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Reading Heliodorus' Aethiopica (Hardcover)
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Reading Heliodorus' Aethiopica (Hardcover)
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Heliodorus' Aethiopica (Ethiopian Story) is the latest, longest,
and greatest of the ancient Greek romances. It was hugely admired
in Byzantium, and caused a sensation when it was rediscovered and
translated into French in the 16th century: its impact on later
European literature (including Shakespeare and Sidney) and art is
incalculable. As with all post-classical Greek literature, its
popularity dived in the 19th century, thanks to the influence of
romanticism. Since the 1980s, however, new generations of readers
have rediscovered this extraordinary late-antique tale of
adventure, travel, and love. Recent scholars have demonstrated not
just the complexity and sophistication of the text's formal
aspects, but its daring experiments with the themes of race,
gender, and religion. This volume brings together fifteen
established experts in the ancient romance from across the world:
each explores a passage or section of the text in depth, teasing
out its subtleties and illustrating the rewards reaped thanks to
slow, patient readings of what was arguably classical antiquity's
last classic.
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