The Ancient Romances
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The Ancient Romances

A Literary-Historical Account of Their Origins

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eBook - ePub

The Ancient Romances

A Literary-Historical Account of Their Origins

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents 10
  5. Abbreviations
  6. PART ONE The Ideal Greek Romance of Love and Adventure
  7. I Greek Romance and the Problem of Forms and Origins
  8. II The Form Romance in Historical Perspective
  9. III Chariton and the Nature of Greek Romance
  10. IV The Birth of the Ideal Greek Romance
  11. PART TWO The Comic Romances
  12. V Petronius and His Satyricon
  13. VI Lucian’s Metamorphoses
  14. VII Apuleius and His Metamorphoses
  15. APPENDIX I The Pseudo Clementine Romance
  16. APPENDIX II The Latin Romance Apollonius of Tyre
  17. APPENDIX III The Ego-Narrative in Comic Stories
  18. NOTES TO CHAPTER I
  19. Bibliography of Useful Reference
  20. Analytical Table of Contents
  21. Index