The Novel in the Ancient World: Revised Edition

by Gareth Schmeling

Book Overview

From classics and history to Jewish rabbinic narratives and the canonical and noncanonical gospels of earliest Christianity, the relevance of studying the novel of the later classical periods of Greek and Rome is widely endorsed. Ancient novels contain insights beyond literary theories and philosophical musings to new sources for understanding the popular culture of antiquity. Some scholars, in fact, refer to ancient novels as "alternative histories,"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0391041347
• ISBN13: 9780391041349
• Release Date: June 2003
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 876 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"