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Despite the fact that postmodern aesthetics deny the existence or validity of genres, the tendency nowadays is to assume that there was in Antiquity a homogeneous group of works of narrative prose fiction that, despite their differences, displayed a series of recurrent, iterative, thematic, and formal characteristics, which allows us to label them novels. The papers assembled in this volume include extended prose narratives of all kind and thereby widen and enrich the scope of the canon. The essays explore a wide variety of texts, crossed genres, and hybrid forms, which transgress the boundaries of the so-called ancient novel, providing an excellent insight into different kinds of narrative prose in antiquity.
Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments VIIIntroduction IXA UTOPIA AND PARADOXOGRAPHY 1DISKIN CLAYLucian's Philosophical Island 3HEINRICH KUCHThe Genre Understanding of the Utopian Novel 11BENJAMIN HALLERHomeric parody, the isle of the blessed, and the nature of Paideia in Lucian's Verae Historiae 23VALENTINA POPESCULucian's True Stories: Paradoxography and False Discourse 39B FLUID TEXTS 59ROGER BECKThe Adventures of Six Men in a Boat: the Astral Determinants of a Maritime Narrative in the Anthologies of Vettius Valens 61HENDRIK MUELLER-REINEKEFacts or Fiction? The fruitful relationship between Ancient Novel and literary Miscellany 69GRAMMATIKI A. KARLAIsis-Epiphany in the Life of Aesop: A structural analytic approach 83C CROSSED GENRES 103REGINE MAYMedicine and the Novel: Apuleius' Bonding with the Educated Reader 105NICOLAS BOULIC AND FRANCOISE LETOUBLONPirates in the Library 125LORETO NUNEZLiminal Games: Fluidity of the Sphragis of a Novelist 143D HYBRID FORMS 169ANGELO CASANOVATombs and Stables, Roofs and Brothels, Dens and Raids in Lollianos' Fragments 171FOTINI HADJITTOFIErotic Fiction and Christian Sexual Ethics in Nonnus' Episode of Morrheus and Chalcomede 187JIRISUBRTHagiographic romance: novelistic narrative strategy in Jerome's Lives of Hermits 205Abstracts 215Autobiographical Notes 221Indexes 225Index locoroum 225General Index 227



