The novel in the ancient world / / edited by Gareth Schmeling.

• TeilnehmendeR: Schmeling, Gareth L.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, [Netherlands] : : Brill,, 1996.; ©1996
• Year of Publication: 1996
• Language: English
• Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements 159.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (887 pages) :; illustrations, maps.

This is the second publication in Brill's handbook series The Classical Tradition . The subject of this volume is that group of works of extended prose narrative fiction which bears many similarities to the modern novel and which appeared in the later classical periods in Greece and Rome. The ancient novel has enjoyed renewed popularity in recent years not only among students of literature, but also among those looking for new sources on the popular culture of antiquity and among scholars of religion. The volume surveys the new insights and approaches to the ancient novel which have emerged form the application of a variety of disciplines in the recent years. The 25 senior scholars contributing to the volume are drawn from a broad range of European and North American traditions of scholarship. Chapters cover the important issues dealing with the novel, novelists, novel-like works of fiction, their development, transformation, Christianisation and Nachleben, as well as a broad range of matters, from literary/philological to cultural/historical and religious, which concerns modern scholars in the field. This publication has also been published in paperback, please click here for details.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Gareth Schmeling -- Preface / Gareth Schmeling -- The Genre: Novels Proper and the Fringe / Niklas Holzberg -- The Rise of the Greek Novel / Consuelo Ruiz-Montero -- The Ancient Readers of the Greek Novels / Ewen Bowie -- Popular and Sophisticated in the Ancient Novel / Graham Anderson -- Characterization in the Ancient Novel / Alain Billault -- Mystery Religions, Aretalogy and the Ancient Novel / Roger Beck -- Women in the Ancient Novel / Renate Johne -- A Study on the Margin of the Ancient Novel: “Barbarians” and Others / Heinrich Kuch -- The Social and Economic Structures of the Ancient Novels / Antonio M. Scarcella -- Modern Critical Theories and the Ancient Novel / Massimo Fusillo -- Major Authors: Greek and Roman / B.P. Reardon , Bernhard Kytzler , Richard Hunter , Karl Plepelits , J.R. Morgan , Gareth Schmeling , S.J. Harrison and Gareth Schmeling -- Novel-like Works of Extended Prose Fiction I / Graham Anderson , Stefan Merkle , Bodil Due and Richard Stoneman -- Novel-like Works ef Extended Prose Fiction II / Gareth Schmeling -- Fragments of Lost Novels / Susan Stephens -- The Ancient Novel Becomes Christian / Richard Pexvo -- The Byzantine Revival of the Ancient Novel / Roderick Beaton -- The Heritage of the Ancient Greek Novel in France and Britain / Gerald Sandy -- The Nachleben of the Ancient Novel in Iberian Literature in the Sixteenth Century / M. Futre Pinheiro -- Maps (A-L) / Jean Alvares -- Bibliography / Gareth Schmeling -- Index / Gareth Schmeling -- Supplements to Mnemosyne.