Greek and the Roman Novel

Author: Paschalis   Michael  

Publisher: Barkhuis‎

Publication year: 2007

E-ISBN: 9789491431432

Subject: K85 Archaeology

Language: ENG

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Chapter

1 General

The Coming of Age and Political Accommodation in the Greco-Roman Novels

Narratives of Failure

Magic in the Ancient Novel

Posthumous Parleys: Chatting Up the Dead in the Ancient Novels

The Greek and the Latin Alexander Romance: Comparative Readings

2 Petronius and Others

Kleitophon and Encolpius: Achilleus Tatius as Hidden Author

Links between Antonius Diogenes and Petronius

A Lengthy Sentence: Judging the Prolixity of the Novels

The True Nature of the Satyricon?

3 Apuleius and Others

Who Knows What? The Access to Knowledge in Ancient Novels: the Strange Cases of Chariton and Apuleius

Transforming the Genre: Apuleius’ Metamorphoses

Parallel Cults? Religion and Narrative in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses and Some Greek Novels

Wonders Beyond Athens: Reading the ‘Phaedra’ Stories in Apuleius and Heliodoros

Leering for the Plot: Visual Curiosity in Apuleius and Others

Apuleius, the Onos, and Rome

Aesop, the ‘Onos’, The Golden Ass, and a Hidden Treasure

Abstracts

List of Contributors

Indices

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