| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Part I. Egyptians -- part II. Mesopotamians and Iranians -- part III. Jews and Phoenicians -- part IV. Anatolians -- part V. Transmission and reception |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Greek fiction -- History and criticism
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Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- To 1500
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Comparative literature -- Greek and Middle Eastern
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Comparative literature -- Middle Eastern and Greek
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Ancient & Classical.
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Civilization -- Middle Eastern influences
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Greek fiction
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Narration (Rhetoric)
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Literatur
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Griechisch
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Grekiska romaner -- historia.
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Narratologi -- historia.
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Influenser.
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| SUBJECT |
Greece -- Civilization -- Middle Eastern influences.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92001056
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| Subject |
Greece
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Alter Orient
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Whitmarsh, Tim, editor.
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Thomson, Stuart, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781107465138 |
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1107465133 |
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9781461953593 |
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1461953596 |
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9781139814690 |
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1139814699 |
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9781107543003 |
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1107543002 |
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1139891839 |
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9781139891837 |
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1107461456 |
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9781107461451 |
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1107468655 |
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9781107468658 |
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1107472202 |
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9781107472204 |
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1107473217 |
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9781107473218 |
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