02154nam a22003378a 4500 CR9781139814690 UkCbUP 20170413094206.0 m|||||o||d|||||||| cr|||||||||||| 121011s2013||||enk s ||1 0|eng|d 9781139814690 (ebook) 9781107038240 (hardback) 9781107543003 (paperback) UkCbUP UkCbUP rda PA3010 .R66 2013 880.09 23 The Romance between Greece and the East / Edited by Tim Whitmarsh, Stuart Thomson. The Romance between Greece & the East Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013. 1 online resource (412 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015). The 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. Whitmarsh, Tim, editor of compilation. Thomson, Stuart, editor of compilation. Print version: 9781107038240 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139814690 179144 179144