Table of Contents
Introduction Anton Bierl 1
Round table Myth and the Novel
Myth and the Novel: Introductory Remarks and Comments on the Roundtable Discussion Anton Bierl 7
Myth in the Novel: Some Observations Jan N. Bremmer 17
The Literary Myth in the Novel Edmund Cueva 24
Myths in the Novel: Gender, Violence and Power Marília P. Futre Pinheiro 28
Novel and Mythology - Contribution to a Round Table Fritz Graf 36
Greek Novel and Local Myth Tim Whitmarsh 39
Mythical Repertoire and Its Functions in Apuleius' Metamorphoses Maaike Zimmerman 43
Storyline, Poetics and Religion
Love, Mysteries and Literary Tradition: New Experiences and Old Frames Emilio Suárez de la Torre Enrique Pérez Benito 51
The Tale of a Dream: Oneiros and Mythos in the Greek Novel Aglae Massima Valeria Pizzone 67
From Mystery to Initiation: A Mytho-Ritual Poetics of Love and Sex in the Ancient Novel - even in Apuleius' Golden Ass? Anton Bierl 82
From the Legend of Cupid and Psyche to the Novel of Melusine: Myth, Novel and Twentieth Century Adaptations Giovanni Solinas 100
Apuleius and Cupid and Psyche: Anthropological, Christian and Philosophical Perspectives
Puella Virgo: Rites of Passage in Apuleius' Metamorphoses Joanna Atkin 111
Gnostic Variations on the Tale of Cupid and Psyche Chiara O. Tommasi Moreschini 123
Apuleius and Christianity: The Novelist-Philosopher in front of a New Religion Ilaria L. E. Ramelli 145
Ritual, Myth and Intertextuality
Donkey Gone to Hell: A Katabasis Motif in Apuleius' Metamorphoses Sonia Sabnis 177
Iphigenia Revisited: Hellodorus' Aethiopica and the 'Der Tod und das Mädchen' Pattern Anna Lefteratou 200
'Non humana viscera sed centies sestertium comesse' (Petr. Sat. 141,7): Philomela and the Cannibal Heredipetae in the Crotonian Section of Petronius' Satyricon Paolo Monell 223
Religious Imagery, Cult, Mystery and Art
False Fortuna: Religious Imagery and the Painting-Gallery Episode in the Satyricon Mike Lippman 239
The Bees of Artemis Ephesia and the Apocalyptic Scene in Joseph and Aseneth Maria S. Kasyan 251
Magic, Comic Reversal and Healing
Shamans and Charlatans: Magic, Mixups, Literary Memory in Apuleius' Golden Ass Book 3 R. Drew Griffith 271
Lucius's Rose: Symbolic or Sympathetic Cure? Max Nelson 284
General Index 295
Index locorum 307
About the Authors 315
