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9780520067226 | Univ of California Pr, March 1, 1991, cover price $29.95
Greek Literature and the Roman Empire uses up-to-date literary and cultural theory to explore the phenomenal rise of interest in literary writing in Greece under the Roman Empire. Greek identity cannot be properly understood without appreciating the brilliant sophistication of the writers of the period, whose texts must be considered in the historical and cultural context of the battles for identity that raged under the vast, multicultural Roman Empire. (view table of contents)
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9780199240357 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, March 21, 2002, cover price $190.00 | About this edition: Greek Literature and the Roman Empire uses up-to-date literary and cultural theory to explore the phenomenal rise of interest in literary writing in Greece under the Roman Empire.
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9780199271375 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, April 8, 2004, cover price $86.00
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9780198152897 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, May 16, 2002, cover price $165.00
Product Description: In this book, Tim Whitmarsh offers an innovative new introduction to ancient Greek literature. The volume integrates cutting-edge cultural theory with the latest research in classical scholarship, providing a comprehensive, sophisticated and accessible account of literature from Homer to late antiquity...read more
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9780745627915 | Polity Pr, August 13, 2004, cover price $69.95 | About this edition: In this book, Tim Whitmarsh offers an innovative new introduction to ancient Greek literature.
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9780745627922 | Polity Pr, August 13, 2004, cover price $29.95
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9781904675013 | Liverpool Univ Pr, September 30, 2004, cover price $44.95
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9780198568810, titled "The Second Sophistic" | Reprint edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, August 31, 2005), cover price $29.99
The Greek and Roman novels of Petronius, Apuleius, Longus, Heliodorus and others have been cherished for millennia, but never more so than now. The Cambridge Companion to the Greek and Roman Novel contains nineteen original essays by an international cast of experts in the field. The emphasis is upon the critical interpretation of the texts within historical settings, both in antiquity and in the later generations that have been and continue to be inspired by them. All the central issues of current scholarship are addressed: sexuality, cultural identity, class, religion, politics, narrative, style, readership and much more. Four sections cover cultural context of the novels, their contents, literary form, and their reception in classical antiquity and beyond. Each chapter includes guidance on further reading. This collection will be essential for scholars and students, as well as for others who want an up-to-date, accessible introduction into this exhilarating material.
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9780521865906 | Cambridge Univ Pr, June 30, 2008, cover price $125.00 | About this edition: The Greek and Roman novels of Petronius, Apuleius, Longus, Heliodorus and others have been cherished for millennia, but never more so than now.
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9780521684880 | Cambridge Univ Pr, June 30, 2008, cover price $39.99
Achilles Tatius' Leucippe and Clitophon is the most bizarre and risqué of the five "Greek novels" of idealized love between boy and girl that survive from the time of the Roman empire. Stretching the capacity of the genre to its limits, Achilles' narrative covers adultery, violence, disembowelment, pederasty, virginity-testing, and a conveniently happy ending. Ingenious and sophisticated in conception, Leucippe and Clitophon is at once subtle, stylish, moving, brash, tasteless, and obscene. This new translation aims to capture Achilles' writing in all its exuberant variety.
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9780199555475 | Reissue edition (Oxford Univ Pr, September 28, 2009), cover price $13.95
9780192804273 | Oxford Univ Pr, May 8, 2003, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Achilles Tatius' Leucippe and Clitophon is the most bizarre and risqué of the five "Greek novels" of idealized love between boy and girl that survive from the time of the Roman empire.
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9780521761468 | Cambridge Univ Pr, September 30, 2010, cover price $109.99
The Romans commanded the largest and most complex empire the world had ever seen, or would see until modern times. The challenges, however, were not just political, economic and military: Rome was also the hub of a vast information network, drawing in worldwide expertise and refashioning it for its own purposes. This fascinating collection of essays considers the dialogue between technical literature and imperial society, drawing on, developing and critiquing a range of modern cultural theories (including those of Michel Foucault and Edward Said). How was knowledge shaped into textual forms, and how did those forms encode relationships between emperor and subjects, theory and practice, Roman and Greek, centre and periphery? Ordering Knowledge in the Roman Empire will be required reading for those concerned with the intellectual and cultural history of the Roman Empire, and its lasting legacy in the medieval world and beyond.
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9780521859691 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, December 31, 2007), cover price $99.99 | About this edition: The Romans commanded the largest and most complex empire the world had ever seen, or would see until modern times.
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9780521296939 | Reprint edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, June 30, 2011), cover price $44.99
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9781107410749 | Reprint edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, October 4, 2012), cover price $49.99
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9780520276819 | Revised edition (Univ of California Pr, August 3, 2013), cover price $49.95
The Greek romance was for the Roman period what epic was for the Archaic period or drama for the Classical: the central literary vehicle for articulating ideas about the relationship between self and community. This book offers a fresh reading of the romance both as a distinctive narrative form (using a range of narrative theories) and as a paradigmatic expression of identity (social, sexual and cultural). At the same time it emphasises the elasticity of romance narrative and its ability to accommodate both conservative and transformative models of identity. This elasticity manifests itself partly in the variation in practice between different romancers, some of whom are traditionally Hellenocentric while others are more challenging. Ultimately, however, it is argued that it reflects a tension in all romance narrative, which characteristically balances centrifugal against centripetal dynamics. This book will interest classicists, historians of the novel and students of narrative theory.
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9780521823913 | Cambridge Univ Pr, May 9, 2011, cover price $109.99 | About this edition: The Greek romance was for the Roman period what epic was for the Archaic period or drama for the Classical: the central literary vehicle for articulating ideas about the relationship between self and community.
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9781107491021 | Cambridge Univ Pr, January 29, 2015, cover price $32.99
Hardcover:
9780307958327 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, November 10, 2015, cover price $27.95
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9780307948779 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, October 18, 2016), cover price $16.95
CD/Spoken Word:
9781622319640 | Unabridged edition (Highbridge Co, November 10, 2015), cover price $34.99
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