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  title info:
    title: Egypt, Ethiopia, and the Greek novel
    sub title: between representation and resistance
  name:
    name part: Cioffi, Robert
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2024
    copyright date: 2024
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xvi, 283 pages) : illustrations, maps.
  abstract: In this richly detailed study, Robert Cioffi explores the signficance of the Nile River Valley as the geographic centre of the ancient Greek novel during the genre's heyday in the Roman empire. He shows how the region is repeatedly portrayed in these fictions as a dual-site of ethnographic representation and of resistance to imperial power.
  table of contents: Introduction: In the Month of Hathor -- Between Representation and Resistance -- Egypt, Ethiopia, and the Greek Novel: A Brief History -- The Famous Five and the Fringe: Greek Novels, World Travelers -- Structure of the Argument -- 1: Religion, Revolt, and Rome in Chariton, Xenophon of Ephesus, and Apuleius
  table of contents: Chariton and Egypt: Chabrias, Alexander, and Chaereas against Persia -- An Ephesian Tale in Egypt -- Isis Saves: Greek Novels, Egyptian Religion -- Apuleius' The Golden Ass and Isis -- Conclusion -- 2: Where the Wild Things Are: Achilles Tatius and Egyptian Animals -- Collecting Animals: A Very Short History of Environment, Ethnography, and Empire -- The Egyptian Menagerie of Leucippe and Clitophon -- Capturing the Hippopotamus: The Ethnographic Gaze and the Dynamics of Description -- Writing the Unmentionable: Ekphrasis, Identity, and the Phoenix in Achilles Tatius
  table of contents: Conclusion: The Phoenix and Achilles Tatius' Egyptian Landscape -- 3: The Lives of Others: The Boukoloi, the Nile Delta, and the Frontiers of Knowledge in Achilles Tatius -- First Encounters: Rebels in the Nile Delta -- Alternative Histories: Boukoloi, Tragedy, and Mime -- Landscapes of Papyrus: The Resistance of the Boukoloi -- The Boukoloi and Their Egyptian Contexts -- Greek Novels and Egyptian Fictions -- Conclusion -- 4: Alexandria and Apocalypse: Representation, Resistance, and Time -- Achilles Tatius: The City and the Crocodile -- The "Acts" of Habrocomes
  table of contents: Apocalypse Then: Heliodorus, the Beach, and the Alexander Romance -- Conclusion -- 5: An Ethiopian Story in Egypt -- Bandits of Isis: Rewriting the Boukoloi -- A Long, Twisting Road: The Labyrinth of the Boukoloi -- Isis and Heliodorus' Egypt -- Calasiris and the New Ethnography: Chemmis and Delphi -- "It is only among the Egyptians . . . ": Ritual and Spectatorship up the Nile -- From Memphis to Syene: Ethnography on the Edge of the Earth -- Conclusion -- 6: The Ends of Ethiopia in Heliodorus' An Ethiopian Story -- Beyond Egypt, beyond Persia, beyond Rome: Moving to Meroë
  table of contents: Ritual Crisis on the Edges of the Earth -- Charicleia's Homecoming: Performance, Mimēsis, and Succession in Ethiopia -- Theagenes, the Giraffe, and the Meroitic Empire -- Theagenes and the World of Sport: Athletics, Culture, and Dénouement -- Closure and Transformation -- Conclusion: The Future of Meroë -- Epilogue: Egypt, Ethiopia, and the Americas-The Greek Novels' Early Modern Readers.
  target audience: Specialized.
  target audience: specialized
  note: Robert Cioffi.
  note: Also issued in print: 2024.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: f-ua---
    geographic code: f-et---
  subject:
    topic: Greek fiction
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    geographic: Egypt
    topic: In literature
  subject:
    geographic: Ethiopia
    topic: In literature
  subject:
    topic: Roman grec
    topic: Histoire et critique
  subject:
    topic: Ancient
  subject:
    topic: HISTORY
  subject:
    topic: LITERARY CRITICISM
  subject:
    topic: Archaeology
  subject:
    topic: SOCIAL SCIENCE
  subject:
    topic: Literature: history & criticism
  subject:
    topic: Literature
  classification: PA3015.E35 C5 2024
  classification: 883.01093232
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    origin info:
      publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2024
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  record info:
    record content source: STBDS
    record creation date: 231208
    record change date: 20260319204332.2
    record identifier: in00005726649
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng