Collected Ancient Greek Novels
Prose fiction, although not always associated with classical antiquity, flourished in the early Roman Empire, not only in realistic Latin novels but also and indeed principally in the Greek ideal romance of love and adventure. Enormously popular in the Renaissance, these stories have been less familiar in later centuries. Translations of the Greek stories were not readily available in English before B.P. Reardon’s first appeared in 1989.Nine complete stories are included here as well as ten others, encompassing the whole range of classical themes: romance, travel, adventure, historical fiction, and comic parody. A foreword by J.R. Morgan examines the enormous impact this groundbreaking collection has had on our understanding of classical thought and our concept of the novel.
 
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Collected Ancient Greek Novels
Prose fiction, although not always associated with classical antiquity, flourished in the early Roman Empire, not only in realistic Latin novels but also and indeed principally in the Greek ideal romance of love and adventure. Enormously popular in the Renaissance, these stories have been less familiar in later centuries. Translations of the Greek stories were not readily available in English before B.P. Reardon’s first appeared in 1989.Nine complete stories are included here as well as ten others, encompassing the whole range of classical themes: romance, travel, adventure, historical fiction, and comic parody. A foreword by J.R. Morgan examines the enormous impact this groundbreaking collection has had on our understanding of classical thought and our concept of the novel.
 
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Collected Ancient Greek Novels

Collected Ancient Greek Novels

Collected Ancient Greek Novels

Collected Ancient Greek Novels

Overview

Prose fiction, although not always associated with classical antiquity, flourished in the early Roman Empire, not only in realistic Latin novels but also and indeed principally in the Greek ideal romance of love and adventure. Enormously popular in the Renaissance, these stories have been less familiar in later centuries. Translations of the Greek stories were not readily available in English before B.P. Reardon’s first appeared in 1989.Nine complete stories are included here as well as ten others, encompassing the whole range of classical themes: romance, travel, adventure, historical fiction, and comic parody. A foreword by J.R. Morgan examines the enormous impact this groundbreaking collection has had on our understanding of classical thought and our concept of the novel.
 

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780520305595
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 05/07/2019
Series: World Literature in Translation
Edition description: Second Edition, 2
Pages: 984
Product dimensions: 5.00(w) x 7.70(h) x 2.60(d)

About the Author

B.P. Reardon (1928–2009) was Professor Emeritus of Classics at the University of California, Irvine.

J.R. Morgan is Professor Emeritus of Arts and Letters at Swansea University.

Table of Contents

Foreword to the 2008 Edition
by J R. Morgan

General Introduction
by B. P Reardon

Chariton · CHAEREAS AND CALLIRHOE
translated by B. P. Reardon

Xenophon of Ephesus · AN EPHESIAN TALE
translated by Graham Anderson

Achilles Tatius · LEUCIPPE AND CLITOPHON
translated by John]. Winkler

Longus · DAPHNIS AND CHLOE
translated by Christopher Gill

Heliodorus · AN ETHIOPIAN STORY
translated by]. R. Morgan

Pseudo-Lucian · THE ASS
translated by]. P. Sullivan

Lucian · A TRUE STORY
translated by B. P. Reardon

Pseudo-Callisthenes · ALEXANDER ROMANCE
translated by Ken Dowden

Anonymous · THE STORY OF APOLLONIUS
KING OF TYRE
translated by Gerald N. Sandy

SUMMARIES
translated by Gerald N. Sandy
Antonius Diogenes · THE WONDERS
BEYOND THULE
Iamblichus · A BABYLONIAN STORY

FRAGMENTS
translated by Gerald N. Sandy and B. P. Reardon
Introduction
NINUS
A PHOENICIAN STORY
METIOCHUS AND PARTHENOPE
IOLAUS
SESONCHOSIS
HERPYLLIS
CHIONE
CALLIGONE

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