This volume in honour of John Morgan contains seventeen essays by colleagues, research students, and post-doctoral researchers who have worked with and been influenced by him during his 40 years in Swansea, up to and beyond his retirement in 2015. It is designed to reflect the esteem and affection in which the honorand is held, as teacher, supervisor, colleague, and friend.
All the contributions reflect John Morgan’s interests, with a particular focus on narrative, which has always been at the forefront of his teaching and research: he has elucidated the forms, structures, strategies, and functions of numerous ancient narratives, especially fictional, in a voluminous body of scholarship. The contributors consider a wide range of narratives, extending from those which show the influence of older stories on the beginnings of ancient Greek civilisation, through various narrative genres in different periods of antiquity, and up to later eras when the impact of Greek and Roman learning, stories, and ideas has been felt. The core of this volume contains discussions of narratives from the Roman imperial period, since this is the area to which the majority of John Morgan’s work has been devoted and where his research has seen him become a world-leader in the study of the ancient Greek novel. Several of the contributions, at various stages of development, were delivered and discussed at gatherings organised under the aegis of KYKNOS, the Centre for Research on the Narrative Literatures of the Ancient World, which was established at Swansea in 2004 at John Morgan’s initiative.
Acknowledgements ix
Ian Repath and Fritz-Gregor Herrmann
Introduction xi
Bibliography of John Morgan xv
Alan B. Lloyd
Ramesses II in Legend 1
Evelien Bracke
Narrative manipulation of Medea and Metis in Hesiod’s Theogony 13
Fritz-Gregor Herrmann
Plato’s Phoinikika: A Royal Lie in the Republic 33
Ken Dowden
Fact and fiction in the New Mythography: 100 BC – AD 100 65
Koen De Temmerman
Here’s to friendship: An overlooked pair of friends in an ancient Greek novel 85
Aldo Tagliabue
Apollo’s oracle in Xenophon’s Ephesiaca: Reassessment of a controversial passage 103
Owen Hodkinson
Les lettres dangeureuses: Epistolary narrative as metafiction in the Epistles of Chion of Heraclea 127
Christopher Gill
Two Roman Imperial Narratives of Self-Construction 155
Ian Repath
Longus: The Education of Dorcon 173
Rachel Bird
Heliodorus’ Charicleia and Euripides’ Hippolytus: Surviving Sōphrosynē 193
Nicolò D’Alconzo
Concepts and Conceptions: Reading Aithiopika 10,14,7 211
Mark Humphries
Narrative and Subversion: Exemplary Rome and Imperial Misrule in Ammianus Marcellinus 233
Daniel Ogden
Niceros, Hermotimus and Bisclavret: Werewolves, Souls and Innkeepers 255
Ceri Davies
John Stradling on life and death: Two Latin historiolae from early modern Glamorgan 279
Loreto Núñez
‘Hidden Authors’ and Framing Narrators: Intertextual Dialogue on Narrative Embeddedness between Achilles Tatius and Núñez de Reinoso 299
Saiichiro Nakatani
Metamorphosis of Daphnis and Chloe in the Far East: Yukio Mishima’s The Sound of Waves (Shiosai) 321
Gillian Bazovsky
The Reception of Pan in Novels Ancient & Modern: Daphnis and Chloe & Jitterbug Perfume 343
