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 | Law and Justice in the Greek Novel | 2016 From Bedroom to Courtroom argues that the fictional trial scenes in the Greek ideal romances reflect Roman legal institutions and ideas, particularly relating to family and sexuality. |
 | Stelios Panayotakis, Gareth Schmeling, and Michael Paschalis (Eds.) |2015 The present volume comprises the papers delivered at RICAN 6, which was held in Rethymnon, Crete, on May 30-31, 2011. The focus is placed on male and female characters in the ancient novel and related texts, both pagan and Christian; these characters… |
 | Marília P. Futre Pinheiro & Silvia Montiglio (eds.) |2015 The papers assembled in this volume explore a relatively new area in scholarship on the ancient novel: the relationship between an ostensibly non-philosophical genre and philosophy. This approach opens up several original themes for further research and debate. |
 | Marília P. Futre Pinheiro, Gareth Schmeling & Edmund P. Cueva |2014 Despite the fact that postmodern aesthetics deny the existence or validity of genres, the tendency nowadays is to assume that there was in Antiquity a homogeneous group of works of narrative prose fiction that, despite their differences, displayed a series… |
 | Marília P. Futre Pinheiro, Judith Perkins & Richard Pervo (eds.) |2013 This innovative collection explores the vital role played by fictional narratives in Christian and Jewish self-fashioning in the early Roman imperial period. Employing a diversity of approaches, including cultural studies, feminist, philological, and narratological, expert scholars from six countries offer… |