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The Greek and Roman novels of Petronius, Apuleius, Longus, Heliodorus and others have been cherished for millennia, but never more so than now. The Cambridge Companion to the Greek and Roman Novel contains nineteen original essays by an international cast of experts in the field. The emphasis is upon the critical interpretation of the texts within historical settings, both in antiquity and in the later generations that have been and continue to be inspired by them. All the central issues of current scholarship are addressed: sexuality, cultural identity, class, religion, politics, narrative, style, readership and much more. Four sections cover cultural context of the novels, their contents, literary form, and their reception in classical antiquity and beyond. Each chapter includes guidance on further reading. This collection will be essential for scholars and students, as well as for others who want an up-to-date, accessible introduction into this exhilarating material.

Fiction --- Classical literature --- Classical fiction --- Roman ancien --- Littérature ancienne --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Littérature grecque --- --Littérature latine --- --Influence --- --Thème --- --History and criticism --- Littérature ancienne --- Greek fiction --- Latin fiction --- Classical fiction - History and criticism --- Littérature latine --- Influence --- Thème --- Roman antique

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"How new is atheism? Although adherents and opponents alike today present it as an invention of the European Enlightenment, when the forces of science and secularism broadly challenged those of faith, disbelief in the gods, in fact, originated in a far more remote past. In Battling the Gods, Tim Whitmarsh journeys into the ancient Mediterranean, a world almost unimaginably different from our own, to recover the stories and voices of those who first refused the divinities. Homer's epic poems of human striving, journeying, and passion were ancient Greece's only "sacred texts," but no ancient Greek thought twice about questioning or mocking his stories of the gods. Priests were functionaries rather than sources of moral or cosmological wisdom. The absence of centralized religious authority made for an extraordinary variety of perspectives on sacred matters, from the devotional to theatheos, or "godless." Whitmarsh explores this kaleidoscopic range of ideas about the gods, focusing on the colorful individuals who challenged their existence. Among these were some of the greatest ancient poets and philosophers and writers, as well as the less well known: Diagoras of Melos, perhaps the first self-professed atheist; Democritus, the first materialist; Socrates, executed for rejecting the gods of the Athenian state; Epicurus and his followers, who thought gods could not intervene in human affairs; the brilliantly mischievous satirist Lucian of Samosata. Before the revolutions of late antiquity, which saw the scriptural religions of Christianity and Islam enforced by imperial might, there were few constraints on belief. Everything changed, however, in the millennium between the appearance of the Homeric poems and Christianity's establishment as Rome's state religion in the fourth century AD. As successive Greco-Roman empires grew in size and complexity, and power was increasingly concentrated in central capitals, states sought to impose collective religious adherence, first to cults devoted to individual rulers, and ultimately to monotheism. In this new world, there was no room for outright disbelief: the label "atheist" was used now to demonize anyone who merely disagreed with the orthodoxy--and so it would remain for centuries." -- Publisher's description

Atheism --- Christianity and atheism. --- Athéisme --- Christianisme et athéisme --- History. --- Histoire --- Greece --- Grèce --- Religion. --- Religion --- Christianity and atheism --- History --- Religion grecque --- Atheism. --- Greece. --- Athéisme --- Christianisme et athéisme --- Grèce --- Religion grecque. --- Christianisme et athéisme. --- Atheism - Greece - History --- Greece - Religion

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The contact zones between the Greco-Roman world and the Near East represent one of the most exciting and fast-moving areas of ancient-world studies. This new collection of essays, by world-renowned experts (and some new voices) in classical, Jewish, Egyptian, Mesopotamian and Persian literature, focuses specifically on prose fiction, or 'the ancient novel'. Twenty chapters either offer fresh readings - from an intercultural perspective - of familiar texts (such as the biblical Esther and Ecclesiastes, Xenophon of Ephesus' Ephesian Story and Dictys of Crete's Journal), or introduce material that may be new to many readers: from demotic Egyptian papyri through old Avestan hymns to a Turkic translation of the Life of Aesop. The volume also considers issues of methodology and the history of scholarship on the topic. A concluding section deals with the question of how narratives, patterns and motifs may have come to be transmitted between cultures.

Greek fiction --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Comparative literature --- Roman grec --- Narration --- Littérature comparée --- History and criticism. --- History --- Greek and Middle Eastern. --- Middle Eastern and Greek. --- Histoire et critique --- Histoire --- Grecque et moyen-orientale --- Moyen-orientale et grecque --- Greece --- Grèce --- Civilization --- Middle Eastern influences. --- Civilisation --- Influence moyen-orientale --- Littérature comparée --- Grèce --- Literature, Comparative --- Philology --- Greek and Middle Eastern --- Middle Eastern and Greek --- History and criticism --- Middle East --- Grecque et moyen-orientale. --- Influence moyen-orientale. --- Arts and Humanities --- Rhetoric --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Narratees (Rhetoric)

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"This volume explores the proposition that the absorption of the Greek world into the Roman empire created a new emphasis upon local identities, much as globalisation in the modern world has done. Localism became the focal point for complex debates: in some cases it was complementary with imperial objectives, but in others tension can be discerned. The volume as a whole seeks to add texture and nuance to the existing literature on Greek identity, which has tended in recent years to emphasise the umbrella category of the Greek, to the detriment of specific polis and regional identities. It also contributes to the growing literature on the Romanisation of provinces, by emphasizing the dialogue between a region's self-identification as a distinct space and its self-awareness as a component of the centrally governed empire"--

Group identity --- Greeks --- Ethnicity --- Regionalism --- Human geography --- Identité collective --- Grecs --- Ethnicité --- Régionalisme --- Géographie humaine --- History --- Ethnic identity --- Histoire --- Identité ethnique --- Greece --- Rome --- Grèce --- Regionale Identität. --- History. --- Geschichte. --- Geschichte (umfassend). --- Griechenland (Altertum) --- Römisches Reich. --- Exeter (2004) --- Griechenland (Altertum). --- Exeter (2004). --- Identité collective --- Ethnicité --- Régionalisme --- Géographie humaine --- Identité ethnique --- Grèce --- Nationalism --- Interregionalism --- Anthropo-geography --- Anthropogeography --- Geographical distribution of humans --- Social geography --- Anthropology --- Geography --- Human ecology --- Collective identity --- Community identity --- Cultural identity --- Social identity --- Identity (Psychology) --- Social psychology --- Collective memory --- Ethnology --- Mediterranean race --- Cultural fusion --- Multiculturalism --- Cultural pluralism

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The embrace of reception theory has been one of the hallmarks of classical studies over the last 30 years. This volume builds on the critical insights thereby gained to consider reception within Greek antiquity itself. Reception, like 'intertextuality', places the emphasis on the creative agency of the later 'receiver' rather than the unilateral influence of the 'transmitter'. It additionally shines the spotlight on transitions into new cultural contexts, on materiality, on intermediality and on the body. Essays range chronologically from the archaic to the Byzantine periods and address literature (prose and verse; Greek, Roman and Greco-Jewish), philosophy, papyri, inscriptions and dance. Whereas the conventional image of ancient Greek classicism is one of quiet reverence, this book, by contrast, demonstrates how rumbustious, heterogeneous and combative it could be.

Classical literature --- Greek literature --- Reader-response criticism. --- Greek influences. --- History and criticism. --- Appreciation. --- Greek literature. --- Greek influence. --- Reader-response criticism --- Reader-oriented criticism --- Reception aesthetics --- Criticism --- Reading --- Literature, Classical --- Literature --- Literature, Ancient --- Latin literature --- Greek influence --- History and criticism