Parodies of Paideia : prose fiction and high learning in the Roman empire
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation analyzes three works of ancient prose fiction, the Life of Aesop, the Story of Apollonius of Tyre, and the Alexander Romance, in order to determine whether prose fiction was a "popular" literary genre in antiquity and to illuminate how prose fiction engaged the "elite" authors of the classical canon. Investigating literacy rates, the economics of book production, and access to education in the Roman Empire, I argue against the existence of any popular literary texts in Imperial period and introduce a new paradigm of authorized and unauthorized cultures that derive their status from institutionalized cultural capital. Furthermore, I demonstrate that the "unauthorized" fictions of Aesop, Apollonius, and Alexander had a close and confrontational relationship with the "authorized" literature of the canon, especially the Greek and Latin authors at the center of the school curriculum. While classical scholarship often addresses how the most elite writers of the Greco-Roman world interpreted the classical tradition, this research reveals how similar negotiations with the canon took place in aspiring intellectual communities.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2015 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Arthur-Montagne, Jacqueline Michelle |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Classics. |
| Primary advisor | Krebs, Christopher B |
| Primary advisor | Stephens, Susan A |
| Thesis advisor | Krebs, Christopher B |
| Thesis advisor | Stephens, Susan A |
| Thesis advisor | Gleason, Maud W, 1954- |
| Thesis advisor | Parker, Grant Richard, 1967- |
| Advisor | Gleason, Maud W, 1954- |
| Advisor | Parker, Grant Richard, 1967- |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Jacqueline Michelle Arthur-Montagne. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Classics. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2015. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2015 by Jacqueline Michelle Arthur - Montagne
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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