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Titre: Alciphron. Aelian. Philostratus Condition: Neuf EAN: 9780674994218 ISBN: 9780674994218 Publisher: Harvard University Press Format: Relié Date de publication: 1949-01-01 Item Height: 162 Item Length: 108.00 Poids: 372g Sujet: Anglais Sous titres: The Letters ISBN-10: 0674994213 Description: Epistolary fictions.
The Letters of Alciphron (second century AD) constitute one of the most attractive products of the Second Sophistic. They are fictitious compositions based on an astonishingly wide variety of circumstances, though the theme of erotic love is constantly sounded. The imagination shown by the author and his convincing realism win him a place of distinction in the early development of romantic prose. The letters, which are highly literary, owing much to the New Comedy of Menander, purport to give us a sketch of the social life of Athens in the fourth century BC. The collection is arranged in four divisions: Letters of Fishermen; Farmers; Parasites; Courtesans. Senders and addressees are mostly invented characters, but in the last section Alciphron presents us with several attempts at historical fiction, the most engaging being an exchange of letters between Menander and Glycera.
This volume also includes twenty Letters of Farmers ascribed to Aelian (ca. AD 170–235) and a collection of seventy-three Erotic Epistles of Philostratus (probably Flavius of that name, also born ca. AD 170). In style and subject matter these resemble those of Alciphron, by whom they may have been influenced. Pays/Région de fabrication: US Traducteur: A. R. Benner, F. H. Fobes Contributeur: A. R. Benner (Translated by), F. H. Fobes (Translated by) Genre: Literary Criticism Série: Loeb Classical Library Sujet: Biography Auteur: Alciphron, Aelian, Philostratus Item Width: 30.00 Année de publication: 1949 Information manquante?
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