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Author Konstan, David.

Title Sexual Symmetry : Love in the Ancient Novel and Related Genres.

Publication Info. Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource (285 pages).
text file
Series Princeton Legacy Library
Princeton legacy library.
Note Cover; Contents.
Summary ""In the Greek romances, "" writes David Konstan, ""sighs, tears, and suicide attempts are as characteristic of the male as of the female in distress; ruses, disguises, and outright violence in defense of one's chastity are as much the part of the female as of the male."" Exploring how erotic love is represented in ancient amatory literature, Konstan points to the symmetry in the passion of the hero and heroine as a unique feature of the Greek novel: they fall mutually in love, they are of approximately the same age and social class, and their reciprocal attachment ends in marriage. He shows.
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Subject Classical fiction -- History and criticism.
Classical fiction.
Romance fiction, Greek -- History and criticism.
Romance fiction, Greek.
Romance fiction, Latin -- History and criticism.
Romance fiction, Latin.
Literary form -- History -- To 1500.
Literary form.
History.
Chronological Term To 1500
Subject Fiction -- Classical influences.
Fiction -- Classical influences.
Fiction.
Sex in literature.
Sex in literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Konstan, David. Sexual Symmetry : Love in the Ancient Novel and Related Genres. Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2014
ISBN 9781400863518 (electronic book)
1400863511 (electronic book)