A Companion to the Ancient Novel

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John Wiley & Sons, Jan 31, 2014 - Literary Criticism - 632 pages

This companion addresses a topic of continuing contemporary relevance, both cultural and literary.

  • Offers both a wide-ranging exploration of the classical novel of antiquity and a wealth of close literary analysis
  • Brings together the most up-to-date international scholarship on the ancient novel, including fresh new academic voices
  • Includes focused chapters on individual classical authors, such as Petronius, Xenophon and Apuleius, as well as a wide-ranging thematic analysis
  • Addresses perplexing questions concerning authorial expression and readership of the ancient novel form
  • Provides an accomplished introduction to a genre with a rising profile
 

Contents

Notes on Contributors
1952
Introduction
1958
Chariton Individuality and Stereotype
1971
Conclusion
1982
Xenophon The Ephesian Tales
Achilles Tatius Sophistic Master of Novelistic
Heliodorus the Ethiopian Story
Petronius Satyrica
Mixed Marriages
The Magnetic Stone of Love Greek Novel
Respect these Breastsand Pity Me Greek
Poems in Petronius Satyrica
Various Asses
Greek Novel and Greek Archaic Literature
Ekphrasis in the Ancient Novel
Miscellanea Petroniana A Petronian

Apuleius The Golden Ass The Nature of
Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri
Pumpkin
Related
The Genre of the Novel A Theoretical
The Management of Dialogue in Ancient
Characterization in the Ancient Novel
Liaisons Dangereuses Epistolary Novels
Christianity
Reception of Strangers in Apuleius
From the Epic to the Novelistic Hero Some
Roman Elegy and the Roman Novel
Meroe
Apuleius Metamorphoses A Hybrid Text?
Love Myth and Ritual The Mythic Dimension
Gender in the Ancient Novel
Education as Construction of Gender Roles
Greek Love in the Greek Novel
Latin Culture in the Second Century
The Speeches
Mimethic Paideia in Lucians True History
Reimagining Community in Christian Fictions
The Poetics of Old Wives Tales or Apuleius
Achilles Tatius and Heliodorus Between
Longus Daphnis and Chloe Literary
Island
Index

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About the author (2014)

Shannon N. Byrne is Professor of Classics at Xavier University.

Edmund P. Cueva is Professor of Classics and Humanities at the University of Houston-Downtown. Together, they have coedited several books, including of Authors, Authority and Interpreters in the Ancient Novel: Essays in Honor of Gareth L. Schmeling (with J. Alvares, 2006), Longus: Text, Commentary and Vocabulary (2005), and Humor and Classical Literature (2002).

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