A Companion to the Ancient Novel

Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

A Companion to the Ancient Novel

Editor(s): Edmund P. Cueva, Shannon N. Byrne

Published Online: 7 FEB 2014 09:34PM EST

Print ISBN: 9781444336023

Online ISBN: 9781118350416

DOI: 10.1002/9781118350416

About this Book

This companion addresses a topic of continuing contemporary relevance, both cultural and literary.

  • Offers both a wide-ranging exploration of the classical novel of antiquity and a wealth of close literary analysis
  • Brings together the most up-to-date international scholarship on the ancient novel, including fresh new academic voices
  • Includes focused chapters on individual classical authors, such as Petronius, Xenophon and Apuleius, as well as a wide-ranging thematic analysis
  • Addresses perplexing questions concerning authorial expression and readership of the ancient novel form
  • Provides an accomplished introduction to a genre with a rising profile

Table of contents

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      Front Matter (pages i–xiii)

    1. Chapter none

      Introduction (pages 1–10)

      Edmund P. Cueva and Shannon N. Byrne

  3. Part I: Novels and Authors - a. Greek

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      Chapter 1

      Chariton (pages 11–25)

      Graham Anderson

    1. Chapter 2

      Daphnis and Chloe (pages 26–42)

      Jean Alvares

    1. Chapter 3

      Xenophon, The Ephesian Tales (pages 43–61)

      James N. O'Sullivan

    1. Chapter 4

      Achilles Tatius, Sophistic Master of Novelistic Conventions (pages 62–75)

      Kathryn S. Chew

    1. Chapter 5

      Heliodorus, the Ethiopian Story (pages 76–94)

      Marília P. Futre Pinheiro

  8. b. Roman

    1. Chapter 6

      Petronius, Satyrica (pages 95–118)

      Heinz Hofmann

    1. Chapter 7

      Apuleius' The Golden Ass (pages 119–132)

      Paula James

    1. Chapter 8

      Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri (pages 133–145)

      Giovanni Garbugino

  11. c. Related

    1. Chapter 9

      The Other Greek Novels (pages 146–158)

      Susan Stephens

    1. Chapter 10

      Hell-Bent, Heaven-Sent (pages 159–179)

      Barry Baldwin

    1. Chapter 11

      The Novel and Christian Narrative (pages 180–197)

      David Konstan and Ilaria Ramelli

  14. Part II: Genre and Approaches

    1. Chapter 12

      The Genre of the Novel (pages 199–216)

      Marília P. Futre Pinheiro

    1. Chapter 13

      The Management of Dialogue in Ancient Fiction (pages 217–230)

      Graham Anderson

    1. Chapter 14

      Characterization in the Ancient Novel (pages 231–243)

      Koen De Temmerman

    1. Chapter 15

      Liaisons Dangereuses (pages 244–256)

      Timo Glaser

    1. Chapter 16

      The Life of Aesop (rec.G) (pages 257–271)

      Consuelo Ruiz-Montero

  19. Part III: Influences and Intertextuality

    1. Chapter 17

      Reception of Strangers in Apuleius' Metamorphoses (pages 273–287)

      Stavros Frangoulidis

    1. Chapter 18

      From the Epic to The Novelistic Hero (pages 288–299)

      Luca Graverini

    1. Chapter 19

      Roman Elegy and the Roman Novel (pages 300–316)

      Judith P. Hallett and Judith Hindermann

    1. Chapter 20

      Apuleius' Metamorphoses (pages 317–329)

      Paula James

    1. Chapter 21

      The Magnetic Stone of Love (pages 330–351)

      Françoise Létoublon

    1. Chapter 22

      “Respect These Breastsand Pity Me” (pages 352–370)

      Françoise Létoublon and Marco Genre

    1. Chapter 23

      Poems in Petronius’ Satyrica (pages 371–383)

      Aldo Setaioli

    1. Chapter 24

      Various Asses (pages 384–399)

      Niall W. Slater

    1. Chapter 25

      Greek Novel and Greek Archaic Literature (pages 400–410)

      Giuseppe Zanetto

    1. Chapter 26

      Ekphrasis in the Ancient Novel (pages 411–423)

      Angela Holzmeister

  29. Part IV: Themes and Topics

    1. Chapter 27

      Miscellanea Petroniana (pages 425–440)

      Barry Baldwin

    1. Chapter 28

      Love, Myth, and Ritual (pages 441–455)

      Anton Bierl

    1. Chapter 29

      Gender in the Ancient Novel (pages 456–472)

      Ellen D. Finkelpearl

    1. Chapter 30

      Education as Construction of Gender Roles in the Greek Novels (pages 473–489)

      Sophie Lalanne

    1. Chapter 31

      Greek Love in the Greek Novel (pages 490–501)

      John F. Makowski

    1. Chapter 32

      Latin Culture in the Second Century AD (pages 502–521)

      Claudio Moreschini

    1. Chapter 33

      Mimet(h)ic Paideia in Lucian's True History (pages 522–534)

      Peter von Möllendorff

    1. Chapter 34

      Reimagining Community in Christian Fictions (pages 535–551)

      Judith Perkins

    1. Chapter 35

      The Poetics of Old Wives’ Tales, or Apuleius and the Philosophical Novel (pages 552–569)

      Stefan Tilg

    1. Chapter 36

      Achilles Tatius and Heliodorus (pages 570–583)

      Martin M. Winkler

    1. Chapter 37

      Longus' Daphnis and Chloe (pages 584–597)

      Maria Pia Pattoni

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      Index (pages 598–612)

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