Achilles Tatius
Auteur van De liefdesperikelen van Leukippe en Kleitofon
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Clitophontis & Leucippes amoribus ; libri VIII 3 exemplaren
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- Αχιλλεύς Τάτιος
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- male
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- Alexandria, Egypt
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Leucipe i Clitofont door Aquil·les Taci,
RB-7
A piece of Greco-Roman popular culture: The plot is inevitable, the characters are unnuanced, and the story is filled with unlikely coincidences and loose ends. But the novel is well-paced and it provides priceless glimpses of everyday life in the 2nd century. There is a marvelous description of Alexandria, which makes it sound like the Los Angeles of the eastern Mediterranean. There are also court scenes, pirates in the Nile Delta, shipwrecks on rocky shores, candid debates about sexual practices, and remarkable examples of the role of pagan religion in everyday life.… (meer)
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le.vert.galant | 3 andere besprekingen | Jan 26, 2015 |
le.vert.galant | 3 andere besprekingen | Jan 26, 2015 | Popular erotic adventure romance, thought to have been written during Second Century B.C. A another translation by John J. Winkler is in my library in 'Collected Ancient Greek Novels', ed. B.P.Reardon. Plot Summary and criticism : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leucippe_and_Clitophon
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