The Construction of the Real and the Ideal in the Ancient Novel
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The Construction of the Real and the Ideal in the Ancient Novel
About this book
The present volume comprises thirteen of the papers delivered at RICAN 5, which was held in Rethymnon, Crete, on May 25-26, 2009. The theme of the volume, ' The Construction of the Real and the Ideal in the Ancient Novel, ' allows the contributors the freedom to use their skills to examine the real and the ideal either individually or in conjunction or in interaction. The papers offer a wide and rich range of perspectives: a political reading of prose fiction in Late Period Egypt (Selden); the presence of robbers and murderers in ideal fiction (Dowden); the interaction between illusion and reality in novelistic ekphrasis (Zeitlin); divine loves as real precedents for human loves (Rosati); comical elements in Heliodorus' Aethiopika (Doody);myths as paradigms for the inexperienced lovers in the Greek novels (Létoublon); moral ideas in the Odyssey and the Greek novels in relation to moralizing interpretations of Homer (Montiglio); the reality of the basic plot of Callirhoe in the light of historical events and Aristotle's Poetics (Paschalis); the interaction between fictionality and reality in Daphnis and Chloe (Bowie); entrapment and insu fficient understanding of reality in the Satyrica (Labate); fantasy, physical and ideal landscapes in Apuleius' Metamorphoses (König); bridging the gap between Photis (real) and Isis (ideal) in Apuleius (Carver); the gendered aesthetics of the Greek novels viewed through the lens of the mimetic theory of Dionysius of Halicarnassus (Whitmarsh).
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- The Political Economy of Roamnce in Late Period Egypt
- 'But there is a difference in the end,,,': Brigands and Teleology in the Ancient Novel
- Landscapes and Portraits: Signs of the Uncanny and Illusions of the Real
- The Loves of the Gods: Literature as Construction of a Space of Pleasure
- Comedy in Heliodoros' Aithiopika
- Mythological Paradigms in the Greek Novels
- 'His eyes stood as though of horn or steel': Odysseus' Fortitude and Moral Ideals in the Greek Novels
- The Basic Plot of Callirhoe: History, Myrh, and Aristotelian Poetics
- Caging Grasshoppers: Longus' Materials for Weaving 'Reality'
- Tarde, immo iam sero intellexi: The Real as a Puzzle in Petronius' Satyrica
- Landscape and Reality in Apuleius' Metamorphoses
- Between Photis and Isis: Fiction, Reality, and the Ideal in the Golden Ass of Apuleius
- The Erotics of mimesis: Gendered Aethetics in Greek Theory and Fiction
- Abstracts
- Contributors
- Indices