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BL
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873397
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Whitmarsh, Tim
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| Title & Author
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Dirty love : : the genealogy of the ancient Greek novel /\ Tim Whitmarsh.
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| Publication Statement
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New York, NY :: Oxford University Press,, [2018]
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| Series Statement
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Onassis series in Hellenic culture
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1 online resource
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| ISBN
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0190880791
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: 0199876592
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: 9780190880798
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: 9780199876594
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0190880783
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0199742650
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9780190880781
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9780199742653
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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| Abstract
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Where does the Greek novel come from? This book argues that whereas much of Greek literature was committed to a form of cultural purism, presenting itself as part of a continuous tradition reaching back to Homer, the novel revelled in its hybridisation with Persian, Egyptian and Jewish culture.
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Greek fiction-- History and criticism.
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Greek fiction.
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LITERARY CRITICISM-- European-- General.
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| Dewey Classification
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883/.0109
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| LC Classification
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PA3267.W45 2018
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