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The present volume comprises most of the papers delivered at RICAN 4 in 2007. The focus is placed on readers and writers in the ancient novel and broadly in ancient fiction, though without ignoring readers and writers of the ancient novel. The papers offer a wide and rich range of perspectives: the reading of novels in antiquity as a process of active engagement with the text (Konstan); the dialogic character, involving writer and reader, of Lucian's Verae Historiae (Futre Pinheiro); book divisions in Chariton's Callirhoe as prompts guiding the reader towards gradual mastery over the text (Whitmarsh); polypragmosyne (curiosity) in ancient fiction and how it affects the practice of reading novels (Hunter); the intriguing relationship between the writing and reading of inscriptions in ancient fiction (Slater); the tension between public and private in constructing and reading of texts inserted in the novelistic prose (Nimis); the intertextual pedigree of the poet Eumolpus (Smith); Seneca's Claudius and Petronius' Encolpius as readers of Homer and Virgil and writers of literary scenarios (Paschalis); the ways in which some Greek novels draw the reader's attention to their status as written texts (Bowie); the interfaces between tellers and receivers of stories in Antonius Diogenes (Morgan); the generic components and the putative author of the Alexander Romance (Stoneman); Diktys as a writer and ways of reading his Ephemeris (Dowden); the presence and character of Iliadic intertexts in Apuleius' Metamorphoses (Harrison); the contrasting roles of the narrator-translator in Apuleius' Metamorphoses and De deo Socratis (Fletcher); seriocomic strategies by Roman authors of narrative fiction and fable (Graverini & Keulen); reading as a function for recognizing 'allegorical moments' in the Metamorphoses of Apuleius (Zimmerman); active and passive reading as embedded in Philostratus' Life of Apollonius; and the importance of book reading in Augustine's 'novelistic' Confessions (Hunink).
Contents
Acknowledgements VII Introduction IX DAVID KONSTAN The Active Reader and the Ancient Novel 1 MARAiLIA FUTRE PINHEIRO Dialogues between Readers and Writers in Lucian's Verae Historiae 18 TIM WHITMARSH Divide and Rule: Segmenting Callirhoe and Related Works 36 RICHARD HUNTER The Curious Incident ...: polypragmosyne and the Ancient Novel 51 NIALL SLATER Reading Inscription in the Ancient Novel 64 STEPHEN NIMIS Cite and Sound: The Prosaics of Quotation in the Ancient Novel 79 WARREN S. SMITH Eumolpus the Poet 91 MICHAEL PASCHALIS Seneca's Apocolocyntosis and Petronius' Satyricon 102 EWEN BOWIE The Uses of Bookishness 115 JOHN MORGAN Readers writing Readers, and Writers reading Writers: Reflections of Antonius Diogenes 127 RICHARD STONEMAN The Author of the Alexander Romance 142 KEN DOWDEN Reading Diktys: The Discrete Charm of Bogosity 155 STEPHEN HARRISON Apuleius and Homer: Some Traces of the Iliad in the Metamorphoses 169 RICHARD FLETCHER No Success like Failure: The Task of the Translator in Apuleius' Metamorphoses 184 LUCA GRAVERINI & WYTSE KEULEN Roman Fiction and its Audience: Seriocomic Assertions of Authority 197 MAAIKE ZIMMERMAN 'Food for Thought' for Readers of Apuleius' The Golden Ass 218 JEAN-PHILIPPE GUEZ To Reason and to Marvel: Images of the Reader in the Life of Apollonius 241 VINCENT HUNINK Hating Homer, Fighting Virgilooks in Augustine's Confessions 254 Abstracts 268 Indices 280 Index locorum 280 General index 281
