A Commentary on Books 3 and 4 of Achilles Tatius’ Leucippe and Clitophon

John Hilton (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

414 Seiten

2024
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-69152-0 (ISBN)

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This book presents a full commentary on a subversive second-century narrative of the shipwreck, capture by bandits, apparent human sacrifice, hippopotamus hunting, poisoning, and sightseeing of two young lovers on the run from parental authority in Egypt’s Nile delta.

This volume presents a new account, informed by recent scholarship on ancient narrative fiction, of a world that calls to mind the scenes of the Palestrina mosaic, with ships traversing the Nile delta, hippopotamus hunting, religious processions and festivities, and leizurely sightseeing. The commentary argues that the author was most probably an erudite Alexandrian with a polymathic interest in topics as diverse as the arrival of the phoenix in Heliopolis, contemporary art, medical theories of the function of blood in causing psychological imbalances in the young, herbal remedies for poisoning, and the colour of Nile water in glass.

John Hilton is a researcher in Classics at the University of the Free State, South Africa. He has published widely in the fields of the ancient Greek and Roman novel, Classics Reception Studies, ancient slavery, Roman Law, and onomastics.

Preface

References and Abbreviations

Introduction

1 A Subversive Novel

2 The Author

3 The Date of the Author

4 The Dramatic Date of the Novel

5 Contemporary Elements in L&C

6 Ancient Fiction and the Modern Novel

7 Narrative Technique

8 Structure

9 The Naming of Minor Characters and Slaves

10 Literary Texture and Intertextuality

11 Medicine and Magic

12 Religion, Realism, and Ridicule

13 Reception

14 Language and Style

15 The Text

Sigla

Achilles Tatius: Leucippe and Clitophon: Book Three

The Structure of Book 3

Book 3: Text, Translation, and Commentary

Achilles Tatius: Leucippe and Clitophon: Book Four

The Structure of Book 4

Book 4: Text, Translation, and Commentary

Appendix 1: Passages from Ps.-Eustathius

Appendix 2: List of Characters

Appendix 3: Maps and Illustrations

Appendix 4: Statistics

References

Index Nominum

Index Locorum

Index Rerum

Index Graecitatis

Erscheinungsdatum	30.01.2024
Reihe/Serie	Mnemosyne, Supplements ; 480
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	834 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
ISBN-10	90-04-69152-9 / 9004691529
ISBN-13	978-90-04-69152-0 / 9789004691520
Zustand	Neuware