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Haunted Greece and Rome: Ghost Stories from Classical Antiquity - Softcover

Felton, Debbie

 
9780292725089: Haunted Greece and Rome: Ghost Stories from Classical Antiquity
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0292725086 ISBN 13: 9780292725089
Verlag: University of Texas Press, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

Stories of ghostly spirits who return to this world to warn of danger, to prophesy, to take revenge, to request proper burial, or to comfort the living fascinated people in ancient times just as they do today. In this innovative, interdisciplinary study, the author combines a modern folkloric perspective with literary analysis of ghost stories from classical antiquity to shed new light on the stories' folk roots. The author begins by examining ancient Greek and Roman beliefs about death and the departed and the various kinds of ghost stories which arose from these beliefs. She then focuses on the longer stories of Plautus, Pliny, and Lucian, which concern haunted houses. Her analysis illuminates the oral and literary transmission and adaptation of folkloric motifs and the development of the ghost story as a literary form. In her concluding chapter, the author also traces the influence of ancient ghost stories on modern ghost story writers, a topic that will interest all readers and scholars of tales of hauntings.

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D. Felton is Professor of Classics at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

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Verlag
University of Texas Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1999
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0292725086
ISBN 13 
9780292725089
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
170
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