附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 449-483) and index.
Part One. The Ancient Novel in Context -- Alexander the Great in the Arabic Tradition / Richard Stoneman -- "The Last Days of Alexander" in an Arabic Popular Romance of Al-Iskandar / Faustina Doufikar-Aerts -- Lucius and Aesop Gain a Voice : Apul. Met. 11.1-2 and Vita Aesopi / Ellen Finkelpearl -- The Grand Vizier, the Prophet, and the Satirist : Transformations of the Oriental Ahiqar Romance in Ancient Prose Fiction / Marko Marincic -- Living Portraits and Sculpted Bodies in Chariton's Theater of Romance / Froma I. Zeitlin -- Spectator and Spectacle in Apuleius / Niall W. Slater -- Plato's Dream : Philosophy and Fiction in the Theaetetus / Kathryn Morgan -- Fiction as a Discourse of Philosophy in Lucian's Verae Historiae / Andrew Laird -- The Representation of Violence in the Greek Novels and Martyr Accounts / Cathryn Chew -- Three Death Scenes in Apollonius of Tyre / Stelios Panayotakis -- Part Two. The Ancient Novel in Focus -- Swordplay -- Wordplay : Phraseology of Fiction in Apuleius' Metamorphoses / Wytse Keulen -- Nymphs, Neighbours and Narrators : a Narratological Approach to Longus / John Morgan -- Reading for Pleasure : Narrative, Irony, and Eroticism in Achilles Tatius / Tim Whitmarsh -- The Winged Ass : Intertextuality and Narration in Apuleius' Metamorphoses / Luca Graverini -- Tlepolemus the Spectral Spouse / Donald Lateiner -- Epic Extremities : The Openings and Closures of Books in Apuleius' Metamorphoses / Stephen Harrison -- In mediis rebus : Beginning Again in the Middle of the Ancient Novel / Stephen Nimis -- La lettre dans le roman grec ou les liaisons dangereuses / Francoise Letoublon -- The Role of Inscriptions in Greco-Roman Novels / Erkki Sironen -- Strategies of Authentication in Ancient Popular Literature / William Hansen -- Part Three. Beyond the Ancient Novel -- Archaic Iambos and Greek Novel : A Possible Connection / Giuseppe Zanetto -- Resistant (and enabling) Reading : Petronius' Satyricon and Latin Love Elegy / Judith Hallett -- L
摘要:This work comprises the revised versions of selected papers read at the International Conference on the Ancient Novel (Groningen, July 2000). The essays combine judicious use of literary theory with traditional scholarship, and examines the ancient novels and related texts.
