The Virgin and Her Lover: Fragments of an Ancient Greek by Bo Utas, Tomas Hagg

By Bo Utas, Tomas Hagg

Ranging from the author's discovery that the Persian epic poem Vamiq and Adhra via Unsuri (11th century advert) derives from the traditional Greek novel of "Metiokhos and Parthenope", this paintings comprises severe variants of the Greek and Persian fragments and testimonia, with reviews.

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Ruzena Dostálová, in her Il romanzo greco e i papiri (1991), likewise made use of the identification of M&P with V&'A in her interpretation of the fragments and reconstruction of the plot (Dostálová 1991:35–41); but her booklet offered no new text or translation. The generous format of Stephens & Winkler (1995) includes both a critical edition of the text of the fragments (though it is not stated to what extent it rests on new readings of the papyri), a facing English translation, commentary, and a literary analysis.

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Furthermore, Shafi turns our attention to a short but elucidating recapitulation of the story of V&'A found in a Persian work called Dàràb-nàmah ascribed to a certain Abù ˇàhir ˇarsùsì30 and possibly written already in the twelfth century AD. This is a collection of legendary narratives concerning the last Akhaemenid emperor Darius III and his alleged half-brother Alexander the Great (see further below, pp. 144–149). Following Tarbiyat, Shafi also lists the various epics in Persian, Turkish and Kashmiri known under the title of V&'A and describes the contents of seven of them in detail.

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