Cultural crossroads in the ancient novel / edited by Marília P. Futre Pinheiro, David Konstan and Bruce Duncan MacQueen.

Ponencias presentadas en la IV International Conference on the Ancient Novel, Lisboa, 2008.

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Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índices.

Introduction / David Konstan -- Mapping the World in the Ancient Novel -- Sailing from Massalia, or Mapping Out the Significance of Encolpius’ Travels in the Satyrica / Gottskálk Jensson -- Xenophon’s ‘Round Trip’: Geography as Narrative Consistency in the Ephesiaka / Andrea Capra -- Permeable Worlds in Iamblichus’s Babyloniaka / Dimitri Kasprzyk -- Babylonian Stories and the Ancient Novel: Magi and the Limits of Empire in Iamblichus’ Babyloniaka / Catherine Connors -- Theama Kainon: Reading Natural History in Achilles Tatius’ Leucippe and Clitophon / Ashli Jane Elizabeth Baker -- The Dialogic Imagination -- Fortunata and Terentia: A Model for Trimalchio’s Wife / Shannon N. Byrne -- Elements of Ancient Novel and Novella in Tacitus / Christoph Kugelmeier -- ‘A mirror carried along a high road’? Reflections on (and of) Society in the Greek Novel / Sophie Lalanne -- The Heroikos of Philostratus: A Novel of Heroes, and more / Francesca Mestre and Pilar Gómez -- Springs as a Civilizing Mechanism in Daphnis and Chloe / Janelle Peters -- Arcadia Revisited: Material Gardens and Virtual Spaces in Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe and in Roman Landscape Painting / Martina Meyer -- Narrating Voyages to Heaven and Hell: Seneca, Apuleius, and Bakhtin’s Menippea / H. Christian Blood -- Turning Points in Scholarship on the Ancient Novel -- Copyists’ Versions and the Readership of the Greek Novel / Manuel Sanz Morales -- Clues from the Papyri: Structure and Style of Chariton’s Novel / Marina F. A. Martelli -- New Evidence For Dating The Discovery At Traù Of The Petronian Cena Trimalchionis / Nicola Pace -- Bologna as Hypata: Annotation, Transformation, and Transl(oc)ation in the Circles of Filippo Beroaldo and Francesco Colonna / Robert H. F. Carver -- The First Japanese Translation of Daphnis & Chloe / Saiichiro Nakatani -- Boundaries: Geographical and Metaphorical -- Refiguring the Animal/Human Divide in Apuleius and Heliodorus / Ellen Finkelpearl -- Eros the Cheese Maker: A Food Studies Approach to Daphnis and Chloe / Mary Jaeger -- Rethinking Landscape in Ancient Fiction: Mountains in Apuleius and Jerome / Jason König -- Kangaroo Courts: Displaced Justice in the Roman Novel / John Bodel -- Character and Emotion in the Ancient Novel -- Pity vs. Forgiveness in Pagan and Judaeo-Christian Narratives / David Konstan -- The Interaction of Emotions in the Greek Novels / Michael Cummings -- A Critique of Curiosity: Magic and Fiction in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses / Cristiana Sogno -- Spectacles of a Dormant Soul: A Reading of Plato’s Gyges and Apuleius’ Lucius / Vered Lev Kenaan -- Why doesn’t Habrocomes run away from Aegialeus and his Mummified Wife?: Horror and the Ancient Novel / Edmund P. Cueva.

The protagonists of the ancient novels wandered or were carried off to distant lands, from Italy in the west to Persia in the east and Ethiopia in the south; the authors themselves came, or pretended to come, from remote places such as Aphrodisia and Phoenicia; and the novelistic form had antecedents in a host of classical genres. These intersections are explored in this volume. Papers in the first section discuss “mapping the world in the novels.” The second part looks at the dialogical imagination, and the conversation between fiction and history in the novels. Section 3 looks at the way ancient fiction has been transmitted and received. Space, as the locus of cultural interaction and exchange, is the topic of the fourth part. The fifth and final section is devoted to character and emotion, and how these are perceived or constructed in ancient fiction. Overall, a rich picture is offered of the many spatial and cultural dimensions in a variety of ancient fictional genres.