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Roberto Morales-Harley

Published On

2024-08-29

Page Range

pp. 41–78

Language

  • English

Print Length

38 pages

2. The Embassy

A “Potifar’s Wife” Story

Chapter of: The Embassy, the Ambush, and the Ogre: Greco-Roman Influence in Sanskrit Theater (pp. 41–78)

Chapter 2 focuses on Iliad 9, Euripides’ Phoenix, Mahābhārata 5, and (Ps.-)Bhāsa’s The Embassy. For the embassy motif, six parallel adaptation techniques are identified, and a Greco-Roman influence is proposed for the uses of ekphrasis and it-fiction.

Contributors

Roberto Morales-Harley

(author)
Associate Professor of Sanskrit and Head of the Department of Classical Philology at Universidad de Costa Rica
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4752-8588

Roberto Morales-Harley holds a doctorate in Humanities from the University of Malaga, a master’s degrees in Languages of the Ancient World from the University of Murcia and in Classical Literature from the University of Costa Rica, as well as licenciate and bachelor’s degrees in Classical Philology from the University of Costa Rica. He has studied Sanskrit at the Universities of Costa Rica, Murcia, and the Australian National University. He is currently Associate Professor of Sanskrit and Head of the Department of Classical Philology at the University of Costa Rica.