Collected Ancient Greek Novels
With a NewForeword by J. R. Morgan
Edited byB.P. Reardon
University of California Press
ISBN : 978-0-520-25655-2
Description de l'éditeur
Prosefiction, although not always associated with classical antiquity, did in factflourish in the early Roman Empire, not only in realistic Latin novels but alsoand indeed principally in the Greek ideal romance of love and adventure towhich they are related. Popular in the Renaissance, these stories have beenless familiar in later centuries. Translations of the Greek stories were notreadily available in English before B.P. Reardon's excellent volume.
Ninecomplete stories are included here as well as ten others, encompassing thewhole range of classical themes: ideal romance, travel adventure, historicalfiction, and comic parody.
A newforeword by J.R. Morgan examines the enormous impact this groundbreakingcollection has had on our understanding of classical thought and our concept ofthe novel.
L'éditeur
B.P.Reardon is Professor Emeritus of Classics at the University of California, Irvine. J.R. Morgan is Professor of Greekat Swansea University.