Dirty love : the genealogy of the ancient Greek novel / Tim Whitmarsh.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Onassis series in Hellenic culture.
Main Author: Whitmarsh, Tim (Author)
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018]
Series:Onassis series in Hellenic culture.
Subjects:
Greek fiction > History and criticism.
Greek fiction.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Genre:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Physical Description:xviii, 201 pages ; 25 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Prelude
  • First movement: Hellenism and hybridity
  • Dirty love
  • A history of the novel
  • What is a novel?
  • Epic and novel
  • Sourcing Callirhoe
  • Second movement: Persians
  • The romance of Zarinaea and Stryangaeus
  • Who was Ctesias?
  • Persian love stories
  • Media studies
  • Cyrus' sex life
  • Third movement: Jews
  • Return to Joseph
  • The Jewish novel
  • Joseph in love
  • Fourth movement: Egyptians
  • The long Hellenistic
  • Alexander in kohl
  • Whose paradigm?
  • Fifth movement: how Greek is the Greek romance?
  • How Greek is the Greek romance?
  • Romancing Semiramis
  • Dirty love in late antiquity
  • Conclusion: the foundation of Marseilles, some brooch-pins, and the history of the novel.