Contents
CHAPTER 1: Chariton: Individuality and Stereotype
CHAPTER 2: Daphnis and Chloe: Innocence and Experience, Archetypes and Art
CHAPTER 3: Xenophon, The Ephesian Tales
Xenophon, Chariton and the beginnings of the novel
Transmission, reception and text-history
CHAPTER 4: Achilles Tatius, Sophistic Master of Novelistic Conventions
CHAPTER 5: Heliodorus, the Ethiopian Story
Literary Aesthetics and Rhetoric
Composition and Narrative Technique
CHAPTER 6: Petronius, Satyrica
The Work: Text and Transmission
The Author: Who Was Petronius?
The Satyrica: Title, Contents, Structure
CHAPTER 7: Apuleius’ The Golden Ass: The Nature of the Beast
CHAPTER 8: Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri
The Textual Tradition of Historia Apollonii
Historia Apollonii and the Ancient Novel
CHAPTER 9: The Other Greek Novels
CHAPTER 10: Hell-bent, Heaven-sent: From Skyman to Pumpkin
CHAPTER 11: The Novel and Christian Narrative
CHAPTER 12: The Genre of the Novel: A Theoretical Approach
CHAPTER 13: The Management of Dialogue in Ancient Fiction
CHAPTER 14: Characterization in the Ancient Novel
Techniques of Characterization
CHAPTER 15: Liaisons Dangereuses: Epistolary Novels in Antiquity
The Letters of Chion: An Open-Ending, Coming-of-Age Novel
The Letters of Euripides: A Counter-story without a Story
The Reception of the Ancient Epistolary Novel in Christianity
CHAPTER 16: The Life of Aesop (rec.G): The Composition of the Text
The Structure of the “Life of Aesop”
Other Elements of the Text’s Composition
PART III: Influences and Intertextuality
CHAPTER 17: Reception of Strangers in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses: The Examples of Hypata and Cenchreae
CHAPTER 18: From the Epic to the Novelistic Hero: Some Patterns of a Metamorphosis
Selection of Features and Gender Shifts
Selection of Secondary Characters
CHAPTER 19: Roman Elegy and the Roman Novel
Petronius and Latin Love Elegy: Critiques of Latin Love Elegy in Earlier Satire and Invective
Satyricon 16–26: Propertius 4.8 and the Quartilla Episode
Encolpius’ Impotence in Satyricon 126ff. and Ovid, Amores 3.7
The Beginning of the Novel: Lucius and Photis, Socrates and Meroe
The End of the Novel: Lucius and the Corinthian matrona—Lucius and Isis
CHAPTER 20: Apuleius’ Metamorphoses: A Hybrid Text?
Back to the Text: Further Adventures of Lucius?
Crikey, Psyche: More Divine Encounters
Hybrid Forms—the Metamorphoses as a Literary Mule
CHAPTER 21: The Magnetic Stone of Love: Greek Novel and Poetry
Eros as Central Theme of the Inserted Tales and of Reflexivity
Eros in Generic Evolution, or the Novel as an Echo Chamber for Literature
CHAPTER 22: “Respect these Breastsand Pity Me”: Greek Novel and Theater
Romanesque Thread and Theater Plot: the Ideal Novels and New Comedy
Theater and Myth Meet in the Novel
CHAPTER 23: Poems in Petronius’ Satyrica
CHAPTER 25: Greek Novel and Greek Archaic Literature
CHAPTER 26: Ekphrasis in the Ancient Novel
Ekphrasis in Theory and Practice
Ekphrasis as Novelistic “Hero”
CHAPTER 27: Miscellanea Petroniana: A Petronian Enthusiast’s Thoughts and Reviews
Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe as Exceptional Test Case
Longus’ Myth in Symbolic and Synaesthetic Function
CHAPTER 29: Gender in the Ancient Novel
Gender, Chastity, and Christian Novelistic Texts
Petronius and Apuleius and the Collapse of Gender
CHAPTER 30: Education as Construction of Gender Roles in the Greek Novels
Continuing against All Odds: The Liminal Stage
A Time for Return: The Incorporation
CHAPTER 31: Greek Love in the Greek Novel
CHAPTER 32: Latin Culture in the Second Century AD
CHAPTER 33: Mimet(h)ic Paideia in Lucian’s True History
Constructions of Paideia and the Pepaideumenos in the Imagines and the Somnium
Mimetic Constructions of Paideia and the Pepaideumenos in the True History
CHAPTER 34: Reimagining Community in Christian Fictions
CHAPTER 35: The Poetics of Old Wives’ Tales, or Apuleius and the Philosophical Novel
Introduction: The Narrative Situation
CHAPTER 36: Achilles Tatius and Heliodorus: Between Aristotle and Hitchcock
From Aristotle to Mystery Plots
Heliodorus: Sudden Death in a Cave
Hitchcock: Sudden Death in the Shower
CHAPTER 37: Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe: Literary Transmission and Reception
The Re-discovery of the Text in the Renaissance: The “Artistic” Translation
Longus and the Pastoral Fashion: A Brief History of a Long Passion
How to Green Again a Classic: From Lesbos to a Japanese Island