The Virgin and Her Lover

Fragments of an Ancient Greek Novel and a Persian Epic Poem
Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-90-04-13260-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 30, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 167 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 685 g

Reihe: Brill Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures

Starting from the authors’ discovery that the Persian epic poem Vamiq and 'Adhra by 'Unsuri (11th century AD) derives from the ancient Greek novel of Metiokhos and Parthenope, the book contains critical editions of the Greek and Persian fragments and testimonia, with English translation and comments. The exciting story of the modern recovery of the two texts is told, and the transformations of the productive theme of The ardent lover and the virgin are traced from Greek novel to Persian poem, and through later Persian and Turkish literature. Of particular importance is the authors’ attempt to reconstruct the common plot and individual variations, adding a new work to the limited corpus of ancient novels and shedding new light on the genre of Persian epic poetry.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Utas, Bo

Hägg, Tomas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturen sonstiger Sprachräume Iranische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Griechische & Byzantinische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Rezeption, literarische Einflüsse und Beziehungen

Über Autor(innen)

Tomas Hägg, Fil.dr. (1971) in Greek language and literature, Uppsala University, is Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Bergen. His publications include Narrative Technique in Ancient Greek Romances, Photios als Vermittler antiker Literatur and The Novel in Antiquity.
Bo Utas, Fil.dr. (1973) in Iranian languages, Uppsala University,. He has published on a wide array of subjects within Iranian linguistics, literature and religion including Arabic and Iranian elements in New Persian prosody, Arabic prosody and its applications in Muslim poetry, (Stockholm 1994) and The aesthetic use of New Persian (Edebiyat, 1998).