Philosophy and the Ancient Novel(English, Hardcover, unknown)

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Philosophy and the Ancient Novel(English, Hardcover, unknown) is written by unknown and published by Barkhuis. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9491431897 (ISBN 10) and 9789491431890 (ISBN 13).

The papers assembled in this volume explore a relatively new area in scholarship on the ancient novel: the relationship between an ostensibly non-philosophical genre and philosophy. This approach opens up several original themes for further research and debate. Platonising fiction was popular in the Second Sophistic and it took a variety of forms, ranging from the intertextual to the allegorical, and discussions of the origins of the novel-genre in antiquity have centred on the role of Socratic dialogue in general and Plato's dialogues in particular as important precursors. The papers in this collection cover a variety of genres, ranging from the Greek and Roman novels to utopian narratives and fictional biographies, and seek by diverse methods to detect philosophical resonances in these texts.