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xii, 407 pages 24 cm "Bibliography of useful reference": pages 379-385 Part I: The ideal Greek romance of love and adventure -- Greek romance and the problem of forms and origins -- The form romance in historical perspective -- Chariton and the nature of Greek romance -- The birth of the ideal Greek romance -- Part II: Comic or burlesque romances -- Petronius and is Satyricon -- Lucian's Metamorphoses -- Apuleius and his Metamorphoses
- Author
- B. E. Perry
- Publisher
- Berkeley, University of California Press
- Published
- 1967
- Language
- EN
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities
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