{"product_id":"ancient-fiction-routledge-revivals-paperback-softback","title":"Ancient Fiction (Routledge Revivals) - Paperback \/ softback","description":"\u003cp\u003eA number of ancient novelists were skilful storytellers and resourceful literary artists, and their works are often carefully individualised presentations of an ancient and distinguished heritage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAncient Fiction, first published in 1984, examines the tales retold by these novelists in light of more recently discovered Near Eastern texts, and in this way offers a tentative solution to Rohde’s celebrated problem about the origins of the Greek novel. Among the surprises that emerge are an ancient stratum of the \u003ci\u003eArabian Nights \u003c\/i\u003eand a possible \u003ci\u003eTristan-Romance\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as an animal \u003ci\u003eSatyricon \u003c\/i\u003eand a human \u003ci\u003eGolden Ass\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis new framework is, however, incidental to an examination of the achievements of ancient novelists in their own right. In presenting character, structuring narrative, imposing a veneer of sophistication or contriving a religious ethos, these writers demonstrate that their work is worthy of sympathetic study, rather dismissal as the pulp fiction of the ancient world. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45564358623470,"sku":"9781138013223","price":91.2,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9781138013223_d7481987-4e31-43ee-b59d-62f7eb6efec9.jpg?v=1720667640","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/ancient-fiction-routledge-revivals-paperback-softback","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}