Cultural Crossroads in the Ancient Novel

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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. Acknowledgements Table of Contents Introduction Mapping the World in the Ancient Novel Sailing from Massalia, or Mapping Out the Significance of Encolpius’ Travels in the Satyrica Xenophon’s ‘Round Trip’: Geography as Narrative Consistency in the Ephesiaka Permeable Worlds in Iamblichus’s Babyloniaka Babylonian Stories and the Ancient Novel: Magi and the Limits of Empire in Iamblichus’ Babyloniaka Theama Kainon: Reading Natural History in Achilles Tatius’ Leucippe and Clitophon The Dialogic Imagination Fortunata and Terentia: A Model for Trimalchio’s Wife Elements of Ancient Novel and Novella in Tacitus ‘A mirror carried along a high road’? Reflections on (and of) Society in the Greek Novel The Heroikos of Philostratus: A Novel of Heroes, and more Springs as a Civilizing Mechanism in Daphnis and Chloe Arcadia Revisited: Material Gardens and Virtual Spaces in Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe and in Roman Landscape Painting Narrating Voyages to Heaven and Hell: Seneca, Apuleius, and Bakhtin’s Menippea Turning Points in Scholarship on the Ancient Novel Copyists’ Versions and the Readership of the Greek Novel Clues from the Papyri: Structure and Style of Chariton’s Novel New Evidence For Dating The Discovery At Traù Of The Petronian Cena Trimalchionis Bologna as Hypata: Annotation, Transformation, and Transl(oc)ation in the Circles of Filippo Beroaldo and Francesco Colonna The First Japanese Translation of Daphnis & Chloe Boundaries: Geographical and Metaphorical Refiguring the Animal/Human Divide in Apuleius and Heliodorus Eros the Cheese Maker: A Food Studies Approach to Daphnis and Chloe Rethinking Landscape in Ancient Fiction: Mountains in Apuleius and Jerome Kangaroo Courts: Displaced Justice in the Roman Novel Character and Emotion in the Ancient Novel Pity vs. Forgiveness in Pagan and Judaeo-Christian Narratives The Interaction of Emotions in the Greek Novels A Critique of Curiosity: Magic and Fiction in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses Spectacles of a Dormant Soul: A Reading of Plato’s Gyges and Apuleius’ Lucius Why doesn’t Habrocomes run away from Aegialeus and his Mummified Wife?: Horror and the Ancient Novel List of Contributors Index nominum et rerum Index locorum