| Description |
1 online resource (705 pages) |
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Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World |
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Blackwell companions to the ancient world.
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| Contents |
TABLE OF CONTENTS -- Notes on Contributors viii -- Introduction 1 Edmund P. Cueva and Shannon N. Byrne -- Part I Novels and Authors 11 a. Greek 12 -- 1 Chariton: Individuality and Stereotype 13 -- Graham Anderson -- 2 Daphnis and Chloe: Innocence and Experience, Archetypes and Art 26 -- Jean Alvares -- 3 Xenophon, The Ephesian Tales 43 -- James N. O’Sullivan -- 4 Achilles Tatius, Sophistic Master of Novelistic Conventions 62 -- Kathryn S. Chew -- 5 Heliodorus, the Ethiopian Story 76 -- Marília P. Futre Pinheiro -- b. Roman 95 -- 6 Petronius, Satyrica 96 -- Heinz Hofmann -- 7 Apuleius’ The Golden Ass: The Nature of the Beast 119 -- Paula James -- 8 Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri 133 -- Giovanni Garbugino -- c. Related 146 -- 9 The Other Greek Novels 147 -- Susan Stephens -- 10 Hell-bent, Heaven-sent: From Skyman to Pumpkin 159 -- Barry Baldwin -- 11 The Novel and Christian Narrative 180 -- David Konstan and Ilaria Ramelli -- Part II Genre and Approaches 199 -- 12 The Genre of the Novel: A Theoretical Approach 201 -- Marília P. Futre Pinheiro -- 13 The Management of Dialogue in Ancient Fiction 217 -- Graham Anderson -- 14 Characterization in the Ancient Novel 231 -- Koen De Temmerman -- 15 Liaisons Dangereuses: Epistolary Novels in Antiquity 244 -- Timo Glaser -- 16 The Life of Aesop (rec.G): The Composition of the Text 257 -- Consuelo Ruiz-Montero -- |
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Part III Influences and Intertextuality 273 -- 17 Reception of Strangers in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses: The Examples of Hypata and Cenchreae 275 -- Stavros Frangoulidis -- 18 From the Epic to the Novelistic Hero: Some Patterns of a Metamorphosis 288 -- Luca Graverini -- 19 Roman Elegy and the Roman Novel 300 -- Judith P. Hallett and Judith Hindermann -- 20 Apuleius’ Metamorphoses: A Hybrid Text? 317 -- Paula James -- 21 The Magnetic Stone of Love: Greek Novel and Poetry 330 -- Françoise Létoublon -- 22 “Respect these Breasts and Pity Me”: Greek Novel and Theater 352 -- Françoise Létoublon and Marco Genre -- 23 Poems in Petronius’ Satyrica 371 -- Aldo Setaioli -- 24 Various Asses 384 -- Niall W. Slater -- 25 Greek Novel and Greek Archaic Literature 400 -- Giuseppe Zanetto -- 26 Ekphrasis in the Ancient Novel 411 -- Angela Holzmeister -- Part IV Themes and Topics 425 -- 27 Miscellanea Petroniana: A Petronian Enthusiast’s Thoughts and Reviews 427 -- Barry Baldwin -- 28 Love, Myth, and Ritual: The Mythic Dimension and Adolescence in Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe 441 -- Anton Bierl -- 29 Gender in the Ancient Novel 456 -- Ellen D. Finkelpearl -- 30 Education as Construction of Gender Roles in the Greek Novels 473 -- Sophie Lalanne -- 31 Greek Love in the Greek Novel 490 -- John F. Makowski -- 32 Latin Culture in the Second Century ad 502 -- Claudio Moreschini -- 33 Mimet(h)ic Paideia in Lucian’s True History 522 -- Peter von Möllendorff -- 34 Reimagining Community in Christian Fictions 535 -- Judith Perkins -- 35 The Poetics of Old Wives’ Tales, or Apuleius and the Philosophical Novel 552 -- Stefan Tilg -- 36 Achilles Tatius and Heliodorus: Between Aristotle and Hitchcock 570 -- Martin M. Winkler -- 37 Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe: Literary Transmission and Reception 584 -- Maria Pia Pattoni -- Index 598 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Classical fiction -- History and criticism
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Classical fiction
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Byrne, Shannon N
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| ISBN |
9781118350584 |
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1118350588 |
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