Intende, Lector - Echoes of Myth, Religion and Ritual in the Ancient Novel

Book

Intende, Lector - Echoes of Myth, Religion and Ritual in the Ancient Novel

Edited by: Marília P. Futre Pinheiro , Anton Bierl and Roger Beck

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2013

Published by

Become an author with De Gruyter Brill

Explore this Subject How to publish with us

This book is in the series

Volume 6 | MythosEikonPoiesis

About this book

Representation of myth in the novel, as a poetic, narrative and aesthetic device, is one of the most illuminating issues in the area of ancient religion, for such narratives investigate in various ways fundamental problems that concern all human beings. This volume brings together twenty contributions (six of them to a Roundtable organized by Anton Bierl on myth), originally presented at the Fourth International Conference on the Ancient novel (ICAN IV) held in Lisbon in July 2008. Employing an interdisciplinary approach and putting together different methodological tools (intertextual, psychological, and anthropological), each offers a illuminating investigation of mythical discourse as presented in the text or texts under discussion. The collection as a whole demonstrates the exemplary and transgressive significance of myth and its metaphorical meaning in a genre that to some extent can be considered a modernized and secular form of myth that focuses on the quintessential question of love.

Author / Editor information

Marília P. Futre Pinheiro, University of Lisbon, Portugal; Anton Bierl, University of Basel, Switzerland; Roger Beck, University of Toronto, Canada.

Supplementary Materials

Contents

Topics

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Editors’ Preface and Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	v
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Anton Bierl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Roundtable Myth and the Novel
Myth and the Novel: Introductory Remarks and Comments on the Roundtable Discussion Anton Bierl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	7
Myth in the Novel: Some Observations Jan N. Bremmer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	17
The Literary Myth in the Novel Edmund Cueva Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	24
Myths in the Novel: Gender, Violence and Power Marília P. Futre Pinheiro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	28
Novel and Mythology – Contribution to a Round Table Fritz Graf Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	36
Greek Novel and Local Myth Tim Whitmarsh Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	39
Mythical Repertoire and Its Functions in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses Maaike Zimmerman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	43
Storyline, Poetics and Religion
Love, Mysteries and Literary Tradition: New Experiences and Old Frames Emilio Suárez de la Torre and Enrique Pérez Benito Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	51
The Tale of a Dream: Oneiros and Mythos in the Greek Novel Aglae Massima Valeria Pizzone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	67
From Mystery to Initiation: A Mytho-Ritual Poetics of Love and Sex in the Ancient Novel – even in Apuleius’ Golden Ass? Anton Bierl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	82
From the Legend of Cupid and Psyche to the Novel of Mélusine: Myth, Novel and Twentieth Century Adaptations Giovanni Solinas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	100
Apuleius and Cupid and Psyche: Anthropological, Christian and Philosophical Perspectives
Puella Virgo: Rites of Passage in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses Joanna Atkin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	111
Gnostic Variations on the Tale of Cupid and Psyche Chiara O. Tommasi Moreschini Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	123
Apuleius and Christianity: The Novelist-Philosopher in front of a New Religion Ilaria L. E. Ramelli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	145
Ritual, Myth and Intertextuality
Donkey Gone to Hell: A Katabasis Motif in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses Sonia Sabnis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	177
Iphigenia Revisited: Heliodorus’ Aethiopica and the ‘Der Tod und das Mädchen’ Pattern Anna Lefteratou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	200
‘Non humana viscera sed centies sestertium comesse’ (Petr. Sat. 141,7): Philomela and the Cannibal Heredipetae in the Crotonian Section of Petronius’ Satyricon Paolo Monella Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	223
Religious Imagery, Cult, Mystery and Art
False Fortuna: Religious Imagery and the Painting-Gallery Episode in the Satyricon Mike Lippman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	239
The Bees of Artemis Ephesia and the Apocalyptic Scene in Joseph and Aseneth Maria S. Kasyan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	251
Magic, Comic Reversal and Healing
Shamans and Charlatans: Magic, Mixups, Literary Memory in Apuleius’ Golden Ass Book 3 R. Drew Griffith Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	275
Lucius’s Rose: Symbolic or Sympathetic Cure? Max Nelson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	288
General Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	295
Index locorum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	307
About the Authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	315

Publishing information

Pages and Images/Illustrations in book

eBook published on:

October 29, 2013

eBook ISBN:

9783110311907

Hardcover published on:

October 17, 2013

Hardcover ISBN:

9783110311815

Pages and Images/Illustrations in book

Front matter:

9

Main content:

319

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110311907

eBook ISBN: 9783110311907

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110311815

Keywords for this book

Ancient novel; myth; ritual

Audience(s) for this book

All those interested in Greek and Roman society and mythology.

Safety & product resources

Manufacturer information:
Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Genthiner Straße 13
10785 Berlin
productsafety@degruyterbrill.com

Intende, Lector - Echoes of Myth, Religion and Ritual in the Ancient Novel

Overview

About this book

Author / Editor information

Supplementary Materials

Topics

Table of contents

Bibliographic data