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Roberto Morales-HarleyPublished On
2024-08-29Page Range
pp. 41–78Language
- 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
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.