Fiction and education in the Roman world : the cultivation of the reader / Jacqueline Arthur-Montagne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Arthur-Montagne, Jacqueline, author.

Series:

Greek culture in the Roman world

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Classical fiction--Study and teaching--Rome.

Classical fiction.

Education, Ancient--Rome.

Education, Ancient.

Latin fiction--History and criticism.

Latin fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2026.

Summary:

"What was fiction in the Roman world – and how did ancient readers learn to make sense of it? This book redefines ancient fiction not as a genre but as a sociocultural practice, governed by the institutions of Greco-Roman education. Drawing on modern fiction theory, it uncovers how fables, epic, and rhetorical training cultivated “fiction competence” in readers from childhood through advanced studies. But it also reveals how the ancient novels – including Greek romance, fictional biography, and the fragmentary novels – subverted the very rules of fiction pedagogy they inherited. Through incisive close readings of a wide array of canonical and paraliterary texts, this book reframes the classical curriculum as the engine of literary imagination in antiquity. For classicists, literary theorists, and anyone interested in ancient education, it offers a provocative reassessment of fiction's place in cultural history – and of how readers learned to believe, disbelieve, and decode narrative meaning."-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge Core, viewed March 30, 2026).

Other Format:

Print version: Arthur-Montagne, Jacqueline Fiction and education in the Roman world

ISBN:

9781009721622

1009721623

9781009721639

1009721631

OCLC:

1579846921

Publisher Number:

CIPO000352919

CIPO000355838

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license