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Philosophy and the Ancient Novel
About this book
The papers assembled in this volume explore a relatively new area in scholarship on the ancient novel: the relationship between an ostensibly non-philosophical genre and philosophy. This approach opens up several original themes for further research and debate. Platonising fiction was popular in the Second Sophistic and it took a variety of forms, ranging from the intertextual to the allegorical, and discussions of the origins of the novel-genre in antiquity have centred on the role of Socratic dialogue in general and Plato's dialogues in particular as important precursors. The papers in this collection cover a variety of genres, ranging from the Greek and Roman novels to utopian narratives and fictional biographies, and seek by diverse methods to detect philosophical resonances in these texts.
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Yes, you can access Philosophy and the Ancient Novel by Marília Futre Pinheiro, Silvia Montiglio in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & Greek Ancient History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Table of contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- OURANIA MOLYVIATI. Growing Backwards: The Cena Trimalchionis and Plato’s Aesthetics of Mimesi
- PETER VON MÖLLENDORFF. Stoics in the ocean: Iambulus’ novel as philosophical fiction
- URSULA BITTRICH. The Caring Gods: Daphnis and Chloe as Pronoia Literature
- RICHARD STONEMAN. Tales of Utopia: Alexander, Cynics and Christian Ascetics
- STEFANO JEDRKIEWICZ. Targeting the ‘intellectuals’: Dio of Prusa and the Vita Aesopi
- WALTER ENGLERT. Only Halfway to Happiness: A Platonic Reading of Apuleius’ Golden Ass
- RICHARD FLETCHER. Ex alienis uocibus: Platonic Demonology and Socratic Superstition in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses
- VERNON PROVENCAL. The Platonic Eros of Art in the Ancient Greek Novel
- STEVEN D. SMITH. Platonic Perversions: Horror and the Irrational in the Greek Novel
- GARY REGER. Apollonios of Tyana and the Gymnoi of Ethiopia
- Abstracts
- Autobiographical Notes
- Indexes
- Index locoroum
- General Index