The romance between Greece and the East

Abstract

1. The romance between Greece and the East Tim Whitmarsh Part I. Egyptians: 2. Greek fiction and Egyptian fiction: are they related, and, if so, how? Ian Rutherford 3. Manetho John Dillery 4. Imitatio Alexandri in Egyptian literary tradition Kim Ryholt 5. Divine anger management: the Greek version of the myth of the sun's eye (P.Lond.Lit. 192) Stephanie West 6. Fictions of cultural authority Susan Stephens Part II. Mesopotamians and Iranians: 7. Berossus Johannes Haubold 8. The Greek novel Ninus and Semiramis: its background in Assyrian and Seleucid history and monuments Stephanie Dalley 9. Ctesias, the Achaemenid court, and the history of the Greek novel Josef Wiesehofer 10. Iskander and the idea of Iran Daniel Selden Part III. Jews and Phoenicians: 11. Josephus' Esther and Diaspora Judaism Emily Kneebone 12. The eastern king in the Hebrew Bible: novelistic motifs in early Jewish literature Jennie Barbour 13. 'Lost in translation'? The Phoenician Journal of Dictys of Crete Karen Ni Mheallaigh 14. Milesiae Punicae: how Punic was Apuleius? Stephen Harrison Part IV. Anatolians: 15. The victory of Greek Ionia in Xenophon's Ephesiaca Aldo Tagliabue 16. Milesian tales Ewen Bowie Part V. Transmission and Reception: 17. Does triviality translate? The Life of Aesop travels east Pavlos Avlamis 18. Mime and the romance Ruth Webb 19. Orality, folktales, and the cross-cultural transmission of narrative Larry Kim 20. History, empire and the novel: Pierre-Daniel Huet and the origins of the romance Phiroze Vasunia.