Oxford Readings in the Greek Novel

by Swain, Simon

• ISBN13: 9780198721895
• ISBN10: 0198721897
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-06-24
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This book comprises a new and exciting collection of critical work on the ancient Greek novel. It offers students and researchers twelve of the most influential studies of recent years together with an introduction, by the editor, which explores the nature of the Greek novel in its historicalcontext. The Readings are in two sections. The first examines aspects which are common to several or all of the novels, for example, themes and plots; the portrayal of emotions; the role of the countryside; female readers and characters; and the 'historical novel'. The second section contains studies of thenarrative and plot of Chariton, the genre of and literary responses to Longus, Achilles Tatius' ego-narrative, the narrative technique and message of Heliodorus, and the humour found in Lucian's A True Story. Six of these pieces have been translated for the first time from French, German, andItalian, thereby bringing some of the best of European scholarship to an Anglophone audience. The most important Greek quotations have been rendered into English making these texts easily accessible to readers without Greek.

Table of Contents

Note on the Transliteration of Greek Names	xi
I: Introductory
A Century and More of the Greek Novel	3	(36)
S. Swain
II: General Studies
The Greek Novel	39	(21)
E. L. Bowie
The Conflict of Emotions: A Topos in the Greek Erotic Novel	60	(23)
M. Fusillo
Rural Society in the Greek Novel, or The Country Seen from the Town	83	(25)
S. Said
The Role of Women in the Greek Novel: Woman as Heroine and Reader	108	(29)
B. Egger
Callirhoe and Parthenope: The Beginnings of the Historical Novel	137	(26)
T. Hagg
III: Specific Studies
Theme, Structure and Narrative in Chariton	163	(26)
B. P. Reardon
Longus: Towards a History of Bucolic and its Function in the Roman Empire	189	(21)
B. Effe
The Novel of Longus the Sophist and the Pastoral Tradition	210	(33)
L. Cresci
Achilles Tatius and Ego-Narrative	243	(16)
B. P. Reardon
The Story of Knemon in Heliodoros' Aithiopika	259	(27)
J. R. Morgan
The Mendacity of Kalasiris and the Narrative Strategy of Heliodoros' Aithiopika	286	(65)
J. J. Winkler
The Mirror of the Moon: Lucian's A True Story---From Satire to Utopia	351	(31)
M. Fusillo
Bibliography	382