02123nam a22003258a 4500001001600000003000700016005001700023006001900040007001500059008004100074020002600115020002900141020003000170040002400200050002300224082001500247245008800262246004200350264005200392300005900444336002600503337002600529338003600555500007300591520096200664700004401626700004501670776003501715856004701750CR9781139814690UkCbUP20170413094206.0m|||||o||d||||||||cr||||||||||||121011s2013||||enk     s     ||1 0|eng|d  a9781139814690 (ebook)  z9781107038240 (hardback)  z9781107543003 (paperback)  aUkCbUPcUkCbUPerda00aPA3010 b.R66 201300a880.0922304aThe Romance between Greece and the East /cEdited by Tim Whitmarsh, Stuart Thomson.3 aThe Romance between Greece & the East 1aCambridge :bCambridge University Press,c2013.  a1 online resource (412 pages) :bdigital, PDF file(s).  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015).  aThe contact zones between the Greco-Roman world and the Near East represent one of the most exciting and fast-moving areas of ancient-world studies. This new collection of essays, by world-renowned experts (and some new voices) in classical, Jewish, Egyptian, Mesopotamian and Persian literature, focuses specifically on prose fiction, or 'the ancient novel'. Twenty chapters either offer fresh readings - from an intercultural perspective - of familiar texts (such as the biblical Esther and Ecclesiastes, Xenophon of Ephesus' Ephesian Story and Dictys of Crete's Journal), or introduce material that may be new to many readers: from demotic Egyptian papyri through old Avestan hymns to a Turkic translation of the Life of Aesop. The volume also considers issues of methodology and the history of scholarship on the topic. A concluding section deals with the question of how narratives, patterns and motifs may have come to be transmitted between cultures.1 aWhitmarsh, Tim,eeditor of compilation.1 aThomson, Stuart,eeditor of compilation.08iPrint version: z978110703824040uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139814690