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Ancient Greek Novels - The Fragments: Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary (Hardcover)
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Ancient Greek Novels - The Fragments: Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary (Hardcover)
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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The recent discovery of fragments from such novels as Iolaos,
Phoinikika, Sesonchosis, and Metiochos and Parthenope has
dramatically increased the library catalogue of ancient novels,
calling for a fresh survey of the field. In this volume Susan
Stephens and John Winkler have reedited all of the identifiable
novel fragments, including the epitomes of Iamblichos' Babyloniaka
and Antonius Diogenes' Incredible Things Beyond Thule. Intended for
scholars as well as nonspecialists, this work provides new editions
of the texts, full translations whenever possible, and
introductions that situate each text within the field of ancient
fiction and that present relevant background material, literary
parallels, and possible lines of interpretation. Collective reading
of the fragments exposes the inadequacy of many currently held
assumptions about the ancient novel, among these, for example, the
paradigm for a linear, increasingly complex narrative development,
the notion of the "ideal romantic" novel as the generic norm, and
the nature of the novel's readership and cultural milieu. Once
perceived as a late and insignificant development, the novel
emerges as a central and revealing cultural phenomenon of the
Greco-Roman world after Alexander. Originally published in 1995.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These editions preserve the original texts of these important books
while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.
The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase
access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of
books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in
1905.
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