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Edited by Tim Whitmarsh, University of Oxford, Stuart Thomson, Corpus Christi College, Oxford

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date: December 2013
Print publication year: 2013
Online ISBN: 9781139814690
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139814690

Subjects: Classical Studies, Biblical Studies - Old Testament, Hebrew Bible, Classical Literature, Religion

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The contact zones between the Greco-Roman world and the Near East represent one of the most exciting and fast-moving areas of ancient-world studies. This new collection of essays, by world-renowned experts (and some new voices) in classical, Jewish, Egyptian, Mesopotamian and Persian literature, focuses specifically on prose fiction, or 'the ancient novel'. Twenty chapters either offer fresh readings - from an intercultural perspective - of familiar texts (such as the biblical Esther and Ecclesiastes, Xenophon of Ephesus' Ephesian Story and Dictys of Crete's Journal), or introduce material that may be new to many readers: from demotic Egyptian papyri through old Avestan hymns to a Turkic translation of the Life of Aesop. The volume also considers issues of methodology and the history of scholarship on the topic. A concluding section deals with the question of how narratives, patterns and motifs may have come to be transmitted between cultures.

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The Romance Between Greece and the East - Half title page
pp i-ii

The Romance Between Greece and the East - Title page
pp iii-iii

Copyright page
pp iv-iv

Contents
pp v-vii

Notes on contributors
pp viii-xii

Acknowledgements
pp xiii-xiii

Abbreviations
pp xiv-xiv

Chapter 1 - The romance between Greece and the East
pp 1-20

Part I - Egyptians
pp 21-102

Chapter 2 - Greek fiction and Egyptian fiction
pp 23-37

Chapter 3 - Manetho
pp 38-58

Chapter 4 - Imitatio Alexandriin Egyptian literary tradition
pp 59-78

Chapter 5 - Divine anger management
pp 79-90

Chapter 6 - Fictions of cultural authority
pp 91-102

Part II - Mesopotamians and Iranians
pp 103-162

Chapter 7 - Berossus
pp 105-116

Chapter 8 - The Greek novelNinus andSemiramis
pp 117-126

Chapter 9 - Ctesias, the Achaemenid court, and the history of the Greek novel*
pp 127-141

Chapter 10 - Iskander and the idea of Iran
pp 142-162

Part III - Jews and Phoenicians
pp 163-222

Chapter 11 - Josephus’ Esther and diaspora Judaism*
pp 165-182

Chapter 12 - The Eastern king in the Hebrew Bible
pp 183-195

Chapter 13 - Lost in translation
pp 196-210

Chapter 14 - Milesiae Punicae
pp 211-222

Part IV - Anatolians
pp 223-258

Chapter 15 - The victory of Greek Ionia in Xenophon's Ephesiaca*
pp 225-242

CHAPTER 16 - ‘Milesian tales’
pp 243-258

Part V - Transmission and Reception
pp 259-335

Chapter 17 - Does triviality translate? TheLife of Aesoptravels East
pp 261-284

Chapter 18 - Mime and the romance*
pp 285-299

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