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A Commentary on Books 3 and 4 of Achilles Tatius’ Leucippe and Clitophon
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English
Published/Copyright:
2024
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This volume presents a new account, informed by recent scholarship on ancient narrative fiction, of a world that calls to mind the scenes of the Palestrina mosaic, with ships traversing the Nile delta, hippopotamus hunting, religious processions and festivities, and leizurely sightseeing. The commentary argues that the author was most probably an erudite Alexandrian with a polymathic interest in topics as diverse as the arrival of the phoenix in Heliopolis, contemporary art, medical theories of the function of blood in causing psychological imbalances in the young, herbal remedies for poisoning, and the colour of Nile water in glass.
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John Hilton is a researcher in Classics at the University of the Free State, South Africa. He has published widely in the fields of the ancient Greek and Roman novel, Classics Reception Studies, ancient slavery, Roman Law, and onomastics.
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eBook published on:
February 26, 2024
eBook ISBN:
9789004691537
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Main content:
414
eBook ISBN:
9789004691537
Keywords for this book
Ancient Greek fiction; Roman Empire; Nile delta; shipwreck; bandits; Roman army; ancient medicine; religious change
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This volume will be of interest to professional scholars, academics, postgraduates, undergraduates, and librarians in the fields of Classical Philology, Ancient Greek Literature, and Ancient Fiction.
