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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Preface ix
- ONE. Description and Interpretation in the Second Sophistic 3
- TWO. Pictorial Description: Clues, Conventions, Girls, and Gardens 40
- THREE. Dreams, Oracles, and Oracular Dreams: Misinterpretation and Motivation 80
- FOUR. Descriptions of Spectacles: The Reader as Audience, the Author as Playwright 109
- FIVE. The Other Descriptions: Relation to Narrative and Reader 144
- SIX. The Role of Description 171
- APPENDIX. Summaries of Leucippe and Clitophon and the Aethiopica 179
- Bibliography 185
- Index Locorum 191
- General Index 196
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Preface ix
- ONE. Description and Interpretation in the Second Sophistic 3
- TWO. Pictorial Description: Clues, Conventions, Girls, and Gardens 40
- THREE. Dreams, Oracles, and Oracular Dreams: Misinterpretation and Motivation 80
- FOUR. Descriptions of Spectacles: The Reader as Audience, the Author as Playwright 109
- FIVE. The Other Descriptions: Relation to Narrative and Reader 144
- SIX. The Role of Description 171
- APPENDIX. Summaries of Leucippe and Clitophon and the Aethiopica 179
- Bibliography 185
- Index Locorum 191
- General Index 196