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This volume presents a new account, informed by recent scholarship on ancient narrative fiction, of a world that calls to mind the scenes of the Palestrina mosaic, with ships traversing the Nile delta, hippopotamus hunting, religious processions and festivities, and leizurely sightseeing. The commentary argues that the author was most probably an erudite Alexandrian with a polymathic interest in topics as diverse as the arrival of the phoenix in Heliopolis, contemporary art, medical theories of the function of blood in causing psychological imbalances in the young, herbal remedies for poisoning, and the colour of Nile water in glass.
Contents
Preface
References and Abbreviations
Introduction
1 A Subversive Novel
2 The Author
3 The Date of the Author
4 The Dramatic Date of the Novel
5 Contemporary Elements in L&C
6 Ancient Fiction and the Modern Novel
7 Narrative Technique
8 Structure
9 The Naming of Minor Characters and Slaves
10 Literary Texture and Intertextuality
11 Medicine and Magic
12 Religion, Realism, and Ridicule
13 Reception
14 Language and Style
15 The Text
Sigla
Achilles Tatius: Leucippe and Clitophon: Book Three
The Structure of Book 3
Book 3: Text, Translation, and Commentary
Achilles Tatius: Leucippe and Clitophon: Book Four
The Structure of Book 4
Book 4: Text, Translation, and Commentary
Appendix 1: Passages from Ps.-Eustathius
Appendix 2: List of Characters
Appendix 3: Maps and Illustrations
Appendix 4: Statistics
References
Index Nominum
Index Locorum
Index Rerum
Index Graecitatis
