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The Cambridge companion to the Greek and Roman novel
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ISBN: 9780521865906 0521865905 9780521684880 0521684889 1139001833 1139817671 9781139001830 Year: 2008 Volume: *109 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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The Greek and Roman novels of Petronius, Apuleius, Longus, Heliodorus and others have been cherished for millennia, but never more so than now. The Cambridge Companion to the Greek and Roman Novel contains nineteen original essays by an international cast of experts in the field. The emphasis is upon the critical interpretation of the texts within historical settings, both in antiquity and in the later generations that have been and continue to be inspired by them. All the central issues of current scholarship are addressed: sexuality, cultural identity, class, religion, politics, narrative, style, readership and much more. Four sections cover cultural context of the novels, their contents, literary form, and their reception in classical antiquity and beyond. Each chapter includes guidance on further reading. This collection will be essential for scholars and students, as well as for others who want an up-to-date, accessible introduction into this exhilarating material.


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Oltre la scrittura : variazioni sul tema per Guglielmo Cavallo.
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ISBN: 9782951836679 2951836678 Year: 2008 Volume: 8 Publisher: Paris Centre d'études byzantines, néo-helléniques et sud-est européennes

The myth of sacred prostitution in antiquity
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ISBN: 9780521178044 9780521880909 0521880904 9780511497766 9780511394645 0511394640 0511497768 0521178045 1107184657 1281370401 9786611370404 0511393997 0511393172 0511391862 0511390688 Year: 2008 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Stephanie Budin demonstrates that sacred prostitution, the sale of a person's body for sex in which some or all of the money earned was devoted to a deity or a temple, did not exist in the ancient world. Reconsidering the evidence from the ancient Near East, the Greco-Roman texts, and the early Christian authors, Budin shows that the majority of sources that have traditionally been understood as pertaining to sacred prostitution actually have nothing to do with this institution. The few texts that are usually invoked on this subject are, moreover, terribly misunderstood. Contrary to many current hypotheses, the creation of the myth of sacred prostitution has nothing to do with notions of accusation or the construction of a decadent, Oriental 'Other'. Instead, the myth has come into being as a result of more than 2,000 years of misinterpretations, false assumptions, and faulty methodology.


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Vom selbst-verständnis in antike und neuzeit =
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ISBN: 3110205718 9786612073489 1282073486 3110214016 9783110205718 9783110214017 9781282073487 6612073489 Year: 2008 Publisher: Berlin New York

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Die interdisziplinäre Debatte über die Genese des autonomen Subjekts hat bisher unter weitgehender Ausblendung der Vormoderne stattgefunden. Auf diesen Mangel reagiert der vorliegende Band: In zum Teil eng miteinander vernetzten Beiträgen wird die Geschichtsschreibung der Subjekts- und Selbstvorstellungen an antiken wie nachantiken Texten präzisiert und in mancher Hinsicht revidiert. Zur Debatte stehen Konzepte von Selbst und Subjekt, von Individuum, Person- und Sprecheridentität in Rhetorik, Poetik, Philosophie und Theologie; dazu gehören im besonderen Erscheinungsformen des "lyrischen Ich" und der Autorschaft. Die oft textnahen Interpretationen sind eingebettet in die breitgefächerte Diskussion methodologischer und theoretischer Probleme (z.B. Subjektivität und Textualität, Identität und Alterität, Individualität und Autobiographie als Themen antiker Texte oder Begriffe ihrer Beschreibung sowie ästhetische und poetologische Fragestellungen), unter Berücksichtigung ihrer jeweiligen historisch-politischen Dimensionen. Darüber hinaus rückt die Auseinandersetzung mit und Transformation von antiken Konzepten in der Moderne in den Blick.


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Orality, literacy, memory in the ancient Greek and Roman world
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ISBN: 9789004169913 9004169911 9786613061232 904743384X 1283061236 9789047433842 Year: 2008 Volume: 298 7 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,

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The volume represents the seventh in the series on Orality and Literacy in the Ancient Greek and Roman Worlds. It comprises a collection of essays on the significance and working of memory in ancient texts and visual documentation, from contexts both oral (or oral-derived) and literate. The authors discuss a variety of interpretations of ‘memory’ in Homeric epic, lyric poetry, tragedy, historical inscriptions, oratory, and philosophy, as well as in the replication of ancient artworks, and in Greek vase inscriptions. They present therefore a wide-ranging analysis of memory as a fundamental faculty underlying the production and reception of texts and material documentation in a society that gradually moved from an essentially oral to an essentially literate culture.


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L'Antiquité tardive dans les collections médiévales : textes et représentations, VIe-XIVe siècle : [actes des journées d'études organisées à Rome, les 3 juin 2005 et 27 janvier 2006]
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ISBN: 9782728308224 2728308225 Year: 2008 Volume: 405 Publisher: Roma Ecole française de Rome

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Les textes de l’Antiquité tardive ont été pour la plupart transmis par des collections médiévales. Ces recueils n’étaient pas de simples réceptacles. Leur organisation induisait des rapprochements, des redécoupages et des réécritures qui eurent une influence déterminante sur la transmission et la réception des documents qu’ils contenaient. La mise en recueil répondait en effet aux besoins et attentes d’un lectorat qui développait ou modifiait les ensembles véhiculés, constituant ainsi de nouveaux réseaux textuels. Les Actes des journées d’étude sur les collections latines et grecques explorent différents types de collections médiévales en fonction de critères génériques, linguistiques et culturels. Ils s’efforcent d’évaluer leur rôle dans la transmission de la culture antique entre le VIe et le XIVe siècle. Ils mettent en évidence le poids de ces recueils dans la perception de l’Antiquité tardive, dans les stratégies de réappropriation du passé et dans la façon dont les lecteurs médiévaux ont forgé leur propre culture. Ils montrent ainsi que l’histoire des collections est un champ essentiel de l’Histoire médiévale.

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