In the Greek world under the Roman Empire, the tradition of rhetorical learning reached its heyday in the second century A.D., with the cultural movement named as “Second Sophistic”. Despite the emphasis on rhetoric, literary culture lato senso was was also part of it, granting a special place to poetics and literary criticism. In the wake of this hermeneutical and interdisciplinary approach, the papers assembled in this volume explore significant issues, which are linked to the narrative structure of the ancient novel and to the tradition of rhetorical training, both envisaged as a web of well-constructed narrative devices.
Marília P. Futre Pinheiro
I MODERN CRITICAL THEORY
Marco Fucecchi
Trials and their Narrative Functions in the Ancient Novel 3
Bruce Duncan MacQueen
Erotic Neoteny in Longus' Daphnis And Chloe 17
J.-P. Guez
Philostratus' Life of Apollonius: Magic, Gorgianism, Asianism 31
II POETICS
Montserrat Reig Calpe
The Mimetic Concept of Homoiotes in the Structure of Heliodorus' Novel 51
Stefan Tilg
On the Idea of Homer in the Ancient Novel:
A Study of Direct References to the Father of Classical Literature 61
Irina Protopopova
Gold, Purple, and the Mystery of the Shell: Reflections in Achilles Tatius 85
III RHETORIC
José Antonio Fernández Delgado
Sentimental Education and Rhetoric in Daphnis and Chloe: Seasonal ekphrasis 99
Laura Miguélez-Cavero
Animals as a Means of Characterisation in Heliodorus' Aethiopica 115
Zoja Pavlovskis-Petit
The Riddle Game in Apollonius of Tyre 127
Rodolfo González Equihua
Progymnasmatic Features in Heliodorus' Characterizations 135
Gottskálk Jensson
Performative Stage Directions in the Satyrica's Inquits 147
Marko Marincic
Prophetic Myths and Pictured Recollections:
Rhetoric of Ecphrasisin Moschus' Europa and in Achilles Tatius' Leucippe and Clitophon 155
Jesús Ureña Bracero
The Evidence of Compositionwith progymnasmata in Eustathios Makrembolites' Novel 183
