Egypt, Ethiopia, and the Greek novel : between representation and resistance /

• Main Author: Cioffi, Robert (συγγραφέας)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2024.
• Subjects: Ελληνική πεζογραφία > Ιστορία και κριτική.; Αίγυπτος > Στη λογοτεχνία.; Αιθιοπία > Στη λογοτεχνία.

Περίληψη εκδότη: "There is no region more central to the ancient Greek romance novel than the thousand or so miles stretching from Alexandria to ancient Ethiopia that comprise the Nile River Valley. Yet, for all its importance, Egypt, Ethiopia, and the Greek Novel: Between Representation and Re...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction : In the Month of Hathor
• 1. Religion, Revolt, and Rome in Chariton, Xenophon of Ephesus, and Apuleius
• 2. Where the Wild Things Are: Achilles Tatius and Egyptian Animals
• 3. The Lives of Others: The Boukoloi, the Nile Delta, and the Frontiers of Knowledge in Achilles Tatius
• 4. Alexandria and Apocalypse: Representation, Resistance, and Time
• 5. An Ethiopian Story in Egypt
• 6. The Ends of Ethiopia in Heliodorus' An Ethiopian Story
• Epilogue : Egypt, Ethiopia, and the Americas: The Greek Novels' Early Modern Readers