The Greek Novels have moved from the margins to the centre-stage over recent decades, not just because of their literary qualities and thrilling narratives, but also because they offer revealing insights into the culture of the Greek world of the Roman Empire: sexual mores, the position of women and men, identity, religion. Achilles Tatius' Leucippe and Clitophon, the most influential of the novels in antiquity, remains the favourite of many. With its freewheeling plotline, its setting on the edge of the Greek world (in modern Lebanon), its ironic play with the reader's expectations and its sallies into obscenity, it represents a new, mature, sophisticated stage in the development of the novel as a genre. This is the first commentary in English on Achilles for over 50 years, a period that has seen great strides forward in the understanding of the literary, linguistic and textual interpretation of this brilliant text.
Edited by:
Tim Whitmarsh (University of Cambridge)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 216mm,
Width: 138mm,
Spine: 19mm
Weight: 400g
ISBN: 9781316640593
ISBN 10: 1316640590
Series: Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics
Pages: 294
Publication Date: 11 June 2020
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Primary
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Introduction; 1. Author, Date, Context; 2. Achilles and his Literary Context; 3. Books 1 and 2; 4. Allusion, Rhetoric, Narrative, Language; 5. Location, Setting, Environment; 6. Ethics, Philosophy, Culture; 7. Text; Sigla; Achilles Tatius: Leucippe and Clitophon Books I-II; Commentary.
TIM WHITMARSH is the A. G. Leventis Professor of Greek Culture at the University of Cambridge; he also holds honorary roles at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and the Universities of Pretoria and Exeter. He is the author of seven books, including most recently Beyond the Second Sophistic (2013), which won the Goodwin Order of Merit; Battling the Gods: Atheism in the Ancient World (2015) and Dirty Love: The Genealogy of the Ancient Greek Novel (2018).
Reviews for Achilles Tatius: Leucippe and Clitophon Books I–II
'… this book is an unquestionable success; it will be as useful to students meeting Leucippe and Clitophon for the first time as it will be to specialists, who will learn much here (however familiar they are with the novel).' Jean-Philippe Guez, Bryn Mawr Classical Review
