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Project

Latin to Greek. The Latinity of the Ancient Greek Love Novel
Code
3G0B7516
Duration
01 January 2016 → 31 December 2019
Funding
Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Language studies
    • Literary studies
    • Theory and methodology of language studies
    • Theory and methodology of linguistics
    • Theory and methodology of literary studies
    • Other languages and literary studies
Keywords
Greek novel love literature Latin Literature characterization heroism metaliterature Greek Latin Antiquity Literary studies
 
Project description

This project aims at a systematic analysis of the presences (in different forms) of a
number of Latin literary genres in the ancient Greek novel. The driving research hypothesis is that Greek novels to varying degrees and in different ways address, respond to and make creative use of Latin narrative traditions, in order to (a) conceptualize the intertwined notions of love and heroism, and (b) develop metaliterary thoughts about the generic encoding underlying these notions.