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.
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.
Graham Anderson is Emeritus Professor of Classics at the University of Kent, UK. He has written extensively on ancient fiction and fantasy, including Fairytale in the Ancient World (Routledge, 2000) and Greek and Roman Folklore (2006). He has just completed an anthology of ancient fairy tales for Routledge.
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Preface List of Abbreviations 1 Introduction Part One: 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: Sexual Fantasy Part Two: Divergent Imaginations 10 Verse Fantasy into Prose 11 Inventing the Past in Homer and Philostratus Part Three: Fantastic Texts 12 Old Comedy and Lucian 13 Getting into Heaven: Icaromenippus and Apocolocyntosis 14 The Summation of Fantasy: Lucian's True Histories Part Four: Consumers of Fantasy 15 Narrators and Audiences for Fantasy 16 Some Approaches, Ancient and Modern 17 Conclusions Appendix: Some Fantastic Nonsense Bibliography Index
Preface List of Abbreviations 1 Introduction Part One: 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: Sexual Fantasy Part Two: Divergent Imaginations 10 Verse Fantasy into Prose 11 Inventing the Past in Homer and Philostratus Part Three: Fantastic Texts 12 Old Comedy and Lucian 13 Getting into Heaven: Icaromenippus and Apocolocyntosis 14 The Summation of Fantasy: Lucian's True Histories Part Four: Consumers of Fantasy 15 Narrators and Audiences for Fantasy 16 Some Approaches, Ancient and Modern 17 Conclusions Appendix: Some Fantastic Nonsense Bibliography Index
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