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Achilles Tatius: Leucippe and Clitophon Books I-II

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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The Greek Novels have moved from the margins to the centre-stage over recent decades, not just because of their literary qualities and thrilling narratives, but also because they offer revealing insights into the culture of the Greek world of the Roman Empire: sexual mores, the position of women and men, identity, religion. Achilles Tatius' Leucippe and Clitophon, the most influential of the novels in antiquity, remains the favourite of many. With its freewheeling plotline, its setting on the edge of the Greek world (in modern Lebanon), its ironic play with the reader's expectations and its sallies into obscenity, it represents a new, mature, sophisticated stage in the development of the novel as a genre. This is the first commentary in English on Achilles for over 50 years, a period that has seen great strides forward in the understanding of the literary, linguistic and textual interpretation of this brilliant text.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-06-11
Mått138 x 216 x 19 mm
Vikt400 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieCambridge Greek and Latin Classics
Antal sidor294
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781316640593

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TIM WHITMARSH is the A. G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture at the University of Cambridge; he also holds honorary roles at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and the Universities of Pretoria and Exeter. He is the author of seven books, including most recently Beyond the Second Sophistic (2013), which won the Goodwin Order of Merit; Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient World (2015) and Dirty Love: The Genealogy of the Ancient Greek Novel (2018).