Essays on the Greek Romances
Essays on the Greek Romances

Essays on the Greek Romances

Essays on the Greek RomancesIf all the world loves a lover, as the old proverb says, then...
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Author: Haight, Elizabeth Hazelton,1872-1964
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Essays on the Greek Romances

Essays on the Greek Romances

$15.27
Essays on the Greek Romances

Essays on the Greek Romances

$15.27
Author: Haight, Elizabeth Hazelton,1872-1964
Format: eBook
Language: English
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Essays on the Greek Romances

If all the world loves a lover, as the old proverb says, then this my book should win wide fame. For these Greek Romances of the first to the fourth century of our era seem still to be singing the immemorial refrain from the old spring-time song of The Vigil of Venus: At a time when fiction is the most popular form of literature, these wonderful old Greek stories of love, adventure and worship are half forgotten and rarely read except by the scholar. Yet here, as in epic, lyric, elegy, drama, oratory and history, the Greeks were pioneers. In the second and third centuries they had created four different types of romance (of love, of adventure, the pastoral, the satiric) which were to have great influence on French, Italian and English fiction. The student of comparative literature, the student of the history of fiction cannot afford to neglect these pioneer Greek novels. Their appeal, however, should be just as great for the general reader as for the scholar. For here are stories that mirror the life of the Mediterranean world in the Roman Empire with all its new excitements of travel, piracy, kidnapping, the new feminism, the new religious cults. And through all the different types of romance except viii the satiric the Love-God holds supreme sway over the hearts of men. So human, so vivacious are the love-stories that I offer to my readers Longus assurance of profit in his introduction to his Pastoral Romance: ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 47022
Author: Haight, Elizabeth Hazelton
Release Date: Oct 2, 2014
Format: eBook
Language: English

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