Echoing Narratives: Studies of Intertextuality in Greek and Roman Prose Fiction

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Intertextuality has been recognised as an important feature of ancient prose fiction and yet it has only received sporadic attention in modern scholarship, despite the recent explosion of interest in the ancient novels. This volume is intended to make a contribution towards filling this gap by drawing attention to, and throwing fresh light on, the presence in ancient Greek and Roman narratives of earlier literary echoes. While one volume is by no means sufficient to remedy the problem of the relative lack of ...
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Overview

Intertextuality has been recognised as an important feature of ancient prose fiction and yet it has only received sporadic attention in modern scholarship, despite the recent explosion of interest in the ancient novels. This volume is intended to make a contribution towards filling this gap by drawing attention to, and throwing fresh light on, the presence in ancient Greek and Roman narratives of earlier literary echoes. While one volume is by no means sufficient to remedy the problem of the relative lack of scholarship on the topic, nevertheless it is hoped that the present collection will create scope for debate and will generate greater scholarly interest in this area. Most of the articles collected here originated in the colloquium 'The Ancient Novel and its Reception of Earlier Literature', which was held at University College Cork in August 2007. They investigate the interconnection between Graeco-Roman narratives and earlier or contemporary works, and consider ways in which intertextual exploration is invited from the readers of these texts. What prompts the reader to associate a passage with an earlier text? What triggers in a text the evocation of motifs from antecedent literature? How might we interpret an identified allusion? In what ways can intertextuality function as a device of characterisation? These are among the questions explored by the chapters in this volume, which concentrate on the 'canonical' Greek romances and the Roman novels but also cover other novel-like works, such as the Alexander Romance and Alexander's Letter to Aristotle About India, and the Story of Apollonius King of Tyre.
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  • ISBN-13: 9789077922859
  • Publisher: Barkhuis Publishing
  • Publication date: 1/15/2011
  • Series: Ancient Narrative Supplementum Series , #13
  • Edition description: Bilingual
  • Pages: 210
  • Product dimensions: 6.80 (w) x 9.40 (h) x 0.90 (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction VII

Less than Ideal Paradigms in the Greek Novel Koen De Temmerman Kristoffel Demoen 1

Forensic Oratory and Rhetorical Theory in Chariton Book 5 Konstantin Doulamis 21

The Literary Context of Anithia's Dream in Xenophon's Ephesiaca Maria-Elpiniki Oikonomou 49

Petronius and Virgil: Contextual and Intertextual Readings Michael Paschalis 73

Platonic Love and Erotic Education in Longus' Daphnis and Chloe Ian Repath 99

'larvale simulacrum': Platonic Socrates and the Persona of Socrates in Apuleius, Metamorphoses 1,1-19 Maeve O'Brien 123

Poets and Shephereds: Philetas and Longus J. R. Morgan 139

The Rhetoric of Otherness: Geography, Historiography and Zoology in Alexander's Letter about India and the Alexander Romance Elias Koulakiotis 161

The Divided Cloak in the Historia Apollonii regis Tyri: Further Thoughts Stelios Panayotakis 185

Abstracts of articles included in the volume 201

List of contributors 205

Indices 207

Index locorum 207

General index 208

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