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Title The romance between Greece and the East / edited by Tim Whitmarsh and Stuart Thomson.

Publication Info. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
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Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Subject Greek fiction -- History and criticism.
Greek fiction.
Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- To 1500.
Narration (Rhetoric)
History.
Chronological Term To 1500
Subject Comparative literature -- Greek and Middle Eastern.
Comparative literature.
Comparative literature -- Middle Eastern and Greek.
Greece -- Civilization -- Middle Eastern influences.
Greece.
Civilization.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Added Author Whitmarsh, Tim, editor.
Thomson, Stuart, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Romance between Greece and the East 9781107038240 (DLC) 2013011404 (OCoLC)841039523
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