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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: representation of slavery in the Greek novel
    sub title: resistance and appropriation
  name:
    name part: Owens, William M.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: ix, 244 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: This volume offers the first comprehensive treatment of how the five canonical Greek novels represent slaves and slavery. In each novel, one or both elite protagonists are enslaved, and Owens explores the significance of the genre's regular social degradation of these members of the elite. Reading the novels in the context of social attitudes and stereotypes about slaves, Owens argues for an ideological division within the genre, the earlier novelists, Xenophon of Ephesus and Chariton, challenge and undermine elite stereotypes. The three later novelists, Longus, Achilles Tatius and Heliodorus, affirm them. The critique of elite thinking about slavery in Xenophon and Chariton opens the possibility that these earlier authors and their readers included literate ex-slaves. The interests and needs of these authors and their readers shaped the emerging genre and not only made the protagonists' slavery a key motif but also made slavery itself a theme that helped define the genre. The Representation of Slavery in the Greek Novel will be of interest not only to students of the ancient novel but also to anyone working on slavery in the ancient world.
  note: William M. Owens.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-238) and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-gr---
    geographic code: ff-----
  subject:
    topic: Greek prose literature
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Slavery in literature
  subject:
    topic: Slavery
    geographic: Greece
  subject:
    topic: Slavery
    geographic: Rome
  classification: PA3257 .O94 2020
  classification: 883.009/3582
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Routledge monographs in classical studies
  identifier: 0367348756
  identifier: 9780367348755
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    record creation date: 190827
    record change date: 20200420142425.0
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