The Visibility of the Author in the Ancient Novel

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. Introducing the dynamics of ancient prose 1
5. Part I: Biographic
6. The Strategies of Plutarch’s On the Malice of Herodotus 19
7. Bodily Attributes and Authority: Descriptions of the Body in Suetonius’ Biographies 37
8. Power and paradox in the early writings of Marcus Aurelius and Fronto: ‘biographical sketches’ in laudes and letters 49
9. Part II: Novelistic
10. The autobiography of Encolpius: Reading the Satyrica as the confessions of the firstperson narrator 73
11. The Visibility of the Author in the Ancient Novel 89
12. Apuleius and the Idea of Taste in Classical Antiquity 105
13. The Flowers of the Meadow: Intrageneric Intertextuality in Achilles Tatius 1–2 115
14. Part III: Apologetic
15. The rhetorical construction of heresy in the Church Fathers 133
16. Hagiography and Displacement: City Readers, Desert Scenes 145
17. Biographical sketches of the heretical life: The Panarion of Epiphanius of Salamis 161
18. Part IV: Receptions
19. Psyche amongst the Victorians: An Aspect of Apuleian Reception 177
20. Captured moments: Illustrating Longus’ prose 195
21. List of Contributors 223
22. Bibliography 225
23. General Index 239
24. Index Locorum 245