- Description
- 1 online resource (xviii, 201 pages)
- Uniform Title
- Dirty love (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Dirty love (Online)
- Subject
- Greek fiction > History and criticism
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-198) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Prelude -- First movement: Hellenism and hybridity -- Dirty love -- A history of the novel -- What is a novel? -- Epic and novel -- Sourcing Callirhoe -- Second movement: Persians -- The romance of Zarinaea and Stryangaeus -- Who was Ctesias? -- Persian love stories -- Media studies -- Cyrus' sex life -- Third movement: Jews -- Return to Joseph -- The Jewish novel -- Joseph in love -- Fourth movement: Egyptians -- The long Hellenistic -- Alexander in kohl -- Whose paradigm? -- Fifth movement: how Greek is the Greek romance? -- How Greek is the Greek romance? -- Romancing Semiramis -- Dirty love in late antiquity -- Conclusion: the foundation of Marseilles, some brooch-pins, and the history of the novel.
- ISBN
- 9780190880781 (epub)
- 9780190880798 (oso)
- 9780199876594 (updf)
- LCCN
- 2017049554
- OCLC
- ssj0001978407
- Author
Whitmarsh, Tim.
- Title
Dirty love [electronic resource] : the genealogy of the ancient Greek novel / Tim Whitmarsh.
- Imprint
Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2018]
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-198) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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