{"product_id":"sale-achilles","title":"SALE Achilles Tatius: Leucippe and Clitophon","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis book is unused and unread. It has some cosmetic imperfections such as scuffing and creasing. It is also stamped 'damaged'.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis book cannot be discounted further.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Greek Novels have moved from the margins to the centre-stage over recent decades, not just because of their literary qualities and thrilling narratives, but also because they offer revealing insights into the culture of the Greek world of the Roman Empire: sexual mores, the position of women and men, identity, religion. Achilles Tatius' Leucippe and Clitophon, the most influential of the novels in antiquity, remains the favourite of many. With its freewheeling plotline, its setting on the edge of the Greek world (in modern Lebanon), its ironic play with the reader's expectations and its sallies into obscenity, it represents a new, mature, sophisticated stage in the development of the novel as a genre. This is the first commentary in English on Achilles for over 50 years, a period that has seen great strides forward in the understanding of the literary, linguistic and textual interpretation of this brilliant text.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHelps students understand the late, sometimes colloquial Greek of the novel\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExplains and illustrates Achilles' different stylistic techniques and registers, his use of allusion and the interconnectedness of the novel as a whole\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eClarifies the different gender, sexual, cultural etc. politics of an ancient novel for a student readership highly attuned to these issues\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56394064200066,"sku":"9781316640593","price":14.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0475\/2031\/7597\/files\/9781316640593i_3911535c-78f0-48c9-97d6-93e577054cfa.jpg?v=1771512997","url":"https:\/\/www.cambridgebookshop.co.uk\/products\/sale-achilles","provider":"Cambridge University Press Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}