As the name Ancient Narrative indicates, the areas of interest of the journal are: Greek, Roman, Jewish novelistic traditions, including novels proper, the "fringe", as well as the fragments; narrative texts of the Byzantine age, early Christian narrative texts - and the reception of these works in modern literature, film and music.
Contents
KEITH BRADLEY
Apuleius and Carthage 1
ALEXANDER HÄUSSLER
Der Prolog der Metamorphosen des Apuleius als Spiegel des Gesamtwerkes 30
GRAEME MILES
Music and Immortality: The Afterlife of Achilles in Philostratus' Heroicus 66
MERIEL JONES
The Wisdom of Egypt: Base and Heavenly Magic in Heliodoros' Aithiopika 79
NIKOLAI ENDRES
Roman Fever: Petronius' Satyricon and Gore Vidal's The City and the Pillar 99
Reviews
T. HÄGG, B. UTAS: The Virgin and Her Lover. Fragments of an Ancient Greek Novel and a Persian Epic Poem
Reviewed by Niklas Holzberg, München 142
A. STRAMAGLIA: [Quintiliano] La città che si cibò dei suoi cadaveri (Declamazioni maggiori, 12)
Reviewed by Bé Breij, Nijmegen 149
JOAN B. BURTON: Niketas Eugenianos: A Byzantine Novel. Drosilla and Charikles. Translated with an Introduction and Explanatory Notes
Reviewed by Ingela Nilsson, Berlin/Uppsala 159
G. GARBUGINO: Enigmi della Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri
Reviewed by Ilaria Ramelli, Catholic University of Milan 169
H. HOFMANN (ed.): Latin Fiction. The Latin Novel in Context
Reviewed by Maria-Elpiniki Oikonomou, Swansea 173
G. JENSSON: The Recollections of Encolpius. The Satyrica of Petronius as Milesian Fiction
Reviewed by Max Goldman, Irvine 181
J.R. MORGAN: Longus: Daphnis and Chloe
Reviewed by Meriel Jones, Swansea 187
T. HÄGG: Parthenope: Selected Studies in Ancient Greek Fiction (1969-2004). Ed. L. Boje Mortensen and T. Eide
Reviewed by M. Plaza, Göteborg 199
J. MARTOS: Las Metamorfosis o El Asno de Oro. Introducción, Texto Latino, Traducción y Notas. Vol. I (Books 1-3) and II (Books 4-11) Reviewed by Maaike Zimmerman, Groningen 208
Abstracts 223
Indices 227
Index locorum 227
General index 227
