) are learned and judicious editors, and both volumes will no doubt find the wide markets they deserve...it is hard not to be impressed by the weight and density of scholarship to be found herein. This book comprises a new and exciting collection of critical work on the ancient Greek novel. It offers students and researchers twelve of the most influential studies of recent years together with an introduction, by the editor, which explores the nature of the Greek novel in its historical context. The most important Greek quotations have been rendered into English making these texts easily accessible to readers without Greek. Zusammenfassung Offers students and researchers twelve of the most influential studies along with an introduction which explains the nature of Greek fiction in the novel's heyday. This work also guides readers through the history of the novel's interpretation from the publication of Erwin Rhode's pioneering study of 1876 to contemporary literary theory. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Simon Swain: A Century and More of the Greek Novel 2: Ewen Bowie: The Greek Novel: The Genre 3: Massimo Fusillo: The Conflict of Emotions: a Topos in the Greek Erotic Novel 4: Suzanne Said: Rural Society in the Greek Novel, or The Country Seen from the Town 5: Brigitte Egger: The Role of Women in the Greek Novel: Woman as Heroine and Reader 6: Tomas Hagg: Callirhoe and Parthenope: The Beginnings of the Historical Novel 7: B. P. Reardon: Theme, Structure and Narrative in Chariton 8: Bernd Effe: Longos: Towards a History of Bucolic and its Function in the Roman Empire 9: Lia Raffaella Cresci: The Novel of Longos the Sophist and Pastoral Tradition 10: B.P.Reardon: Achilles Tatius and Ego-Narrative 11: J.R. Morgan: The Story of Knemon in Heliodoros' Aithiopka 12: John J. Winkler: The Mendacity of Kalasiris and the Narrative Strategy of Heliodoros' Aithiopika 13: Massimo Fusillo: The Mirror of the Moon. Lucian's A True Story - From Satire to Utopia ...
