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Description

1. ix, 244 pages; 25 cm.

Summary

1. "This volume offers the first comprehensive treatment of how five the 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 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"--

Series statement

1. Routledge monographs in classical studies

Uniform title

1. Routledge monographs in classical studies.

Subject

1. Greek prose literature > History and criticism
2. Slavery in literature
3. Greek prose literature
4. Slavery
5. Greece
6. Rome (Empire)

Genre/Form

1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Contents

1. Introduction: Degradation and Resistance -- Ephesiaca: Enslavement and Folktale -- Callirhoe: Narratives of Slavery Explicit and Implied, Told and Retold -- Two Novels About Slavery -- Daphnis and Chloe: Slavery as Nature and Art -- Slavery and Literary Play in Leucippe and Clitophon -- Aethiopica: Love and Slavery, Philosophy and the Novel -- Afterword: Conclusions Summarized and Two Points of Speculation

Call number

1. JFE 20-5130

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-238) and index.

Author

1. Owens, William M., author.

Title

1. The representation of slavery in the Greek novel : resistance and appropriation / William M. Owens.

Publisher

1. London ; New York : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2020.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. Routledge monographs in classical studies
2. Routledge monographs in classical studies.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-238) and index.

Other form:

1. Online version: Owens, William M. The representation of slavery in the greek novel London ; New York : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2020 9780429328558 (DLC) 2019036083

LCCN

1. 2019036082

ISBN

1. 9780367348755 (hardback)
2. 0367348756
3. 9780429328558 (ebook)

Research call number

1. JFE 20-5130