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 a...

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.