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The Novel in the Ancient World
Revised Edition
Editor:
From classics and history to Jewish rabbinic narratives and the canonical and noncanonical gospels of earliest Christianity, the relevance of studying the novel of the later classical periods of Greek and Rome is widely endorsed. Ancient novels contain insights beyond literary theories and philosophical musings to new sources for understanding the popular culture of antiquity. Some scholars, in fact, refer to ancient novels as âalternative histories,â for they tell history implicitly rather than with the intentional biases of the historian. The Novel in the Ancient World surveys the new approaches and insights to the ancient novel and wrestles with issues such as the development, transformation, and christianization of the novel (Spirit-inspired versus inspired by the Muses).
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Gareth Schmeling is Professor of Classics, University of Florida.
This volume is for students of Classics; those in modern languages interested in the complete history of the novel; those fascinated by the survival of classical literature into the postmodern age; and those cultural and religious historians familiar with Greece and Rome.