Romancing Rhetoric. The Reception of the Ancient Greek Novel in the Late Antique Rhetorical Schools of the Eastern Mediterranean Ghent University
This project aims to improve our understanding of the early reception of the ancient Greek novels (written between the 1st and 4th cent. AD) by investigating for the first time their influence on late antique rhetorical writing (4th-6th cent.): theory, declamations, orations, exercises, descriptions, and letters written in Greek by the foremost rhetoricians of the era in the famous schools of Athens, Antioch, and Gaza. So far, points of ...