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| Preface | ||
| Introduction | 1 | |
| 1 | A Response to Uncertainty | 19 |
| Russian roulette | 23 | |
| A conjunction of hope, despair and revelation | 33 | |
| A conjunction of love, despair and death | 43 | |
| 2 | Cultural Meanings Subjected to Reflection | 53 |
| Dignity and despair | 54 | |
| 'Since there exists a certain measure of doubt...' | 70 | |
| 3 | The Novel, The Dream and 'Suicide' in the Interim Period | 84 |
| Brides and grooms of death | 88 | |
| Revelatory passages | 97 | |
| To Leukippe and Kleitophon: a son | 108 | |
| 4 | The Byzantine Revival | 115 |
| The act as object of variance | 120 | |
| The meaning of the act reformulated | 126 | |
| The act as illusion | 140 | |
| 5 | The Revival in Context | 153 |
| Rhetoric and performance | 155 | |
| Ideological tensions | 156 | |
| The alien speech of Aristotle | 158 | |
| The alien speech of the novel | 161 | |
| Appendix | Synopses of novels highlighting dreams and suicides | 165 |
| Chariton's Chaireas and Kallirhoe | 165 | |
| Xenophon of Ephesos' Ephesiaka | 168 | |
| Achilles Tatius' Leukippe and Kleitophon | 170 | |
| Longus' Daphnis and Chloe | 172 | |
| Heliodoros' Aithiopika | 174 | |
| Makrembolites' Hsymine and Hysminias | 179 | |
| Prodromos' Rhodanthe and Dosikles | 183 | |
| Eugenianos' Drosilla and Charikles | 186 | |
| Notes | 190 | |
| Bibliography | 215 | |
| Index of passages from early and Byzantine novels | 225 | |
| General index | 228 |
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $99.99 | Digital |
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Michael Weaver
reviewed Dreams and Suicides on January 01, 2015
Dreams and Suicides
Great book to read as a companion to either Homeric Epics, but especially the Odyssey. A bit on the technical side throughout, but not overwhelmingly or off puttingly so.
The topics discussed range from archeology, the changes in ship design in the bronze and archaic ages, etymology, geography and ethnography. Peppered throughout are summations of existing scholarly opinions in these fields and the author does a good job of addressing them in an even handed fashion.
A very good read!
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