Ethics and Human Values of Ancient Literature

The crucial task of this book has been to lay the theoretical foundations for new reading approaches to the ancient novels across world literature. New strategies are used for integrating the study of the ancient novels with the literature of slavery. This book has focused much more on the cultural aspects of reception rather than the idiosyncratic ones, and thus it has prioritized the exploration of the literary milieu of Roman Africa and the East and our own position as readers of ancient texts who have inherited the legacy of American slavery.

As readers of the ancient novel and products of the Anglo-American cultural experience, we are in multiple dialogs with the past when we approach these texts. Though their word may be garbled, the dead are speaking whether we listen or not.

A new full, revised version as an additional analysis for the study of ancient history and marginalization.