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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. Felton begins by examining ancient Greek and Roman beliefs about death and the departed and the various kinds of ghost stories that 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.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Literature: history & criticism Literary studies: general

• Full title: Haunted Greece and Rome
• Subtitle: Ghost Stories from Classical Antiquity
• Author: D. Felton
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 168
• EAN: 9780292725089
• ISBN: 0292725086
• ID: 04873148
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Weight: 276 g
• Dimensions: 231 × 152 × 10 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. January 1999

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