1st Edition
Dreams and Suicides The Greek Novel from Antiquity to the Byzantine Empire
By Suzanne Macalister
Copyright 1996
248 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
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This study discusses the Greek novel through the ages, from the genre's flowering in late Antiquity to its learned revival in twelfth-century Byzantium. Its unique feature is its full coverage of the Byzantine novels, demonstrating that they both depend upon and react against the ancient novel, and can only be understood against the cultural backdrop of ancient Greek literature. Dreams and... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 A RESPONSE TO UNCERTAINTY; Chapter 2 CULTURAL MEANINGS SUBJECTED TO REFLECTION; Chapter 3 THE NOVEL, THE DREAM AND‘SUICIDE’ IN THE INTERIM PERIOD; Chapter 4 THE BYZANTINE REVIVAL; Chapter 5 THE REVIVAL IN CONTEXT; APPENDIX; Notes; BIBLIOGRAPHYINDEX; GENERAL INDEX;
Biography
Suzanne MacAlister is Lecturer in Ancient Greek Literature and Classical Civilisation at the University of Sydney. She has published on dreams, gender symbolism and the novels in late Antiquity and twelfth-century Byzantium.
'This work performs a valuable service for those interested in the relationship between earlier and later Greek novels.' - Jonathan Walters, Classics Ireland
'The book is well worth reading, especially by Western medievalists who are not always aware of literary development at the other end of the Mediterranean in the generation preceding Chretien de Troyes.' - Medium Aevum
'Dreams and Suicides is an interesting book ... It will give specialists on the ancient novel plenty to think about, and raise awareness of and interest in the ancient Greek novel's Byzantine successors.' - John Birchall, Scholia Reviews
