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Introduction ..................................................................................... xi
1. Preface ................................................................................
Gareth Schmeling, Professor of Classics
University of Florida
2. The Genre: Novels Proper and the Fringe .................................. 11
Niklas Holzberg, Professor of Classics
Universitat Miinchen
3. The Rise of the Greek Novel ................................................... 29
Consuelo Ruiz-Montero, Professor of Classics
Universidad de Murcia
4. The Ancient Readers of the Greek Novels ................................... 87
Ewen Bowie, Fellow and Tutor in Classics
Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and University
Lecturer in Classical Languages and Literature
5. Popular and Sophisticated in the Ancient Novel ........................... 107
Graham Anderson
University of Kent at Canterbury
6. Characterization in the Ancient Novel ....................................... 115
Alain Billault, Professor
Universit6 Jean Moulin, Lyon
7. Mystery Religions, Aretalogy and the Ancient Novel .................... 131
Roger Beck, Professor of Classics
University of Toronto
8. Women in the Ancient Novel .................................................. 151
Renate Johne, Fellow of the Research Group of
the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, Berlin
9. A Study on the Margin of the Ancient Novel
"Barbarians" and Others ........................................ ..... 209
Heinrich Kuch, Berlin
10. The Social and Economic Structures of the Ancient Novels .......... 221
Antonio M. Scarcella, Professor of Classics
Universita degli Studi di Perugia
11. Moder Critical Theories and the Ancient Novel ......................... 277
Massimo Fusillo, Professor of Classics
Universita degli Studi di Messina
12. Major Authors: Greek and Roman .......................................... 307
Greek
A. Chariton .................................................................................. 309
B.P. Reardon, Professor Emeritus of Classics
University of California-Irvine
B. Xenophon of Ephesus ........................................ 336
Bernhard Kytzler, Professor of Classics
University of Natal, Durban
C. Longus, Daphnis and Chloe ................................................ 361
Richard Hunter, University Lecturer in Classics and
Fellow of Pembroke College, Cambridge
D. Achilles Tatius ................................................ 387
Karl Plepelits, Graz
E. Heliodoros ............................................................................. 417
J.R. Morgan, Lecturer in Classics
University of Wales, Swansea
Roman
F. The Satyrica of Petronius ........................................ 457
Gareth Schmeling, Professor of Classics
University of Florida
G. Apuleius' Metamorphoses ................................................... 491
SJ. Harrison, Fellow and Tutor in Classics
Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and University
Lecturer in Classical Languages and Literature
H. Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri .......................................... 517
Gareth Schmeling, Professor of Classics
University of Florida
13. Novel-like Works of Extended Prose Fiction I
A. Lucian's Verae Historiae .................................. ........ 555
Graham Anderson
University of Kent at Canterbury
B. The Truth and Nothing but the Truth Dictys and Dares ........ 563
Stefan Merkle
Ludwig Maximillians Universitat, Mtinchen
C. Xenophon of Athens: the Cyropaedia .................................... 581
Bodil Due, Fellow of the Danish Academy in Rome
D. The Metamorphoses of the Alexander Romance ................. 601
Richard Stoneman
Institute of Classical Studies, London
E. Philostratus on Apollonius of Tyana: the Unpredictable
on the Unfathomable ........................................ 613
Graham Anderson
University of Kent at Canterbury
14. Novel-like Works of Extended Prose Fiction II ........................... 619
Niklas Holzberg, Professor of Classics
Universitat Miinchen
A. Utopias and Fantastic Travel: Euhemerus, ambulus ................ 621
B. History: Ctesias . ....................................... 629
C. Fable: Aesop. Life of Aesop ........................................ 633
D. Rhetoric: Dio Chrysostom ........................................ 640
E. Letters: Chion ...................................................... 645
15. Fragments of Lost Novels ........................................ 655
Susan Stephens, Professor of Classics
Stanford University
16. The Ancient Novel Becomes Christian ........................................ 685
Richard Pervo, Professor of New Testament
and Patristics, Seabury-Western Theological Seminary,
Evanston
17. The Byzantine Revival of the Ancient Novel ............................. 713
Roderick Beaton, Professor of Modern Greek and
Byzantine History, Language and Literature,
King's College, London
18. The Heritage of the Ancient Greek Novel in France and Britain 735
Gerald Sandy, Professor of Classics
University of British Columbia
19. The Nachleben of the Ancient Novel in Iberian Literature
in the Sixteenth Century ........................................ .... 775
M. Futre Pinheiro, Professor of Classics
University of Lisbon
20. Maps ........................................................ 801
Jean Alvares, Assistant Professor of Classics
Franklin and Marshall College, Lancaster
A. The World of the Ancient Novels
B. Chariton-Chaireas and Callirhoe
C. Xenophon of EphesusAn Ephesian Tale
D. Achilles Tatius-Leucippe and Clitophon
E. Heliodorus-An Ethiopian Tale
F. Petronius-The Satyricon
G. Apollonius King of Tyre
H. Homer- he Odyssey
I. Apollonius of Rhodes-Voyage of the Argo
J. Virgil-The Aeneid
K. Paul's Journey to Rome
L. Travelers to the Holy Land
Bibliography ....................................................... 815
Index ....... ...................................................................... 865
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Classical fiction History and criticism, Civilization, Ancient, in literature