The papers in this volume discuss, from various perspectives, the engagement of the ancient novels with their predecessors and aim to identify and interpret the resonances, of different degrees of closeness, of those texts (Homeric epics, traditional and nuptial poetry, the historiographical tradition, Greek theatre, Latin love elegy and pantomime) as elements of an intertextual and metadiscursive play.
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Foreword vii
MARÍLIA P. FUTRE PINHEIRO
Introduction ix
J.R. MORGAN
Introduction xiii
ALAIN BILLAULT
Recognition in the Greek novels 1
CECILIA NOBILI
‘Similar to Artemis or to the Golden Aphrodite’: Topoi of nuptial poetry and rhetoric in the Greek novel 9
ILARIA MARCHESI
Carpe diem, Carpe: Horace, Petronius, and the satirical rhetoric of the novel 23
SILVIA MONTIGLIO
Callirhoe’s silenced dilemma (Chariton 6,7,13) 33
KONSTANTIN DOULAMIS
Literary mimesis and amatory rhetoric in Xenophon of Ephesus 47
SILVIA MATTIACCI
Apuleius, Phaedrus, Martial and the intersection of genres 67
MARIA PIA PATTONI
Tragedy and paratragedy in Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe 83
VAYOS LIAPIS
From Dolon to Dorcon: echoes of Rhesus in Longus 99
M. TERESA CLAVO SEBASTIÁN
The village of Chemmis in the Aithiopika:Heliodorus’ rewriting of historiographical tradition 107
AARA SUKSI
The mother-daughter romance and heroic nostos in Heliodoros’ Aithiopika 117
EDWIN D. FLOYD
Traditional poetic elements in Byzantine verse novels, especially Niketas Eugenianos, Drosilla and Charikles 129
Abstracts 141
Contributors 147
Indices 151
Index locorum 151
General Index 152
