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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"imperial Greek literature"”.
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Unflattening the page: Lucian, ecphrasis, and the embodied reader
… work of Lucian, a second-century CE Syrian-Greek writer, and one of the most prolific and versatile writers of Greek imperial literature. It argues that imperial, and in particular Lucianic, ecphrasis (a vivid style of descriptive writing which aims to bring its subject matter ‘before the …
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The Mythology of Ecphrasis in Rome and Roman Greece (50 BC - 500 AD)
Greek and Latin literature of the Roman empire is full of descriptions of artworks (a phenomenon known as “ecphrasis”). Even though these descriptions have received much scholarly attention in recent decades, Classicists have not yet taken seriously an approach to ecphrasis that was demonstrably …
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A Study of Dares Phrygius and Dictys Cretensis as Early Imperial Greek Texts and Late Antique Latin Translations
… textual influences. It analyses separately the Greek originals and their Latin translations, which were produced in radically different literary environments. Chapter 1 examines the Greek originals within the context of Second Sophistic Homeric revisionism, focusing on Dio Chrysostom’s Trojan …
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Into the snake pit: Heliodorus's Aethiopica and cognitive pluralism
… what I call ‘cognitive identities’ of the late imperial era—by which I mean those elements of social identity that concern methods of information processing. To conclude, my thesis aims to achieve something that has all too often remained an unfulfilled promise in narratologically oriented …