The ancient novel and beyond / / edited by Stelios Panayotakis, Maaike Zimmerman, Wytse Keulen.

• Superior document: Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava, 241
• TeilnehmendeR: Panayotakis, Stelios, 1968-; Zimmerman, M.; Keulen, Wytse Hette.
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 241.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (519 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This volume comprises the revised versions of selected papers read at the International Conference on the Ancient Novel (Groningen, July 2000). The papers cover a wide range of scholarly issues that were prominent in the programme of the conference, and feature the most recent approaches to research on the ancient novel. The essays combine judicious use of literary theory with traditional scholarship, and examine the ancient novels and related texts, such as Oriental tales and Christian narrative, both in their larger, literary, cultural and social context, and as sources of inspiration for Byzantine and modern fiction. This book is important not only for classicists and literary historians, but also for a general public of those interested in narrative fiction.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Stelios Panayotakis , Maaike Zimmerman and Wytse Keulen -- ALEXANDER THE GREAT IN THE ARABIC TRADITION / Richard Stoneman -- ‘THE LAST DAYS OF ALEXANDER’ IN AN ARABIC POPULAR ROMANCE OF AL-ISKANDAR / Faustina Doufikar-Aerts -- LUCIUS AND AESOP GAIN A VOICE: APULEIUS MET. 11.1-2 AND VITA AESOPI 7 / Ellen Finkelpearl -- THE GRAND VIZIER, THE PROPHET, AND THE SATIRIST. TRANSFORMATIONS OF THE ORIENTAL AHIQAR ROMANCE IN ANCIENT PROSE FICTION / Marko Marinčič -- LIVING PORTRAITS AND SCULPTED BODIES IN CHARITON’S THEATER OF ROMANCE / Froma I. Zeitlin -- SPECTATOR AND SPECTACLE IN APULEIUS / Niall W. Slater -- PLATO’S DREAM: PHILOSOPHY AND FICTION IN THE THEAETETUS / Kathryn Morgan -- FICTION AS A DISCOURSE OF PHILOSOPHY IN LUCIAN’S VERAE HISTORIAE / Andrew Laird -- THE REPRESENTATION OF VIOLENCE IN THE GREEK NOVELS AND MARTYR ACCOUNTS / Kathryn Chew -- THREE DEATH SCENES IN APOLLONIUS OF TYRE / Stelios Panayotakis -- SWORDPLAY-WORDPLAY: PHRASEOLOGY OF FICTION IN APULEIUS’ METAMORPHOSES / Wytse Keulen -- NYMPHS, NEIGHBOURS AND NARRATORS: A NARRATOLOGICAL APPROACH TO LONGUS / John Morgan -- READING FOR PLEASURE: NARRATIVE, IRONY, AND EROTICS IN ACHILLES TATIUS / Tim Whitmarsh -- THE WINGED ASS. INTERTEXTUALITY AND NARRATION IN APULEIUS’ METAMORPHOSES / Luca Graverini -- TLEPOLEMUS THE SPECTRAL SPOUSE / Donald Lateiner -- EPIC EXTREMITIES: THE OPENINGS AND CLOSURES OF BOOKS IN APULEIUS’ METAMORPHOSES / Stephen Harrison -- IN MEDIIS REBUS: BEGINNING AGAIN IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ANCIENT NOVEL / Stephen Nimis -- LA LETTRE DANS LE ROMAN GREC OU LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES / Françoise Létoublon -- THE ROLE OF INSCRIPTIONS IN GRECO-ROMAN NOVELS / Erkki Sironen -- STRATEGIES OF AUTHENTICATION IN ANCIENT POPULAR LITERATURE / William Hansen -- ARCHAIC IAMBOS AND GREEK NOVEL: A POSSIBLE CONNECTION / Giuseppe Zanetto -- RESISTANT (AND ENABLING) READING: PETRONIUS’ SATYRICON AND LATIN LOVE ELEGY / Judith P. Hallett -- LA MISE EN SCENE DECLAMATOIRE CHEZ LES ROMANCIERS LATINS / Danielle van Mal-Maeder -- DER BYZANTINISCHE ROMAN DES 12.JAHRHUNDERTS ALS SPIEGEL DES ZEITGENÖSSISCHEN LITERATURBETRIEBS / Ruth E. Harder -- STATIC IMITATION OR CREATIVE TRANSFORMATION? ACHILLES TATIUS IN HYSMINE and HYSMINIAS / Ingela Nilsson -- THE ‘ENTFÜHRUNG AUS DEM SERAIL’-MOTIF IN THE BYZANTINE (VERNACULAR) ROMANCES / Willem J. Aerts -- STAGING THE FRINGE BEFORE SHAKESPEARE: HANS SACHS AND THE ANCIENT NOVEL / Niklas Holzberg -- HELIODOR, MADEMOISELLE DE SCUDÉRY UND UMBERTO ECO: LEKTÜREN DES LIEBESROMANS IN L’ISOLA DEL GIORNO PRIMA / Günter Berger -- FROM PETRONIUS TO PETROLIO: SATYRICON AS A MODEL-EXPERIMENTAL NOVEL / Massimo Fusillo -- MYTHS OF PERSON AND PLACE: THE SEARCH FOR A MODEL FOR THE ANCIENT GREEK NOVEL / Gareth Schmeling -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS / Stelios Panayotakis , Maaike Zimmerman and Wytse Keulen -- BIBLIOGRAPHY: ABBREVIATIONS / Stelios Panayotakis , Maaike Zimmerman and Wytse Keulen -- GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY / Stelios Panayotakis , Maaike Zimmerman and Wytse Keulen -- INDEX / Stelios Panayotakis , Maaike Zimmerman and Wytse Keulen -- SUPPLEMENTS TO MNEMOSYNE / H. Pinkster , H.S. Versnel , D.M. Schenkeveld , P.H. Schrijvers and S.R. Slings.