Contributions

  • International Conference on the Ancient Novel (4th : 2008 : Lisbon, Portugal) - Contributor

Publication

2015 - Barkhuis, Eelde, the Netherlands, Netherlands

Language

English

Word Count

44,750 words, Guess

Page Count

179 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • DDC883.0109
  • LCCPA3040 .P45 2015

Description

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.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Ancient narrative. Supplementum -- 20
  • Ancient narrative -- 20.

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