The Cambridge Companion To The Greek And Roman Novel
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| Author | : Tim Whitmarsh |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 332 |
| Release | : 2008-05-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1139827979 |
The Greek and Roman novels of Petronius, Apuleius, Longus, Heliodorus and others have been cherished for millennia, but never more so than now. The Cambridge Companion to the Greek and Roman Novel contains nineteen original essays by an international cast of experts in the field. The emphasis is upon the critical interpretation of the texts within historical settings, both in antiquity and in the later generations that have been and continue to be inspired by them. All the central issues of current scholarship are addressed: sexuality, cultural identity, class, religion, politics, narrative, style, readership and much more. Four sections cover cultural context of the novels, their contents, literary form, and their reception in classical antiquity and beyond. Each chapter includes guidance on further reading. This collection will be essential for scholars and students, as well as for others who want an up-to-date, accessible introduction into this exhilarating material.
| Author | : H. A. Shapiro |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 277 |
| Release | : 2007-05-07 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1139826999 |
The Cambridge Companion to Archaic Greece provides a wide-ranging synthesis of history, society, and culture during the formative period of Ancient Greece, from the Age of Homer in the late eighth century to the Persian Wars of 490–480 BC. In ten clearly written and succinct chapters, leading scholars from around the English-speaking world treat all aspects of the civilization of Archaic Greece, from social, political, and military history to early achievements in poetry, philosophy, and the visual arts. Archaic Greece was an age of experimentation and intellectual ferment that laid the foundations for much of Western thought and culture. Individual Greek city-states rose to great power and wealth, and after a long period of isolation, many cities sent out colonies that spread Hellenism to all corners of the Mediterranean world. This Companion offers a vivid and fully documented account of this critical stage in the history of the West.
| Author | : Harriet I. Flower |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 519 |
| Release | : 2014-06-23 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1107032245 |
This second edition examines all aspects of Roman history, and contains a new introduction, three new chapters and updated bibliographies.
| Author | : Erik Gunderson |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 369 |
| Release | : 2009-07-09 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 1139827804 |
Rhetoric thoroughly infused the world and literature of Graeco-Roman antiquity. This Companion provides a comprehensive overview of rhetorical theory and practice in that world, from Homer to early Christianity, accessible to students and non-specialists, whether within classics or from other periods and disciplines. Its basic premise is that rhetoric is less a discrete object to be grasped and mastered than a hotly contested set of practices that include disputes over the very definition of rhetoric itself. Standard treatments of ancient oratory tend to take it too much in its own terms and to isolate it unduly from other social and cultural concerns. This volume provides an overview of the shape and scope of the problems while also identifying core themes and propositions: for example, persuasion, virtue, and public life are virtual constants. But they mix and mingle differently, and the contents designated by each of these terms can also shift.
| Author | : Andrew Feldherr |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 487 |
| Release | : 2009-09-24 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0521854539 |
An introduction to how the history of Rome was written in the ancient world, and its impact on later periods. It presents essays by an international team of scholars that aim both to orient non-specialist readers to the important concerns of the Roman historians and also to stimulate new research.
| Author | : Harriet I. Flower |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 426 |
| Release | : 2004-01-19 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 9780521003902 |
| Author | : David Vincent Meconi |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 405 |
| Release | : 2014-06-05 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1107025338 |
This second edition of the Companion has been thoroughly revised and updated with eleven new chapters and a new bibliography.
| Author | : Richard Bett |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 380 |
| Release | : 2010-01-28 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 1139828215 |
This volume offers a comprehensive survey of the main periods, schools, and individual proponents of scepticism in the ancient Greek and Roman world. The contributors examine the major developments chronologically and historically, ranging from the early antecedents of scepticism to the Pyrrhonist tradition. They address the central philosophical and interpretive problems surrounding the sceptics' ideas on subjects including belief, action, and ethics. Finally, they explore the effects which these forms of scepticism had beyond the ancient period, and the ways in which ancient scepticism differs from scepticism as it has been understood since Descartes. The volume will serve as an accessible and wide-ranging introduction to the subject for non-specialists, while also offering considerable depth and detail for more advanced readers.
| Author | : Tim Whitmarsh |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 313 |
| Release | : 2011-04-07 |
| Genre | : Literary Collections |
| ISBN | : 1139500589 |
The Greek romance was for the Roman period what epic was for the Archaic period or drama for the Classical: the central literary vehicle for articulating ideas about the relationship between self and community. This book offers a reading of the romance both as a distinctive narrative form (using a range of narrative theories) and as a paradigmatic expression of identity (social, sexual and cultural). At the same time it emphasises the elasticity of romance narrative and its ability to accommodate both conservative and transformative models of identity. This elasticity manifests itself partly in the variation in practice between different romancers, some of whom are traditionally Hellenocentric while others are more challenging. Ultimately, however, it is argued that it reflects a tension in all romance narrative, which characteristically balances centrifugal against centripetal dynamics. This book will interest classicists, historians of the novel and students of narrative theory.
| Author | : Kirk Freudenburg |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 380 |
| Release | : 2005-05-12 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780521803595 |
Satire as a distinct genre of writing was first developed by the Romans in the second century BCE. Regarded by them as uniquely 'their own', satire held a special place in the Roman imagination as the one genre that could address the problems of city life from the perspective of a 'real Roman'. In this Cambridge Companion an international team of scholars provides a stimulating introduction to Roman satire's core practitioners and practices, placing them within the contexts of Greco-Roman literary and political history. Besides addressing basic questions of authors, content, and form, the volume looks to the question of what satire 'does' within the world of Greco-Roman social exchanges, and goes on to treat the genre's further development, reception, and translation in Elizabethan England and beyond. Included are studies of the prosimetric, 'Menippean' satires that would become the models of Rabelais, Erasmus, More, and (narrative satire's crowning jewel) Swift.
