List of Contributors

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Table of Contents VII
4. Introduction 1
5. Mapping the World in the Ancient Novel
6. Sailing from Massalia, or Mapping Out the Significance of Encolpius’ Travels in the Satyrica 7
7. Xenophon’s ‘Round Trip’: Geography as Narrative Consistency in the Ephesiaka 17
8. Permeable Worlds in Iamblichus’s Babyloniaka 29
9. Babylonian Stories and the Ancient Novel: Magi and the Limits of Empire in Iamblichus’ Babyloniaka 39
10. Theama Kainon: Reading Natural History in Achilles Tatius’ Leucippe and Clitophon 51
11. The Dialogic Imagination
12. Fortunata and Terentia: A Model for Trimalchio’s Wife 65
13. Elements of Ancient Novel and Novella in Tacitus 79
14. ‘A mirror carried along a high road’? Reflections on (and of) Society in the Greek Novel 93
15. The Heroikos of Philostratus: A Novel of Heroes, and more 107
16. Springs as a Civilizing Mechanism in Daphnis and Chloe 123
17. Arcadia Revisited: Material Gardens and Virtual Spaces in Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe and in Roman Landscape Painting 143
18. Narrating Voyages to Heaven and Hell: Seneca, Apuleius, and Bakhtin’s Menippea 163
19. Turning Points in Scholarship on the Ancient Novel
20. Copyists’ Versions and the Readership of the Greek Novel 183
21. Clues from the Papyri: Structure and Style of Chariton’s Novel 195
22. New Evidence For Dating The Discovery At Traù Of The Petronian Cena Trimalchionis 209
23. Bologna as Hypata: Annotation, Transformation, and Transl(oc)ation in the Circles of Filippo Beroaldo and Francesco Colonna 221
24. The First Japanese Translation of Daphnis & Chloe 239
25. Boundaries: Geographical and Metaphorical
26. Refiguring the Animal/Human Divide in Apuleius and Heliodorus 251
27. Eros the Cheese Maker: A Food Studies Approach to Daphnis and Chloe 263
28. Rethinking Landscape in Ancient Fiction: Mountains in Apuleius and Jerome 277
29. Kangaroo Courts: Displaced Justice in the Roman Novel 291
30. Character and Emotion in the Ancient Novel
31. Pity vs. Forgiveness in Pagan and Judaeo-Christian Narratives 305
32. The Interaction of Emotions in the Greek Novels 315
33. A Critique of Curiosity: Magic and Fiction in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses 327
34. Spectacles of a Dormant Soul: A Reading of Plato’s Gyges and Apuleius’ Lucius 341
35. Why doesn’t Habrocomes run away from Aegialeus and his Mummified Wife?: Horror and the Ancient Novel 361
36. List of Contributors 377
37. Index nominum et rerum 381
38. Index locorum 389