Studies in Heliodorus / edited by Richard Hunter.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hunter, Richard.

Series:

Supplementary volume (Cambridge Philological Society) ; no. 21.

Supplementary volume ; no. 21

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Heliodorus, of Emesa--Criticism and interpretation.

Heliodorus.

Heliodorus, of Emesa. Aethiopica.

Romances, Byzantine--History and criticism.

Romances, Byzantine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (239 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Havertown : Cambridge Philological Society, 2020.

Summary:

Nine essays on Heliodorus' Aithiopika, assessing narrative technique, the construction of culture and the work's reception by more recent cultures.

Contents:

I Narrative technique. Phoenician games in Heliodorus' Aithiopika / Ewen Bowie

A reading of Heliodorus, Aithiopika 3.4.1

3.5.2 / Philip Hardie

The Aithiopika of Heliodorus: beyond interpretation? / Richard Hunter

Narrative doublets in Heliodorus' Aithiopika / J.R. Morgan

II. The construction of culture. An Ethioplan paradox: Heliodorus, Aithiopika 4.8 / John Hilton

The birth of a prodigy: Heliodorus and the genealogy of hellenism / Tim Whitmarsh

III. Reception. Narrative, rhetoric, and 'drama' rediscovered: scholars and poets in Byzantium interpret Heliodorus / Panagiotis A. Agapitos

Heliodorus Parthenopaeus: the Aithiopika in baroque Naples / Clotilde Bertoni and Massimo Fusillo

Aithiopika and ethiopianism / Daniel L. Selden.

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Other Format:

Print version: Hunter, Richard Studies in Heliodorus

ISBN:

9781913701277

1913701271

OCLC:

1292354361