Dreams and Suicides : The Greek Novel from Antiquity to the Byzantine Empire

Thoughtful delivery service

Easy 30 day returns

Certified Reviews

Description

Dreams and Suicides : The Greek Novel from Antiquity to the Byzantine EmpireThis study discusses the Greek novel through the ages, from the genre's flowering in late Antiquity to its learned revival in twelfth century Byzantium. Its unique feature is its full coverage of the Byzantine novels, demonstrating that they both depend upon and react against the ancient novel, and can only be understood against the cultural backdrop of ancient Greek literature. Dreams and Suicides analyses the cultural symptoms and attitudes

and substance it is perhaps the most accomplished of the genre as we know it

in forty-eight books

theme and dialogue provides an excellent introduction to Plautus

both Greek and English

a murdered wife in a hotel room and an inheritance

in which love

a younger contemporary

of love and war

and its emergence the single most transformative development in Western history

he tells a story vivid with drama

beginning in post-colonial Egypt in the 1920s

Οδός Ισαύρων…