| Philosophy and the Ancient Novel Contributor(s): Futre Pinheiro, Marília (Editor), Montiglio, Silvia (Editor) |
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ISBN: 9491431897 ISBN-13: 9789491431890 Publisher: Barkhuis OUR PRICE: $114.84 Product Type: Hardcover Published: September 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Ancient - Greece - History | Ancient - Rome |
| Series: Ancient Narrative Supplements |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.8" W x 9.6" (1.10 lbs) 179 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) - Cultural Region - Greece - Cultural Region - Italy |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The papers assembled in this volume explore a relatively new area in scholarship on the ancient novel: the relationship between an ostensibly non-philosophical genre and philosophy. This approach opens up several original themes for further research and debate. Platonising fiction was popular in the Second Sophistic and it took a variety of forms, ranging from the intertextual to the allegorical, and discussions of the origins of the novel-genre in antiquity have centred on the role of Socratic dialogue in general and Plato's dialogues in particular as important precursors. The papers in this collection cover a variety of genres, ranging from the Greek and Roman novels to utopian narratives and fictional biographies, and seek by diverse methods to detect philosophical resonances in these texts. |