Fantasy in Greek and Roman literature

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Fantasy in Greek and Roman literature

Graham Anderson

（Routledge monographs in classical studies）

Routledge, 2021, c2020

  • : pbk

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First published in hardback, 2020

Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-216) and index

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内容説明

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 in lesser-known texts.

目次

  • 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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