Re-Wiring The Ancient Novel, 2 Volume set - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Re-Wiring The Ancient Novel, 2 Volume set write by Edmund Cueva. This book was released on 2019-02-28. Re-Wiring The Ancient Novel, 2 Volume set available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Fifth International Conference on the Ancient Novel, which was held in Houston, Texas, in the fall of 2015, brought together scholars and students of the ancient novel from all over the world in order to share new and significant developments about this fascinating field of study and its important place in the field of Classical Studies. The essays contained in these two volumes are clear evidence that the ancient novel has become a valuable part of the Classics canon and its scholarly attempts to understand the ancient Graeco-Roman world.
Achilles Tatius: Leucippe and Clitophon Books I–II
Achilles Tatius: Leucippe and Clitophon Books I–II - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Achilles Tatius: Leucippe and Clitophon Books I–II write by Achilles Tatius. This book was released on 2020-06-11. Achilles Tatius: Leucippe and Clitophon Books I–II available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The first modern commentary in English on this most sophisticated and brilliant of ancient Greek novels. With its freewheeling plotline, its setting on the edge of the Greek world, its ironic play with the reader's expectations and its sallies into obscenity, it will appeal strongly to students and instructors.
Egypt, Ethiopia, and the Greek Novel
Egypt, Ethiopia, and the Greek Novel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Egypt, Ethiopia, and the Greek Novel write by Robert Cioffi. This book was released on 2024-03-07. Egypt, Ethiopia, and the Greek Novel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. There is no region more central to the ancient Greek romance novel than the thousand or so miles stretching from Alexandria to ancient Ethiopia that comprise the Nile River Valley. Yet, for all its importance, Egypt, Ethiopia, and the Greek Novel: Between Representation and Resistance is the first book-length study of how this region is depicted in a literary genre whose fictional tales of love, travel, separation, and reunion flourished during the Roman imperial period. Employing approaches from Literary Studies, Classics, and Egyptology, Robert Cioffi explores the Nile River Valley in the ancient Greek romance novel through two fundamentally related concepts: representation and resistance. On the one hand, these novels develop an image of Egypt and Ethiopia that is in close dialogue with the Greco-Roman ethnographic tradition, characterized by extraordinary marvels such as grand cities, ancient religious rites, and a dizzying array of animals—some real, some imaginary, and some so incredible as to seem make-believe. On the other hand, this depiction often figures Egypt and Ethiopia as sites of resistance, revolt, and rebellion against—or political, cultural, and religious alternatives to—an array of dominant imperial powers in the region, from the Persians to the Romans. This dual reading enriches our understanding of these texts' relationship with the real and imagined frontiers of Roman political, military, and intellectual power. It also raises a broader set of questions—some literary, some cultural-historical—about the interrelation of humans, their environment, and the topographies of cultural identity in the Roman empire.
Magic in Apuleius’ ›Apologia‹
Magic in Apuleius’ ›Apologia‹ - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Magic in Apuleius’ ›Apologia‹ write by Leonardo Costantini. This book was released on 2019-01-14. Magic in Apuleius’ ›Apologia‹ available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Despite the growing interest in Apuleius’ Apologia or Pro se de magia, a speech he delivered in AD 158/159 to defend himself against the charge of being a magus, the only comprehensive study on this speech and magic to date is that by Adam Abt (1908). The aim of this volume is to shed new light on the extent to which Apuleius’ speech reveals his own knowledge of magic, and on the implications of the dangerous allegations brought against Apuleius. By analysing the Apologia sequentially, the author does not only reassess Abt’s analysis but proposes a new reconstruction of the prosecution’s case, arguing that it is heavily distorted by Apuleius. Since ancient magic is the main topic of this speech, an extensive discussion of the topic is provided, offering a new semantic taxonomy of magus and its cognates. Finally, this volume also explores Apuleius’ forensic techniques and the Platonic ideology underpinning his speech. It is proposed that a Platonising reasoning – distinguishing between higher and lower concepts – lies at the core of Apuleius’ rhetorical strategy, and that Apuleius aims to charm the judge, the audience and, ultimately, his readers with the irresistible power of his arguments.
Fake News in Ancient Greece
Fake News in Ancient Greece - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fake News in Ancient Greece write by Diego De Brasi. This book was released on 2024-12-02. Fake News in Ancient Greece available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Scholars have recognized that fake news is not a phenomenon peculiar to the 21st century. While efforts for a more focused approach to fake news in the ancient world have been carried out in the field of Roman history, the phenomenon of fake news in ancient Greece has received limited attention. The contributions in this volume offer a selective approach to this phenomenon by applying media and cultural studies instruments to ancient texts. They pinpoint parallels and differences between ancient and modern fake news by employing methods of literary and cultural studies, as well as historical-documentary analysis of ancient sources. In particular, they explore questions such as: To what extent does reflection on the concepts of truth, lie, and opinion influence ancient Greek political-rhetorical discourse? What is the political or social function of embedding ‘misleading information’ in ancient Greek historiographical texts or pamphlets? Which intentions are pursued with the help of fake news in literary and documentary texts? Can parallels be drawn with modern approaches to fake news? Thus, the volume investigates the mechanisms that historically lay behind the creation, dissemination, and adaptation of ‘misleading information’.
