Intende, lector : echoes of myth, religion and ritual in the ancient novel

Introduction / Anton Bierl 
 Roundtable. Myth and the Novel. Myth and the Novel: Introductory Remarks and Comments on the Roundtable Discussion / Anton Bierl 
 Myth in the Novel: Some Observations / Jan N. Bremmer 
 The Literary Myth in the Novel / Edmund Cueva 
 Myths in the Novel: Gender, Violence and Power / Marília P. Futre Pinheiro 
 Novel and Mythology {u2013} Contribution to a Round Table / Fritz Graf 
 Greek Novel and Local Myth / Tim Whitmarsh 
 Mythical Repertoire and Its Functions in Apuleius{u2019} Metamorphoses / Maaike Zimmerman 
 Storyline, Poetics and Religion. Love, Mysteries and Literary Tradition: New Experiences and Old Frames / Emilio Suárez de la Torre and Enrique Pérez Benito 
 The Tale of a Dream: Oneiros and Mythos in the Greek Novel / Aglae Massima Valeria Pizzone 
 From Mystery to Initiation: A Mytho-Ritual Poetics of Love and Sex in the Ancient Novel {u2013} even in Apuleius{u2019} Golden Ass? / Anton Bierl 
 From the Legend of Cupid and Psyche to the Novel of Mélusine: Myth, Novel and Twentieth Century Adaptations / Giovanni Solinas 
 Apuleius and Cupid and Psyche: Anthropological, Christian and Philosophical Perspectives. Puella Virgo: Rites of Passage in Apuleius{u2019} Metamorphoses / Joanna Atkin 
 Gnostic Variations on the Tale of Cupid and Psyche / Chiara O. Tommasi Moreschini 
 Apuleius and Christianity: The Novelist-Philosopher in front of a New Religion / Ilaria L. E. Ramelli 
 Ritual, Myth and Intertextuality. Donkey Gone to Hell: A Katabasis Motif in Apuleius{u2019} Metamorphoses / Sonia Sabnis 
 Iphigenia Revisited: Heliodorus{u2019} Aethiopica and the {u2018}Der Tod und das Mädchen{u2019} Pattern / Anna Lefteratou 
 {u2018}Non humana viscera sed centies sestertium comesse{u2019} (Petr. Sat. 141,7): Philomela and the Cannibal Heredipetae in the Crotonian Section of Petronius{u2019} Satyricon / Paolo Monella 
 Religious Imagery, Cult, Mystery and Art. False Fortuna: Religious Imagery and the Painting-Gallery Episode in the Satyricon / Mike Lippman 
 The Bees of Artemis Ephesia and the Apocalyptic Scene in Joseph and Aseneth / Maria S. Kasyan 
 Magic, Comic Reversal and Healing. Shamans and Charlatans: Magic, Mixups, Literary Memory in Apuleius{u2019} Golden Ass Book 3 / R. Drew Griffith 
 Lucius{u2019}s Rose: Symbolic or Sympathetic Cure? / Max Nelson.