Graham Anderson

Fantasy in Greek and Roman Literature (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429642340
• Artikelnr.: 57079662

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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