THE ANCIENT ROMANCES; A Literary-Historical Account of Their Origins

Minor shelfwear. 1 corner bumped with faint crease through some pages. Dustjacket has chipping and sopme tears. Minor browning to DJ. DJ is price-clipped.; Deals with questions relating to the nature and origin of the ancient novels. It also proposes a new and positive theory of what constitutes a literary form generally and how such forms normally arise. Part I considers the serious or ideal Greek romance as a type of literature produced in quantity in response to a continuous popular demand. Part II explains the origin and rationale of the comic romances of Petronius, Lucian, and Apuleius, each in a different manner with respect to the author's purpose, his intellectual outlook, and the circumstances that impelled him to write his book.; Sather Classical Lectures; 407 pages.