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  1. Fantasy in Greek and Roman literature
    Author: Anderson, Graham
    Published: [2019]; © 2019
    Publisher:  Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon

    Fantasy in Greek and Roman Literature offers an overview of Greek and Roman excursions into fantasy, including imaginary voyages, dream-worlds, talking animals and similar impossibilities. This is a territory seldom explored and extends to rarely... more

     

    Fantasy in Greek and Roman Literature offers an overview of Greek and Roman excursions into fantasy, including imaginary voyages, dream-worlds, talking animals and similar impossibilities. This is a territory seldom explored and extends to rarely read texts such as the Aesop Romance, The Battle of the Frogs and the Mice, and The Pumpkinification of the Emperor Claudius. Bringing this diverse material together for the first time, Anderson widens readers' perspectives on the realm of fantasy in ancient literature, including topics such as dialogues with the dead, Utopian communities and fantastic feasts. Going beyond the more familiar world of myth, his examples range from The Golden Ass to the Late Antique Testament of a Pig. The volume also explores ancient resistance to the world of make-believe. Fantasy in Greek and Roman Literature is an invaluable resource not only for students of classical and comparative literature, but also for modern writers on fantasy who want to explore the genre's origins in antiquity, both in the more obvious and inlesser-known texts

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780429639173; 0429639171; 9780429029578; 0429029578; 9780429642340; 0429642342
    Series: Routledge monographs in classical studies
    Routledge monographs in classical studies
    Subjects: Fantasy in literature; Classical literature / History and criticism
    Scope: 1 online resource (x, 222 pages)
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  2. Fantasy in Greek and Roman literature
    Author: Anderson, Graham
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Routledge,, Abingdon, Oxon

    Cover; Half-Title; Series; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; List of abbreviations; 1 Introduction; PART I Themes of fantasy; 2 Otherworldly conversations in antiquity; 3 Talking animals, monstrous creatures; 4 Fantastic voyages, other... more

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    Cover; Half-Title; Series; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; List of abbreviations; 1 Introduction; PART I Themes of fantasy; 2 Otherworldly conversations in antiquity; 3 Talking animals, monstrous creatures; 4 Fantastic voyages, other communities; 5 Dreams, apparitions, horror; 6 Some fantastic aspects of myth; 7 The ultimate myth: Metamorphosis; 8 Bizarre banquets, topsy-turvy tables; 9 Planting the phallus; PART II Divergent imaginations; 10 Verse fantasy into prose; 11 Inventing the past in Homer and Philostratus; PART III Fantastic texts

     
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780429029578; 0429029578; 9780429636004; 0429636008; 9780429639173; 0429639171; 9780429642340; 0429642342
    Series: Routledge monographs in classical studies
    Subjects: Fantasy in literature; Classical literature; Fantasy in literature; Classical literature ; History and criticism; HISTORY / Ancient / General ; bisacsh; HISTORY / Ancient / General
    Scope: 1 online resource.
  3. Fantasy in Greek and Roman literature
    Author: Anderson, Graham
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  Routledge,, Abingdon, Oxon

    Cover; Half-Title; Series; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; List of abbreviations; 1 Introduction; PART I Themes of fantasy; 2 Otherworldly conversations in antiquity; 3 Talking animals, monstrous creatures; 4 Fantastic voyages, other... more

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    Cover; Half-Title; Series; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; List of abbreviations; 1 Introduction; PART I Themes of fantasy; 2 Otherworldly conversations in antiquity; 3 Talking animals, monstrous creatures; 4 Fantastic voyages, other communities; 5 Dreams, apparitions, horror; 6 Some fantastic aspects of myth; 7 The ultimate myth: Metamorphosis; 8 Bizarre banquets, topsy-turvy tables; 9 Planting the phallus; PART II Divergent imaginations; 10 Verse fantasy into prose; 11 Inventing the past in Homer and Philostratus; PART III Fantastic texts

     
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780429029578; 0429029578; 9780429636004; 0429636008; 9780429639173; 0429639171; 9780429642340; 0429642342
    Series: Routledge monographs in classical studies
    Subjects: Fantasy in literature; Classical literature; Fantasy in literature; Classical literature ; History and criticism; HISTORY / Ancient / General ; bisacsh; HISTORY / Ancient / General
    Scope: 1 online resource.
  4. Fantasy in Greek and Roman Literature
    Author: Anderson, Graham
    Published: 2019; ©2019
    Publisher:  Routledge, Milton

    Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Towards a definition -- Imagining the gods, or a three-headed man -- Some examples... more

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    Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Towards a definition -- Imagining the gods, or a three-headed man -- Some examples from Longinus -- Fantasy or mouse-epic? -- Disapproval of fantasy -- In search of fantasy -- The operation of fantasy -- Longus and the elusiveness of myth -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Part I Themes of fantasy -- Chapter 2 Otherworldly conversations in antiquity -- More talking to the dead -- Conversations with the gods -- Some exotic settings -- Heroic correspondence -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Chapter 3 Talking animals, monstrous creatures -- More elaborate developments -- The folklore of fable -- The traditional mythical monsters -- Centaurs, satyrs and others -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Chapter 4 Fantastic voyages, other communities -- Travellers' tales -- Dionysus and the Pirates -- Once more the appetite for marvels -- The Utopian tradition -- Resurrecting Atlantis -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Chapter 5 Dreams, apparitions, horror -- Two versions of dreamland -- Some dream interpretation -- A special case: Artemidorus' Oneirocritica -- Dreams of Perpetua -- Day-dreams -- Apparitions -- Two versions of the unburied corpse -- Horror -- Magic and magicians -- Curses -- Perverted art -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Chapter 6 Some fantastic aspects of myth -- Down and up again: the impossible Underworld -- Virgil and Ovid on Orpheus and Eurydice -- Heaven or Olympus -- Standard mythical narrative: the case of Europa -- Some Second Sophistic treatments -- Conclusions -- Notes -- Chapter 7 The ultimate myth: metamorphosis -- Towards a science of change? -- A rationale of metamorphosis? -- Exploiting the grotesque -- The cases of Circe and Photis -- Some explanations -- Conclusions -- Notes.

     
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780429639173
    Series: Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
    Subjects: Electronic books
    Scope: 1 online resource (235 pages)
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