Gnostic Variations on the Tale of Cupid and Psyche

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Editors’ Preface and Acknowledgements v
3. Contents vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Roundtable Myth and the Novel
6. Myth and the Novel: Introductory Remarks and Comments on the Roundtable Discussion 7
7. Myth in the Novel: Some Observations 17
8. The Literary Myth in the Novel 24
9. Myths in the Novel: Gender, Violence and Power 28
10. Novel and Mythology – Contribution to a Round Table 36
11. Greek Novel and Local Myth 39
12. Mythical Repertoire and Its Functions in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses 43
13. Storyline, Poetics and Religion
14. Love, Mysteries and Literary Tradition: New Experiences and Old Frames 51
15. The Tale of a Dream: Oneiros and Mythos in the Greek Novel 67
16. From Mystery to Initiation: A Mytho-Ritual Poetics of Love and Sex in the Ancient Novel – even in Apuleius’ Golden Ass? 82
17. From the Legend of Cupid and Psyche to the Novel of Mélusine: Myth, Novel and Twentieth Century Adaptations 100
18. Apuleius and Cupid and Psyche: Anthropological, Christian and Philosophical Perspectives
19. Puella Virgo: Rites of Passage in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses 111
20. Gnostic Variations on the Tale of Cupid and Psyche 123
21. Apuleius and Christianity: The Novelist-Philosopher in front of a New Religion 145
22. Ritual, Myth and Intertextuality
23. Donkey Gone to Hell: A Katabasis Motif in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses 177
24. Iphigenia Revisited: Heliodorus’ Aethiopica and the ‘Der Tod und das Mädchen’ Pattern 200
25. ‘Non humana viscera sed centies sestertium comesse’ (Petr. Sat. 141,7): Philomela and the Cannibal Heredipetae in the Crotonian Section of Petronius’ Satyricon 223
26. Religious Imagery, Cult, Mystery and Art
27. False Fortuna: Religious Imagery and the Painting-Gallery Episode in the Satyricon 239
28. The Bees of Artemis Ephesia and the Apocalyptic Scene in Joseph and Aseneth 251
29. Magic, Comic Reversal and Healing
30. Shamans and Charlatans: Magic, Mixups, Literary Memory in Apuleius’ Golden Ass Book 3 275
31. Lucius’s Rose: Symbolic or Sympathetic Cure? 288
32. General Index 295
33. Index locorum 307
34. About the Authors 315