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Author:   Robert Cioffi (Assistant Professor of Classics, Assistant Professor of Classics, Bard College)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.001kg
ISBN:  

9780192870537

ISBN 10:   019287053
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   07 March 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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List of Figures Note on titles, transliterations, and translations Abbreviations Maps Introduction: In the Month of Hathor 1: Religion, Revolt, and Rome in Chariton, Xenophon of Ephesus, and Apuleius 2: Where the Wild Things Are: Achilles Tatius and Egyptian Animals 3: The Lives of Others: The Boukoloi, the Nile Delta, and the Frontiers of Knowledge in Achilles Tatius 4: Alexandria and Apocalypse: Representation, Resistance, and Time 5: An Ethiopian Story in Egypt 6: The Ends of Ethiopia in Heliodorus' An Ethiopian Story Epilogue. Egypt, Ethiopia, and the Americas: The Greek Novels' Early Modern Readers Bibliography Index

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Robert Cioffi is Assistant Professor of Classics at Bard College. His research centres on Greek literature, the history of the novel, Greek and Egyptian cultural interactions, and papyrology. He received a BA and PhD from Harvard University, and an MSt from the University of Oxford. In addition to his scholarly publications, he is a contributor to the London Review of Books and has written for the New York Times Book Review.

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