The study of the reception of the ancient novel and of its literary and cultural heritage is one of the most appealing issues in the story of this literary genre. In no other genre has the vitality of classical tradition manifested itself in such a lasting and versatile manner as in the novel. However, this unifying, centripetal quality also worked in an opposite direction, spreading to and contaminating future literatures. Over the centuries, from Antiquity to the present time there have been many authors who drew inspiration from the Greek and Roman novels or used them as models, from Cervantes to Shakespeare, Sydney or Racine, not to mention the profound influence these texts exercised on, for instance, sixteenth-to eighteenth-century Italian, Portuguese and Spanish literature. Volume I is divided into sections that follow a chronological order, while Volume II deals with the reception of the ancient novel in literature and art. The first volume brings together an international group of scholars whose main aim is to analyse the survival of the ancient novel in the ancient world and in the Middle Ages, in the Renaissance, in the 17th and 18th centuries, and in the modern era. The contributors to the second volume have undertaken the task of discussing the survival of the ancient novel in the visual arts, in literature and in the performative arts. The papers assembled in these two volumes on reception are at the forefront of scholarship in the field and will stimulate scholarly research on the ancient novel and its influence over the centuries up to modern times, thus enriching not only Classics but also modern languages and literatures, cultural history, literary theory and comparative literature.
Reviews
Joël Thomas in Latomus ? (2015), 252-255
José Carlos Araújo in Evphrosyne 42 (2014), 316-318
Hélène Frangoulis in BMCR 2013.02.09
Editors’ Introduction ix
A THE RECEPTION OF THE ANCIENT NOVEL IN THE VISUAL TRADITION
Hugh Mason
Charikleia at the Mauritshuis 3
Faustina C.W. Doufikar-Aerts
Susanna and her Sisters. The Virtuous Lady Motif in Sacred Tradition and its Representation in Art, Secular Writing and Popular Narrative 19
B ECHOES OF APULEIUS’ METAMORPHOSES IN ART AND LITERATURE
Beatrice Bakhouche
Martianus Capella’s De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercuriior the Subversion of the Latin Novel 33
Gerald Sandy
Apuleius, Beroaldo and the Development of the (Early) Modern Classical Commentary 47
Ferruccio Bertini
The Golden Ass and its Nachleben in the Middle Ages and in the Renaissance 61
Michele Rak
From word to image: notes on the Renaissance reception of Apuleius’s Metamorphoses 83
Christiane Reitz & Lorenz Winkler-Horaček
Love on a wallpaper: Apuleius in the boudoir 95
C THE RECEPTION OF PETRONIUS’ SATYRICON: PERENNIAL PATTERNS
Nikolai Endres
Petronius in West Egg: The Satyricon and The Great Gatsby 111
Niall W. Slater
‘His Career as Trimalchio’: Petronian Character and Narrative in Fitzgerald’s Great American Novel 125
Massimo Fusillo
Petronius and the Contemporary Novel: Between New Picaresque and Queer Aesthetics 135
D THE RECEPTION OF THE ANCIENT NOVEL IN DRAMA
Jon Solomon
Callirhoe and Operatic Heroines derived from Ancient Novels 147
Simone Beta
Le dieu Pan fait pan pan pan de son pied de chèvre: Daphnis and Chloe on the stage at the end of the nineteenth century 157
Tiziana Ragno
Widows on the operatic stage:The ‘Ephesian Matron’ as a dramatic character in twentieth-century German musical theatre (esp. 1928-1952) 169
Stephen Harrison
Apuleius On the Radio:Louis MacNeice’s BBC Dramatisations 181
Abstracts 195
Contributors 203
Indices 207
Index locorum 207
General index 208
