A Companion to the Ancient Novel by Cueva, Edmund P. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover BLACKWELL COMPANIONS TO THE ANCIENT WORLD Title page Copyright page Notes on Contributors Introduction PART I: Novels and Authors

a. Greek

CHAPTER 1: Chariton: Individuality and Stereotype

Plot and Structure The Story Itself Intrigue and Melodrama The Literary Texture The Arts of Recapitulation Humor Historical Flavor Characterization Sexuality Cultural Norms and Ethos Greek and Barbarian Readership Conclusion

CHAPTER 2: Daphnis and Chloe: Innocence and Experience, Archetypes and Art CHAPTER 3: Xenophon, The Ephesian Tales

Plot The author Date Xenophon, Chariton and the beginnings of the novel Transmission, reception and text-history

CHAPTER 4: Achilles Tatius, Sophistic Master of Novelistic Conventions

Introduction The Author The Text Dating Leucippe and Clitophon Trends in Scholarship Novelistic Motifs Scheintod of the heroine Brief Nachleben

CHAPTER 5: Heliodorus, the Ethiopian Story

The Author and His Work The Novel’s Setting Literary Aesthetics and Rhetoric Composition and Narrative Technique

b. Roman

CHAPTER 6: Petronius, Satyrica

The Work: Text and Transmission The Author: Who Was Petronius? The Satyrica: Title, Contents, Structure The Cena Trimalchionis The Inserted Novellas The Poems Models, Sources, Genre

CHAPTER 7: Apuleius’ The Golden Ass: The Nature of the Beast

The Beginning The Author The Plot The Plot Thickens First Impressions Conspiracy Theories

CHAPTER 8: Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri

An Unconventional Opening Apollonius Tarsia The Textual Tradition of Historia Apollonii Dating A Greek Model? Historia Apollonii and the Ancient Novel

c. Related

CHAPTER 9: The Other Greek Novels CHAPTER 10: Hell-bent, Heaven-sent: From Skyman to Pumpkin CHAPTER 11: The Novel and Christian Narrative

PART II: Genre and Approaches

CHAPTER 12: The Genre of the Novel: A Theoretical Approach CHAPTER 13: The Management of Dialogue in Ancient Fiction

Chariton Achilles Tatius Longus Heliodorus Petronius Beyond the Satyrica The Fragments Conclusions

CHAPTER 14: Characterization in the Ancient Novel

Ambiguity Social Control Development Techniques of Characterization Epilogue

CHAPTER 15: Liaisons Dangereuses: Epistolary Novels in Antiquity

Introduction History of Research Epistolary Novels 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 The Apostle Paul Ignatius, Bishop of Antioch Paul and Seneca Aftermath

CHAPTER 16: The Life of Aesop (rec.G): The Composition of the Text

The Tradition of the Text The Structure of the “Life of Aesop” Sequences of the Plot Other Elements of the Text’s Composition The Context of the Work

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

Cultural Mediation Selection of Features and Gender Shifts Philological Perspective Selection of Secondary Characters Mythomania Parody Conclusions

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 Apuleius and Latin Love Elegy The Beginning of the Novel: Lucius and Photis, Socrates and Meroe The End of the Novel: Lucius and the Corinthian matrona—Lucius and Isis Conclusions

CHAPTER 20: Apuleius’ Metamorphoses: A Hybrid Text?

Personal Reflections The State of Play Back to the Text: Further Adventures of Lucius? Crikey, Psyche: More Divine Encounters Dangerous (Literary) Liaisons Storytelling on Screen Mixed Marriages 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 Pirates and Piracy Magnetism of Love

CHAPTER 22: “Respect these Breastsand Pity Me”: Greek Novel and Theater

Theater in Words Romanesque Thread and Theater Plot: the Ideal Novels and New Comedy Theater and Myth Meet in the Novel Theater in the Mind

CHAPTER 23: Poems in Petronius’ Satyrica CHAPTER 24: Various Asses CHAPTER 25: Greek Novel and Greek Archaic Literature CHAPTER 26: Ekphrasis in the Ancient Novel

Ekphrasis in Theory and Practice Readers and Viewers Ekphrasis as Novelistic “Hero”

PART IV: Themes and Topics

CHAPTER 27: Miscellanea Petroniana: A Petronian Enthusiast’s Thoughts and Reviews CHAPTER 28: Love, Myth, and Ritual: The Mythic Dimension and Adolescence in Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe

Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe as Exceptional Test Case Longus’ Myth in Symbolic and Synaesthetic Function Conclusion

CHAPTER 29: Gender in the Ancient Novel

Women and the Greek Novel Sexual Symmetry, Foucault Gender, Chastity, and Christian Novelistic Texts Petronius and Apuleius and the Collapse of Gender Conclusions

CHAPTER 30: Education as Construction of Gender Roles in the Greek Novels

Forever Young Education in the Greek Novel The First Ordeal: Separation Continuing against All Odds: The Liminal Stage A Time for Return: The Incorporation Let’s Make a Man of Him! But What Is a Greek Woman?

CHAPTER 31: Greek Love in the Greek Novel CHAPTER 32: Latin Culture in the Second Century AD

Fronto Fronto’s Letters Fronto’s Moderate Archaism Fronto and Marcus Aurelius Aulus Gellius Apuleius The Speeches Philosophical Works Other Authors

CHAPTER 33: Mimet(h)ic Paideia in Lucian’s True History

Identity and Role-playing Constructions of Paideia and the Pepaideumenos in the Imagines and the Somnium Mimetic Constructions of Paideia and the Pepaideumenos in the True History Conclusion

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 Implications and Difficulties Modern Approaches “Milesian” Platonism

CHAPTER 36: Achilles Tatius and Heliodorus: Between Aristotle and Hitchcock

From Aristotle to Mystery Plots Achilles Tatius: Sudden Death Heliodorus: Sudden Death in a Cave Hitchcock: Sudden Death in the Shower Aristotle Vindicated

CHAPTER 37: Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe: Literary Transmission and Reception

The Re-discovery of the Text in the Renaissance: The “Artistic” Translation From Translation to Emulation Longus and the Pastoral Fashion: A Brief History of a Long Passion How to Green Again a Classic: From Lesbos to a Japanese Island

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