Inde me commodum egredientem continuatur Pythias condiscipulus apud Athenas Atticas meus, qui me post aliquam multum temporis amanter agnitum invadit, amplexusque ac comiter deosculatus ‘Mi Luci,' ait ‘Sat Pol diu est quod intervisimus te, at Hercule exinde cum a Vestio magistro digressi sumus. Quae autem tibi causa peregrinationis huius?' (Meta. 1,24)

For most of us there are many masters and varied causes for intellectual peregrinations. For the editors of this volume, for many scholars of the ancient novel, and for an uncounted number of students of Classics and the Humanities, Gareth Lon Schmeling is a master and motivator of our scholarly and academic careers, especially of our forays into the ancient novel. And above all Gareth is a true friend. This volume of essays is a small, and, we hope, representative offering of our thanks to Gareth for his contributions to the study of the ancient novel in particular and Classics in general, for his guidance and support in our own endeavors, and for his own special humanity.

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Contents

Preface XI

Curriculum Vitae of Gareth L. Schmeling XV

JEAN ALVARES
Reading Longus' Daphnis and Chloe and Achilles Tatius' Leucippe and Clitophon in Counterpoint 1

BARRY BALDWIN
Gareth and Me: A Petronian Pilgrimage 34

ALAIN BILLAULT
Very Short Stories: Lucian's Close Encounters With Some Paintings 47

EWEN BOWIE
Viewing and Listening on the Novelist's Page 60

SHANNON N. BYRNE
Petronius and Maecenas: Seneca's Calculated Criticism 83

CLAUDIO CONSONNI
On the Text of Achilles Tatius 112

EDMUND P. CUEVA
Who's the Woman on the Bull?: Achilles Tatius 1,4,3 131

MARILIA P. FUTRE PINHEIRO
Utopia and Utopias: a Study on a Literary Genre in Antiquity 147

STEPHEN HARRISON
Divine Authority in ‘Cupid and Psyche': Apuleius Metamorphoses 6,23-24 172

HUGH MASON
The ‘Aura Of Lesbos' and the Opening of Daphnis and Chloe 186

COSTAS PANAYOTAKIS
Eumolpus' Pro Encolpio and Lichas' In Encolpium: Petr. Sat. 107 196

STELIOS PANAYOTAKIS
The Logic of Inconsistency: Apollonius of Tyre and The Thirty-Days' Period of Grace 211

BRYAN REARDON
The Ancient Novel at the Time of Perry 227

GERALD SANDY
Two Renaissance Readers of Apuleius: Filippo Beroaldo and Henri de Mesmes 239

ALDO SETAIOLI
The Poem At Petronius, Sat. 137,9 274

NIALL W. SLATER
Priapus and the Shipwreck (Petronius, Satyricon 100-114) 294

J. P. SULLIVAN
Petronius, Seneca and Lucan: A Neronian Literary Feud? 302

MAAIKE ZIMMERMAN
Awe and Opposition: the Ambivalent Presence of Lucretius in Apuleius' Metamorphoses 317

Abstracts and Biographies 340

Index Verborum 353