Evelyn Adkins and Edmund P. Cueva
Introduction: Materiality and Ancient Narrative 1
GREEK NARRATIVES
Marine Glénisson
Glasses and Other Tableware in Achilles Tatius’ Leucippe and Clitophon: Making Sense of a Complex Novel by Looking at Objects 19
Everett Beek
Alien Technology in Ancient Novels: Lucian’s Moon Mirror and Anticipated Innovation 35
Marco Palone
Auditory Ekphrasis in Heliodorus’ Aethiopica 59
Jeffrey P. Ulrich
Dionysiac Paintings: The Presence of Visual Art in Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe 77
William M. Owens
Novel Reflections on the Paradox of the Slave as a Human Possession 101
GREEK AND ROMAN NARRATIVES
Nadia Scippacercola
Il tripode, la bambolina e il lino nei riti necromantici dei romanzi antichi 123
ROMAN NARRATIVES
Regine May
Religious Paraphernalia in the Worship of Dea Syria and Isis in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses 151
Christopher Nappa
Personal Instrument: Perceived Status and the Materiality of Persons in Petronius’ Satyrica 173
Basil Dufallo
The Disorienting Agency of Objects in Petronius’s Satyrica 189
Evelyn Adkins and Mark D. Hammond
An Archaeo-Literary Analysis of the Tale of the Tub (Met. 9,5-7), Vessels, and Containers in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses 211
Victoria Hodges
The Mulier Equitans: Erotic Choreography and the Meretrix in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses 239
Sonia Sabnis
Psyche’s Secrets: Apuleius’ Myth in Works by Meret Oppenheim and Wendy Osher 263
CHRISTIAN NARRATIVES
Melissa Harl Sellew
Materiality and the Senses in the Acts of Paul and Thecla 283
A.E.T. McLaughlin
A Touch of the Miraculous: Tactile Piety in Gregory of Tours’s Books of Miracles 313
Contributors 331
Indices 335
Index locorum 335
General Index 342
