Philosophy and the ancient novel

The papers assembled in this volume explore a relatively new area in scholarship on the ancient novel: the relationship between an ostensibly non-philosophical genre and philosophy. This approach opens up several original themes for further research and debate. Platonising fiction was popular in the...

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Körperschaft: International Conference on the Ancient Novel (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Pinheiro, Marília P. Futre (HerausgeberIn), Montiglio, Silvia (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Groningen Barkhuis ; Groningen University Library 2015
Schriftenreihe:Ancient narrative. Supplementum 20
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Zusammenfassung:The papers assembled in this volume explore a relatively new area in scholarship on the ancient novel: the relationship between an ostensibly non-philosophical genre and philosophy. This approach opens up several original themes for further research and debate. Platonising fiction was popular in the Second Sophistic and it took a variety of forms, ranging from the intertextual to the allegorical, and discussions of the origins of the novel-genre in antiquity have centred on the role of Socratic dialogue in general and Plato's dialogues in particular as important precursors. The papers in this collection cover a variety of genres, ranging from the Greek and Roman novels to utopian narratives and fictional biographies, and seek by diverse methods to detect philosophical resonances in these texts
Beschreibung:"The present volume contains ten expanded and revised papers presented at the Fourth International Conference an the Ancient Novel (ICAN IV), held in Lisbon ... in July 2008"
Beschreibung:xiii, 179 Seiten
ISBN:9789491431890
978-94-91431-89-0