Jolowicz Daniel (Lecturer In Ancient Greek And Latin Languages And Literature Lecturer In Ancient Greek And Latin Languages And Literature King's College London) - Latin Poetry In The Ancient Greek Novels - Hardcover

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Description: Latin Poetry in the Ancient Greek Novels establishes and explores connections between Greek imperial literature and Latin poetry. This work challenges conventional thinking about literary and cultural interaction of the period which assumes that imperial Greeks were not much interested in Roman cultural products (especially literature). Instead it argues that Latin poetry is a crucially important frame of reference for Greek imperial literature. This has significant ramifications bearing on the question of bilingual allusion and intertextuality as well as on that of cultural interaction during the imperial period more generally. Three of these novels in particular - Chariton's Chaereas and Callirhoe Achilles Tatius Clitophon and Leucippe and Longus Daphnis and Chloe - are analysed for the extent to which they allude to Latin poetry and for the effects (literary and ideological) of such allusion. After establishing the cultural context and parameters of the study each chapter pursues the strategies of an individual novelist in connection with Latin poetry. The work offers the first book - length study of the role of Latin literature in Greek literary culture under the empire and thus provides fresh perspectives and new approaches to the literature and culture of this period.
Title: Latin Poetry In The Ancient Greek Novels
Author(s): Jolowicz Daniel (Lecturer In Ancient Greek And Latin Languages And Literature Lecturer In Ancient Greek And Latin Languages And Literature King's College London)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Barcode: 9780192894823
Pages: 416 Pages
Publication Date: 6/15/2021
Series: Oxford Classical Monographs
Category: Classical History / Classical Civilisation