Form of Greek Romance
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Achilles Tatius
Aelius Aristides
Aeschylus
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Ancient Greek comedy
Ancient Greek novel
Apollonius of Tyana
Apuleius
Aristophanes
Aristotle
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Chariton
Classical Greece
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Cupid and Psyche
Cyropaedia
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Demosthenes
Deus ex machina
Dio Chrysostom
Dionysius of Halicarnassus
Ephesian Tale
Epigram
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Euhemerus
Euripides
Fiction
G. (novel)
Genre
Greek literature
Greek tragedy
Hamartia
Hellenic studies
Hellenica
Hellenistic period
Hermocrates (dialogue)
Herodas
Herodes Atticus
Herodotus
Historical romance
Histories (Herodotus)
Historiography
Iphigenia in Tauris
Isocrates
Katharevousa
Language_English
Leucippe and Clitophon
Literary theory
Literature
Longus
Modern Greek
Narrative
Nisus and Euryalus
Novel
Odysseus
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Philoctetes
Philostratus
Phylarchus
Plautus
Plutarch
Poetics (Aristotle)
Poetry
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Prose
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Republic (Plato)
Rhetoric
Romance novel
Second Sophistic
softlaunch
Sophocles
Suetonius
Theocritus
Theory
Thucydides
Trojan War
Writer
Writing
Xenophon of Ephesus
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- ISBN 9780691604640
- Weight: 28g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 14 Jul 2014
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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In the early Roman Empire a new literary genre began to flourish, mainly in the Greek world: prose fiction, or romance. Broadly defined as a love story that offers adventure and a romantic vision of life, this form of literature emerged long after the other genres and, until recently, seemed hardly worthy of critical attention. Here B. P. Reardon addresses the growing interest in ancient fiction by providing a literary and cultural framework in which to understand Greek romance, and by demonstrating its importance as an artistic and social phenomenon. Beginning with a discussion of Chariton's Chaereas and Callirhoe, Reardon sets out the generic characteristics of the romance. He then moves through a wide range of works, including those of Longus and Heliodorus, and reveals their sophistication in terms of social observation, technique within a convention, and the stance adopted by the authors toward their own creations. Although antiquity left behind little discussion of the genre, Reardon shows how romance can be assessed within its time period by considering the practice of narrative in other Greek literature and the concept of fiction in antiquity. Originally published in 1991.
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