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Title Echoing narratives : studies of intertextuality in Greek and Roman prose fiction / edited by Konstantin Doulamis.

Publication Info. Groningen, Netherlands : Barkhuis, 2011.
©2011

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Description 1 online resource (227 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Ancient Narrative. Supplementum, 1574-5066 ; Volume 13
Ancient narrative. Supplementum ; Volume 13.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
Contents Cover; Introduction; Less than Ideal Paradigms in theGreek Novel; Forensic Oratory and Rhetorical Theory in Chariton Book 5; The literaty context of Anthia's dream in Xenophon's Ephesiaca; Petronius and Virgil: Contextual and Intertextual Readings; Platonic Love and Erotic Education in Longus' Daphnis and Chloe; Untitled; 'larvale simularcrum': Platonic Socrates and the persona of Socrates in Apuleius, Metamorphoses 1,1-19; Poets and Shepherds: Philetas and Longus; The Rhetoric of Otherness: Geography, Historiography and Zoology in Alexander's Letter about India and the Alexander Romance.
The Divided Cloak in the Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri: Further ThoughtsAbstracts; List of contributors; Indices.
Summary Intertextuality has been recognised as an important feature of ancient prose fiction and yet it has only received sporadic attention in modern scholarship, despite the recent explosion of interest in the ancient novels. This volume is intended to make a contribution towards filling this gap by drawing attention to, and throwing fresh light on, the presence in ancient Greek and Roman narratives of earlier literary echoes. While one volume is by no means sufficient to remedy the problem of the relative lack of scholarship on the topic, nevertheless it is hoped that the present collection will cr.
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Subject Intertextuality.
Intertextuality.
Classical fiction -- History and criticism.
Classical fiction.
Greek fiction, Hellenistic -- History and criticism.
Greek fiction, Hellenistic.
Latin fiction -- History and criticism.
Latin fiction.
Latin prose literature -- History and criticism.
Latin prose literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Added Author Doulamis, Konstantin, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Echoing narratives : studies of intertextuality in Greek and Roman prose fiction. Groningen, Netherlands : Barkhuis, ©2011 xv, 210 pages Ancient narrative. Supplementum ; Volume 13 1574-5066 9789077922859
ISBN 9789491431487 (e-book)
949143148X (e-book)
9789077922859