The Novel in the Ancient WorldGareth L. Schmeling BRILL, 1996 - Broj stranica: 876 This is the second publication in Brill's handbook series "The Classical Tradition," 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 form the application of a variety of disciplines in the recent years. The 25 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. This publication has also been published in paperback, please click here for details. |
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Preface | 1 |
Novels Proper and the Fringe | 11 |
The Rise of the Greek Novel | 29 |
The Ancient Readers of the Greek Novels | 87 |
Popular and Sophisticated in the Ancient Novel | 107 |
Characterization in the Ancient Novel | 115 |
Mystery Religions Aretalogy and the Ancient Novel | 131 |
Women in the Ancient Novel | 151 |
A Lucians Verae Historiae | 555 |
the Cyropaedia | 581 |
The Metamorphoses of the Alexander Romance | 601 |
the Unpredictable | 613 |
Euhemerus Iambulus | 621 |
Ctesias | 629 |
Dio Chrysostom | 640 |
Fragments of Lost Novels | 655 |
The Social and Economic Structures of the Ancient Novels | 221 |
Modern Critical Theories and the Ancient Novel | 277 |
A Chariton | 309 |
B Xenophon of Ephesus | 336 |
Longus Daphnis and Chloe | 361 |
Achilles Tatius | 387 |
E Heliodoros | 417 |
F The Satyrica of Petronius | 457 |
G Apuleius Metamorphoses | 491 |
H Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri | 517 |
The Ancient Novel Becomes Christian | 685 |
The Byzantine Revival of the Ancient Novel | 713 |
The Heritage of the Ancient Greek Novel in France and Britain | 735 |
The Nachleben of the Ancient Novel in Iberian Literature | 775 |
A The World of the Ancient Novels | 803 |
G Apollonius King of Tyre | 809 |
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