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  title info:
    title: Reading Heliodorus' Aethiopica
  name:
    name part: Repath, Ian
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Whitmarsh, Tim
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2022
    copyright date: 2022
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (312 pages).
  abstract: Focusing on the latest, longest, and greatest of the ancient Greek romances, this volume exploring Heliodorus' Aethiopica brings together fifteen established experts, each exploring a passage or section of the text in depth.
  table of contents: Cover -- Reading Heliodorus' Aethiopica -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- 1: Introduction: Reading Heliodorus -- 2: Odyssean and Herodotean Threads in the Tainia of Heliodorus' Opening Chapters (1.1-5) -- 3: Visualizing Assemblages: Demaenete, Thisbe's Bed-Trick,and the Creation of Charicleia (1.15-17) -- 3.1 Demaenete's Incestuous Desire -- 3.2. The Bed-Trick -- 3.3. Visualizing Charicleia -- 4: Thisbe's Intrigue: A Plot between Deception and Illusion (1.15-17) -- 5: Theagenes' Second Lament (2.4) -- 5.1. Theagenes' Lament and the Reception of Heliodorus -- 5.2. Theagenes' Second Lament in Context -- 6: Cnemon Meets Calasiris (2.21-2) -- 6.1. The Literary References -- 6.2. Narratological Paradoxes -- 6.3. Suspense -- 7: Allegory, Recognition, and Identity: The Egyptian Homer in Context (3.11.5-15.1) -- 7.1. Appearance and Reality in Calasiris' Vision (3.11.5-12.1) -- 7.2. Recognizing the Gods and Reading Homer -- 7.3. Neoplatonism, Calasiris, and Allegorical Logic -- 7.4. Homer's Biography -- 7.5. Reading the Figure of Homer -- 8: The Mustering of the Delphians (4.19-21) -- 8.1. Beginning Again -- 8.2. How Do Wars Start? -- 8.3. Questions of Consent -- 8.4. Conclusion -- 9: Calasiris on Zacynthus and His Dream of Odysseus (5.17-22) -- 9.1. The Voyage to Zacynthus: Navigation, Realism, and Intertextual Opportunity -- 9.2. The Heliodoran Odysseus -- 10: Life, the Cosmos, and Everything (5.26-34) -- 10.1. Context -- 10.2. The Pirate's Interpretation of the Good -- 10.3. The Expert's Interpretation of the Storm -- 10.4. The Interpretation of the Arrival and of the Celebrations -- 10.5. Misplaced and Incongruous Visions and Priorities -- 10.6. Epic (and Other) Associations -- 10.7. Refocusing -- 10.8. Closure and Remembering the daimonion -- 10.9. Statue, Conceptions of Divinity, Resignation.
  table of contents: 10.10. Appendix on 'Butness' -- 11: On the Road Again (6.1-4) -- 11.1. Keep Going! -- 11.2. Cnemon on Stage -- 11.3. Narrative Withheld -- 11.4. Connecting Narratives -- 11.5. Stupefied Silences -- 11.6. Conclusions -- 12: Charicleia's Dark Night of the Soul (6.8-11) -- 13: Epic into Drama (7.6-8)* -- 14: Enter Arsace and Her Entourage!: Lust, Gender, Ethnicity, and Class at the Persian Court (Books 7 and 8) -- 14.1. Preliminaries -- 14.2. The Multidimensional Court of Arsace -- 14.3. Portrait of Arsace -- 14.4. Cultural Hybridity -- 14.5. Gender and Ethnicity -- 14.6. Social Status and Class Resentment: Achaemenes -- 15: Sending the Reader Round the Bend (8.14-17) -- 15.1. Content and Context -- 15.2. The Characters' Perspectives and Reader's Expectations -- 15.3. The Setting in the Bend -- 15.4. The Bend in the Nile -- 15.5. Ambush, Colour, Siege, and Sacrifice -- 15.6. Conclusion -- 16: The Siege of Syene: Ekphrasis and Imagination (9.3) -- 16.1. The Passage and Its Context -- 16.2. Ways and Means -- 16.3. A Portrait of the King as a Military Leader -- 16.4. Figures in the Earth -- 16.5. Hydaspes' Works as a Metaliterary Artefact -- 16.6. Hydaspes as Author and Creator -- 16.7. Conclusion -- 17: Sphragis 1: To Infinity and Beyond (10.41.4) -- 18: Sphragis 2: The Limits of Reality and the End of the Novel (10.41.3-4) -- 18.1. Historiographical Posing(?) -- 18.2. The End of the Novel(?) -- References -- Index Locorum -- General Index.
  target audience: Specialized.
  target audience: specialized
  note: edited by Ian Repath and Tim Whitmarsh.
  note: This edition also issued in print: 2022.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: of Emesa
      name part: Heliodorus
  subject:
    title info:
      title: Aethiopica (Heliodorus, of Emesa)
  subject:
    topic: Greece
  subject:
    topic: Ancient
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY COLLECTIONS
  subject:
    topic: Ancient & Classical
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM
  classification: PA3998.H2 R43 2022
  classification: 883/.01
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    title info:
      title: Reading Heliodorus's Aethiopica
    origin info:
      publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022
      edition: First edition.
    identifier: (OCoLC)1289987486
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    record content source: STBDS
    record creation date: 220216
    record change date: 20260318164130.7
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    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng