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 /...
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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 -- Chariton / B.P. Reardon -- Xenophon of Ephesus / Bernhard Kytzler -- Longus, Daphnis and Chloe / Richard Hunter -- Achilles Tatius / Karl Plepelitts -- Heliodoros / J.R. Morgan -- The Satyrica of Petronius / Gareth Schmeling -- Apuleius' Metamorphoses / S.J. Harrison -- Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri / Gareth Schmeling -- Lucian's Verae Historiae / Graham Anderson -- The truth and nothing but the truth: Dictys and dares / Stefan Merkle -- Xenophon of Athens: the Cyropaedia / Bodil Due -- The metamorphoses of the Alexander romance / Richard Stoneman -- Philostratus on Apollonius of Tyana: the unpredictable on the unfathomable / Graham Anderson -- Novel-like works of extended prose fiction II / Niklas Holzberg -- Fragments of lost novels / Susan Stephens -- The ancient novel becomes Christian / Richard Pervo -- 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 / Jean Alvares. 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 from the application of a variety of disciplines in the recent years. The 26 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
"The second-century CE novel The Golden Ass, or Metamorphoses, has proven to be both captivating and highly entertaining to the modern reader, but the text also presents the critic with a vast array of interpretive possibilities. In fact, there is...
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"The second-century CE novel The Golden Ass, or Metamorphoses, has proven to be both captivating and highly entertaining to the modern reader, but the text also presents the critic with a vast array of interpretive possibilities. In fact, there is little consensus among scholars on the fundamental significance of Apuleius' novel: is it simply a form of narrative entertainment, or does it represent some sort of religious or philosophical propaganda? Can it be interpreted as a satire of fatuous belief in otherworldly powers, or is it an utterly aporetic text?"--Publisher's description
