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Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri (Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana).

Apollonius of Tyre (Fictitious character) --- Apollonius, --- Apollonius Tyrius --- HISTORY / Ancient / General.

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The story of Apollonius King of Tyre has rightly been called the most popular romance of the Middle Ages. From Iceland to Greece, from Spain to Russia, versions of this novel are recorded. It is the variation among the Latin versions and the numerous vernacular adaptations that make this story especially interesting. Shakespeare used and adapted it in his Pericles, Prince of Tyre. Its plot continues to fascinate us. Incest, deception, pirates, famine, sex and shipwreck form its tasty ingredients. Its links with the Greek novel, which today stands in the centre of scholarly interest, are striking. In this book the author attempts to show that the novel originated in Greece, or more precisely Asia Minor, possibly in Tarsus. A graffito from Pergamum and a coin struck in Tarsus at the time of Caracalla’s visit (215 AD) support his conviction. All these aspects make the present book attractive to scholars of many different disciplines.

Apollonius of Tyre (Fictitious character) --- -Romances --- Latin fiction --- Criticism, Textual --- Criticism, Textual. --- Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri. --- Apollonius de Tyr (Personnage légendaire) --- Roman latin --- Romances --- Romances. --- Romans, nouvelles, etc. --- Critique textuelle --- Latin literature --- Apollonius Tyrius (Fictitious character) --- Apollonio, re di Tiro --- Romanzo di Apollonio, re di Tiro --- Apollonius van Tyrus (Literair personage) --- Criticism [Textual ] --- Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri --- Apollonius, --- Apollonius --- Apollonius Tyrius --- Apollonius of Tyre (Fictitious character) - - Romances --- Apollonius de Tyr, --- -Apollonius of Tyre (Fictitious character)

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The origins of the anonymous Late Latin Story of Apollonius, King of Tyre (Historia Apollonii regis Tyri), are disputed, with the narrative commonly being seen as a Christianised folktale of a sub-literary character. Scholars focus mainly on questions of editing the text, seeking its origins (Greek or Latin, pagan or Christian) and exploring its afterlife. This literary and philological commentary discusses aspects of language, style, characterisation, intertextuality, and narrative technique in the earliest existing version of the Story of Apollonius, recension A. It situates the Late Latin text in the context of both ancient prose fiction and pagan and Christian literature. The author offers new arguments in the ongoing debate about the alleged Greek background of the Latin text, and his analysis enables readers to assess the literary character of this unique narrative, which contains elements of “popular” culture (e.g. riddles) and displays thorough knowledge of the Greek and Latin classics. The Commentary views the Story of Apollonius as a crossroad in which the notions of pagan and Christian, Greek and Latin, popular and sophisticated meet and interact in a complex way, reflecting the cultural atmosphere of the era of its creation.

Apollonius of Tyre (Fictitious character) --- Latin fiction --- Apollonius de Tyr (Personnage légendaire) --- Roman latin --- Romances --- Criticism, Textual. --- Romances. --- Romans, nouvelles, etc. --- Critique textuelle --- Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri. --- Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri --- Apollonius de Tyr (Personnage légendaire) --- Apollonio, re di Tiro --- Romanzo di Apollonio, re di Tiro --- Latin literature --- Criticism, Textual --- Apollonius, --- Apollonius Tyrius --- Apollonius, King of Tyre. --- Narrative Technique. --- Reception (Literature).

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"Alexandria was the greatest of the new cities founded by Alexander the Great as his armies swept eastward. It was ruled by his successors, the Ptolemies, who presided over one of the richest and most productive periods in the whole of Greek literature. Susan A Stephens here reveals a cultural world in transition: reverential of the compositions of the past (especially after construction of the great library, repository for all previous Greek oeuvres), but at the same time forward-looking and experimental, willing to make use of previous forms of writing in exciting new ways. The author examines Alexandria's poets in turn. She discusses the strikingly avant-garde Aetia of Callimachus; the idealized pastoral forms of Theocritus (which anticipated the invention of fiction); and the neo-Homerian epic of Apollonius, the Argonautica, with its impressive combination of narrative grandeur and psychological acuity. She shows that all three poets were innovators, even while they looked to the past for inspiration: drawing upon Homer, Hesiod, Pindar and the lyric poets, they emphasized stories and material that were entirely relevant to their own progressive cosmopolitan environment."--Page 4 of cover.

Greek poetry, Hellenistic --- Poetics. --- History and criticism. --- Apollonius, --- Callimachus. --- Posidippus, --- Theocritus.

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Eutocius of Ascalon (4th cent. AD) accompanied his edition of the first four books of Apollonius of Perga''s Konika with a commentary. His work is relevant to the history of conic sections and important for the textual transmission of Apollonius. This new critical edition contains the first translation into a modern language and complements the Graeco-Arabic edition of the first four books of the Konika (SGA 1-2).

Mathematics, Greek --- Conic sections --- Transmission of texts. --- Literary transmission --- Manuscript transmission --- Textual transmission --- Criticism, Textual --- Editions --- Manuscripts --- Curves, Plane --- Geometry, Plane --- Mathematics --- Ellipse --- Geometry, Analytic --- Parabola --- Apollonius, --- Apollonius of Perge. --- Eutocius of Ascalon. --- ancient mathematics. --- conic sections.