The Fifth International Conference on the Ancient Novel, which was held in Houston, Texas, in the fall of 2015, brought together scholars and students of the ancient novel from all over the world in order to share new and significant developments about this fascinating field of study and its important place in the field of Classical Studies. The essays contained in these two volumes are clear evidence that the ancient novel has become a valuable part of the Classics canon and its scholarly attempts to understand the ancient Graeco-Roman world.
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Silvio Bär in Museum Helveticum 77/2 (2020), pp. 284-285
VOLUME 1
Preface IX
MARÍLIA P. FUTRE PINHEIRO
Landmarks and Turning Points in the Study of the Ancient Novel since the Fourth International Conference on the Ancient Novel, Lisbon, 2008 XIII
LONGUS
ANTON BIERL
Longus’ Hyperreality: Daphnis and Chloe as a Meta-text about Mimesis and Simulation 3
GIULIA SARA CORSINO
Progress of Erotic Customs in the Ancient Novel: Three Parthenoi and Chloe in Longus’ Poimenikà 29
ANDREA CAPRA
A 19th-Century ‘Milesian Tale’: Settembrini’s Neoplatonici 45
MARY COZAD
Trent, Literary Theory, and Sixteenth-Century Adaptations of Daphnis and Chloe 61
ACHILLES TATIUS
ERIK FREDERICKSEN
In the Mouth of the Crocodile: Interiors, Exteriors, and Problems of Penetrability in Achilles Tatius’ Leucippe And Clitophon 77
FROMA I. ZEITLIN
From the Neck up: Kissing and Other Oral Obsessions in Achilles Tatius 95
PAULINE A. LEVEN
Doing Philosophy in the Elephant’s Mouth: Three Readings of Two Ekphrases in Achilles Tatius, Leucippe and Clitophon, IV, 2-5 109
MICHEL BRIAND
Achilles Tatius’ Ecphraseis of Abused Female Bodies: Interplays of Gendered Metafiction and Intensity 127
HELIODORUS
BENEDEK KRUCHIÓ
The Dynamics of Summing up: A Metaliterary Reading of Heliodorus 10,36 and 10,39 153
MELISSA BARDEN DOWLING
Heliodorus and Pythagoras 177
EMILIO CAPETTINI
Charicleia the Bacchante: Erōs and Genealogy in Heliodorus’ Aethiopica 195
THE RECEPTION OF HELIODORUS BETWEEN THE SIXTEENTH AND THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES
HEINZ HOFMANN
Introduction. Heliodorus Redivivus: From the Manuscripts to the First Editions and Translations 223
ROBERT H. F. CARVER
Knowing Heliodorus: The Reception of the Aethiopica in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century England 231
CORRADO CONFALONIERI
Tasso, the Aethiopica, and the Debate on Literary Genres between Renaissance and Baroque 263
MASSIMO FUSILLO
The Serial Dramatization: Alexander Hardy’s Tragicomedy Théagène et Cariclée 279
LAURENCE PLAZENET
What Did Heliodorus’ Name Stand for in the Works of Mlle De Scudéry? 289
STEFAN SEEBER
A Commodified Heliodorus: The German Translation of the Aithiopika in Context 313
Contributors 331
Abstracts 337
Indices 345
Index locorum 345
General Index 346
VOLUME 2
PETRONIUS
TIZIANA RAGNO
The Light in Troy (Petr. 89): Imitation of Archaic (and Modern)Tragedy and Discovery of Virgil’s New Epic 3
MARILYN B. SKINNER
Social Reproduction among Petronius’ Freedmen 43
APULEIUS
NADIA SCIPPACERCOLA
Fabulae, Humanity, and Fortune: Towards a Reading of Apuleius’ Metamorphoses 59
GEOFFREY C. BENSON
Cupid and Psyche and the Illumination of the Unseen 85
LEONARDO COSTANTINI
The Entertaining Function of Magic and Mystical Silence in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses 117
PAOLA FRANCESCA MORETTI
‘Seeing the Truth’: Some Remarks on Color(s) and Meaning in Apuleius’ Golden Ass 135
REGINE MAY
Magic and Continuity in Apuleius: Isis from Witchcraft to Mystery Cults 157
TIMOTHY M. O’SULLIVAN
Human and Animal Touch in Apuleius’ Golden Ass 179
SILVIA MATTIACCI
Robbers, Matrons, and the Roman Identity of Haemus’ Tale in Apul. Met. 7,5-8 191
ANTONIUS DIOGENES
HELENA SCHMEDT
Language and Style in Antonius Diogenes: Atticism and the Second Sophistic 213
PROTAGORAS ROMANCE
NIALL W. SLATER
Speech Acts and Genre Games in the Protagoras Romance 231
PHLEGON
VALENTINA POPESCU
Phlegon’s Marvels in Context 249
HISTORIA APOLLONII REGIS TYRI
BENJAMIN WHEATON
The Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri and the Transformation of Civic Power in the Late Empire 263
MISCELLANEOUS
SUSAN TOWER HOLLIS
Late Egyptian Literary Tales 279
JUDITH PERKINS
Non-Retaliation in the Acts of Philip 297
DONALD LATEINER
Olfactoring Ancient Fictions: Fair and Foul Fragrances in Ancient Novels 319
Contributors 355
Abstracts 361
Indices 369
Index locorum 369
General Index 371
