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Fantasy in Greek and Roman Literature (Hardcover)
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Fantasy in Greek and Roman Literature (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
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Fantasy in Greek and Roman Literature offers an overview of Greek
and Roman excursions into fantasy, including imaginary voyages,
dream-worlds, talking animals and similar impossibilities. This is
a territory seldom explored and extends to rarely read texts such
as the Aesop Romance, The Battle of the Frogs and the Mice, and The
Pumpkinification of the Emperor Claudius. Bringing this diverse
material together for the first time, Anderson widens readers'
perspectives on the realm of fantasy in ancient literature,
including topics such as dialogues with the dead, Utopian
communities and fantastic feasts. Going beyond the more familiar
world of myth, his examples range from The Golden Ass to the Late
Antique Testament of a Pig. The volume also explores ancient
resistance to the world of make-believe. Fantasy in Greek and Roman
Literature is an invaluable resource not only for students of
classical and comparative literature, but also for modern writers
on fantasy who want to explore the genre's origins in antiquity,
both in the more obvious and in lesser-known texts.
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