Decoding the Ancient Novel: The Reader and the Role of Description in Heliodorus and Achilles Tatius
(Paperback)
By: Shadi Bartsch
ISBN: 9780691606910
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
See more...
Using a reader-oriented approach, Shadi Bartsch reconsiders the role of detailed descriptive accounts in the ancient Greek novels of Heliodorus and Achilles Tatius and in so doing offers a new view of the genre itself. Bartsch demonstrates that these passages, often misunderstood as mere ornamental devices, form in fact an integral part of the narr
Decoding the Ancient Novel: The Reader and the Role of Description in Heliodorus and Achilles Tatius
(Hardback)
By: Shadi Bartsch
ISBN: 9780691635606
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
See more...
(Paperback)
By: Shadi Bartsch
ISBN: 9780691229607
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2025
Publisher: Princeton University Press
See more...
(Hardback)
By: Shadi Bartsch
ISBN: 9780691229591
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2023
Publisher: Princeton University Press
See more...
(Paperback, Main)
By: Shadi Bartsch
ISBN: 9781788162685
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
UK Publication Date: 1st September 2022
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
See more...
A fresh translation of Vergil's Aeneid by a renowned classicist and scholar of Latin literature.
