The Ancient Novel: An Introduction

The Ancient Novel (2005)\r......Page 1
ISBN: 0415107520......Page 4
--> CONTENTS......Page 6
AUTHOR’S NOTE......Page 8
A conventional plot: Xenophon’s Ephesiaca......Page 9
The surviving texts......Page 13
Ancient labels......Page 14
Characteristics of the idealistic and comic-realistic novels......Page 15
The fringe: other novel-like literature of antiquity......Page 16
1. Utopia and fantastic travel......Page 17
2. Fictional biography......Page 19
3. Historical novels in epistolary form......Page 22
4. Fictional reports from Troy......Page 23
5. Early Christian novel-like literature......Page 25
A definition of the genre......Page 27
Theories on the origins......Page 29
The novel as a product of political, social and cultural upheavals......Page 30
The novel as ‘closet drama’ and ‘bourgeois prose epic’......Page 32
The novel’s ancient readership......Page 33
Novel and historiography......Page 34
Ninus......Page 36
Sesonchosis......Page 37
A genre is born......Page 38
Chariton, Callirhoe......Page 40
Other novels in historical dress: Parthenope, Chione, Calligone......Page 44
A string of adventures: Xenophon of Ephesus, Ephesiaca......Page 46
Lollianus, Phoenicica......Page 48
An attempt to diversify: Antonius Diogenes, The Wonders Beyond Thule......Page 50
4 THE COMIC-REALISTIC NOVEL......Page 54
A Greek comic-realistic novel in prose and verse: Iolaus......Page 55
Topsy-turvy world: Petronius, Satyrica......Page 56
Appearances and reality: the Greek Ass Romance......Page 62
Satire, Platonism and mysteries: Apuleius, Metamorphoses......Page 66
5 THE IDEALISTIC NOVEL IN THE AGE OF THE SECOND SOPHISTIC......Page 71
Wallowing in lurid effects: Iamblichus, Babyloniaca......Page 72
Adding the human touch: Achilles Tatius, Leucippe and Clitophon......Page 73
Sexual psychology and bucolic paradise: Longus, Daphnis and Chloe......Page 78
Acme of narrative technique: Heliodorus, Aethiopica......Page 82
TEXTS......Page 88
The Greek novel......Page 91
The genre: origins and definition......Page 92
Achilles Tatius......Page 93
Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles......Page 94
Apuleius, Metamorphoses......Page 95
Chariton......Page 96
Euhemerus of Messene and Iambulus......Page 97
Heliodorus......Page 98
Iamblichus......Page 99
Lollianus......Page 100
Longus......Page 101
Ninus......Page 102
Petronius......Page 103
Pseudo-Callisthenes......Page 104
Xenophon of Athens, Cyropaedia......Page 105
Xenophon of Ephesus......Page 106
INDEX......Page 107