Three Greek Romances
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Publisher: MacMillan Publishing Company
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9780023487101
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Three Medieval Greek Romances
Author: Gavin Betts
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-05-23
Total Pages: 327
ISBN-13: 0429620306
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Published in 1995: These three 14th century medieval Greek romances, which are presented here for the first time in English translation, form part of a curious and previously neglected corner of literature.
Three Greek Romances
The Greek Alexander Romance
Author: Richard Stoneman
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 1991-04-25
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 0141907118
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Mystery surrounds the parentage of Alexander, the prince born to Queen Olympias. Is his father Philip, King of Macedonia, or Nectanebo, the mysterious sorcerer who seduced the queen by trickery? One thing is certain: the boy is destined to conquer the known world. He grows up to fulfil this prophecy, building a mighty empire that spans from Greece and Italy to Africa and Asia. Begun soon after the real Alexander's death and expanded in the centuries that followed, The Greek Alexander Myth depicts the life and adventures of one of history's greatest heroes - taming the horse Bucephalus, meeting the Amazons and his quest to defeat the King of Persia. Including such elements of fantasy as Alexander's ascent to heaven borne by eagles, this literary masterpiece brilliantly evokes a lost age of heroism.
Narrative and Identity in the Ancient Greek Novel
Author: Tim Whitmarsh
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011-04-07
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 1139500589
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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 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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Author: Gavin Betts
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1995-01-01
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780815312796
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →These three 14th century medieval Greek romances, which are presented here for the first time in English translation, form part of a curious and previously neglected corner of literature. While they owe much to the ancient and medieval Greek novel, the romances have obviously been influenced by Western romances, which were introduced to the Greek world after the capture of Constantinople in 1204 to the Fourth Crusade. Their position at the beginning of modern Greek literature is due in no small part to their disregard of the stuffy formalism of many Byzantine authors. The three poems translated here are original compositions, not adaptations of Western romance. The mannered presentation of courtly love which they show, sometimes with a distinctive Byzantine flavor, provides a fascinating reinterpretation of the Western tradition. A general introduction examines the genre and the unusual circumstances in which it began. Individual introductions analyze the particular features and problems of each poem.
Collected Ancient Greek Novels
Author: B. P. Reardon
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2019-05-07
Total Pages: 982
ISBN-13: 0520305590
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Prose fiction, although not always associated with classical antiquity, flourished in the early Roman Empire, not only in realistic Latin novels but also and indeed principally in the Greek ideal romance of love and adventure. Enormously popular in the Renaissance, these stories have been less familiar in later centuries. Translations of the Greek stories were not readily available in English before B.P. Reardon’s first appeared in 1989.Nine complete stories are included here as well as ten others, encompassing the whole range of classical themes: romance, travel, adventure, historical fiction, and comic parody. A foreword by J.R. Morgan examines the enormous impact this groundbreaking collection has had on our understanding of classical thought and our concept of the novel.
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The Four Loves
Author: Clive Staples Lewis
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 166
ISBN-13: 9780151329168
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Analyzes the feelings and problems involved in different types of human love, including familial affection, friendship, passion, and charity.
Three Greek Plays
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Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1958-11
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780393002034
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Three classic Greek tragedies are translated and critically introduced by Edith Hamilton.
