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Dirty love the genealogy of the ancient Greek novel

Title
Dirty love [electronic resource] : the genealogy of the ancient Greek novel / Tim Whitmarsh.
Author
Whitmarsh, Tim
Publication
Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2018]

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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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Available onsite at NYPL
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