edited by Stelios Panayotakis, Maaike Zimmerman, Wytse Keulen
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Boston :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Brill,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2003
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
xix, 489 p. ;
Dimensions
25 cm
SERIES
Series Title
Mnemosyne. Bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum,
Volume Designation
241
ISSN of Series
0169-8958 ;
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
Text of Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 449-483) and index
CONTENTS NOTE
Text of Note
Part One. The Ancient Novel in Context -- 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 : Apul. Met. 11.1-2 and Vita Aesopi / Ellen Finkelpearl -- The Grand Vizier, the Prophet, and the Satirist : Transformations of the Oriental Ahiqar Romance in Ancient Prose Fiction / Marko Marincic -- 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 / Cathryn Chew -- Three Death Scenes in Apollonius of Tyre / Stelios Panayotakis -- Part Two. The Ancient Novel in Focus -- 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 Eroticism 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 / Francoise Letoublon -- The Role of Inscriptions in Greco-Roman Novels / Erkki Sironen -- Strategies of Authentication in Ancient Popular Literature / William Hansen -- Part Three. Beyond the Ancient Novel -- Archaic Iambos and Greek Novel : A Possible Connection / Giuseppe Zanetto -- Resistant (and enabling) Reading : Petronius' Satyricon and Latin Love Elegy / Judith Hallett -- La mise en scene declamatoire chez les romanciers latins / Daneille van Mal-Maeder -- Der byzantinische Roman des 12. Jahrhunderts als Spiegel des zeitgenossischen Literaturbetriebs / Ruth Harder -- Static Imitation or Creative Transformation? : Achilles Tatius in Hysmine & Hysminias / Ingela Nilsson -- The "Entfuhrung 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 Scudery und Umberto Eco : Lekturen des Liebesromans in L'isola del giorno prima / Gunter 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