Achilles Tatius : Leucippe and Clitophon

by: Whitmarsh, T. Morales, H.

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Achilles Tatius: Leucippe and Clitophon
Tim Whitmarsh and Introduction by Helen Morales
Recent revival of interest in the 'Greek novel'
Bizarre, erotic, and risque content
New translation, which aims to capture the exuberant varity of Achilles Tatius' writing
Includes an introduction which sets the text in its historical and literary contexts and detailed explanatory notes.
Influence of Leucippe and Clitophon on the literature of the Renaissance and the Early Modern novel

Description
Achilles Tatius' Leucippe and Clitophon (composed in the second century AD) is the most bizarre and risque of the four 'Greek novels' of idealized love between boy and girl that survive from the period of the Roman empire. Stretching the capacity of the genre to the limits, Achilles Tatius' narrative covers adultery, violence, evisceration, pederasty, virginity-testing, and, of course, an improbable happy ending. Ingenious and sophisticated in conception, Leucippe and Clitophon is, in execution, at once subtle, stylish, moving, brash, tasteless, and obscene. This new translation aims to capture the exuberant variety of Achilles Tatius' writing. Detailed notes explain obscurities to the non-specialist and address more complex problems for the benefit of the student and the scholar. A witty and erudite introduction sets Achilles Tatius in his historical and literary contexts.

Table of Contents
Introduction
Note on the Translation
Select Bibliography
Chronology of the Ancient Novel
Map
LEUCIPPE AND CLITOPHON
Explanatory Notes
Glossary: Names in Leucippe and Clitophon

Author Information
Tim Whitmarsh, Tim Whitmarsh is Leverhulme Lecturer in Hellenistic Literature, University of Exeter, and Introduction by Helen Morales, Helen Morales is Lecturer in Classics and Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge

Achilles Tatius : Leucippe and Clitophon

by: Whitmarsh, T. Morales, H.

• ISBN-13: 9780198152897 / 978-0-19-815289-7
• ISBN-03: 0198152892 / 0-19-815289-2
• Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2001

Price: 129,00 EURO

1 copy in stock