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Project

Latin to Greek. The Latinity of the Ancient Greek Love Novel
Code
3G0B7516
Looptijd
01-01-2016 → 31-12-2019
Financiering
Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Onderzoeksdisciplines
  • 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
Trefwoorden
karakterisering griekse roman heroisme liefdesliteratuur Latijnse literatuur metaliteratuur Grieks Latijn Oudheid Literatuurwetenschap
 
Projectomschrijving
 

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.