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Dreams and Suicides: The Greek Novel from Antiquity to the Byzantine Empire
This study discusses the Greek novel through the ages, from the genre's flowering in late Antiquity to its learned revival in twelfth-century Byzantium. Its unique feature is its full coverage of the Byzantine novels, demonstrating that they both depend upon and react against the ancient novel, and can only be understood against the cultural backdrop of ancient Greek literature. Dreams and Suicides analyses the cultural symptoms and attitudes portrayed or implied in the novels, thus rooting them in a social rather than merely a literary context. For all students of ancient culture, this book provides important and original insights into the genre of ancient literature.
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Dreams and Suicides: The Greek Novel from Antiquity to the Byzantine Empire
This study discusses the Greek novel through the ages, from the genre's flowering in late Antiquity to its learned revival in twelfth-century Byzantium. Its unique feature is its full coverage of the Byzantine novels, demonstrating that they both depend upon and react against the ancient novel, and can only be understood against the cultural backdrop of ancient Greek literature. Dreams and Suicides analyses the cultural symptoms and attitudes portrayed or implied in the novels, thus rooting them in a social rather than merely a literary context. For all students of ancient culture, this book provides important and original insights into the genre of ancient literature.
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Dreams and Suicides: The Greek Novel from Antiquity to the Byzantine Empire

Dreams and Suicides: The Greek Novel from Antiquity to the Byzantine Empire

by Suzanne Macalister
Dreams and Suicides: The Greek Novel from Antiquity to the Byzantine Empire
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Dreams and Suicides: The Greek Novel from Antiquity to the Byzantine Empire

Dreams and Suicides: The Greek Novel from Antiquity to the Byzantine Empire

by Suzanne Macalister

Overview

This study discusses the Greek novel through the ages, from the genre's flowering in late Antiquity to its learned revival in twelfth-century Byzantium. Its unique feature is its full coverage of the Byzantine novels, demonstrating that they both depend upon and react against the ancient novel, and can only be understood against the cultural backdrop of ancient Greek literature. Dreams and Suicides analyses the cultural symptoms and attitudes portrayed or implied in the novels, thus rooting them in a social rather than merely a literary context. For all students of ancient culture, this book provides important and original insights into the genre of ancient literature.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780415642972
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 07/26/2012
Edition description: Reprint
Pages: 248
Product dimensions: 5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

About the Author

Suzanne MacAlister is Lecturer in Ancient Greek Literature and Classical Civilisation at the University of Sydney. She has published on dreams, gender symbolism and the novels in late Antiquity and twelfth-century Byzantium.

Table of Contents

Introduction; Chapter 1 A RESPONSE TO UNCERTAINTY; Chapter 2 CULTURAL MEANINGS SUBJECTED TO REFLECTION; Chapter 3 THE NOVEL, THE DREAM AND‘SUICIDE’ IN THE INTERIM PERIOD; Chapter 4 THE BYZANTINE REVIVAL; Chapter 5 THE REVIVAL IN CONTEXT; APPENDIX; Notes; BIBLIOGRAPHYINDEX; GENERAL INDEX;
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Literature
Literary Criticism
Ancient & Medieval Literature
Ancient Greek Literature - Literary Criticism
Byzantine Literature - Literary Criticism
Literature
Literary Criticism
Ancient & Medieval Literature
Ancient Greek Literature - Literary Criticism
Byzantine Literature - Literary Criticism

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