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| Author's note | ||
| 1 | The Genre | 1 |
| A conventional plot: Xenophon's Ephesiaca | 1 | |
| The surviving texts | 6 | |
| Ancient labels | 8 | |
| Characteristics of the idealistic and comic-realistic novels | 9 | |
| The fringe: other novel-like literature of antiquity | 11 | |
| A definition of the genre | 26 | |
| 2 | The Rise of the Genre | 28 |
| Theories on the origins | 28 | |
| The novel as a product of political, social and cultural upheavals | 29 | |
| The novel as 'closet drama' and 'bourgeois prose epic' | 32 | |
| The novel's ancient readership | 33 | |
| Novel and historiography | 35 | |
| Ninus | 38 | |
| Sesonchosis | 39 | |
| A genre is born | 41 | |
| 3 | The Idealistic Novel in Early Imperial Times | 43 |
| Chariton, Callirhoe | 43 | |
| Other novels in historical dress: Parthenope, Chione, Calligone | 48 | |
| A string of adventures: Xenophon of Ephesus, Ephesiaca | 51 | |
| Lollianus, Phoenicica | 54 | |
| An attempt to diversify: Antonius Diogenes, The Wonders Beyond Thule | 57 | |
| 4 | The Comic-Realistic Novel | 61 |
| A Greek comic-realistic novel in prose and verse: Iolaus | 62 | |
| Topsy-turvy world: Petronius, Satyrica | 63 | |
| Appearances and reality: the Greek Ass Romance | 72 | |
| Satire, Platonism and mysteries: Apuleius, Metamorphoses | 77 | |
| 5 | The Idealistic Novel in the Age of the Second Sophistic | 84 |
| Wallowing in lurid effects: Iamblichus, Babyloniaca | 85 | |
| Adding the human touch: Achilles Tatius, Leucippe and Clitophon | 87 | |
| Sexual psychology and bucolic paradise: Longus, Daphnis and Chloe | 93 | |
| Acme of narrative technique: Heliodorus, Aethiopica | 99 | |
| Select bibliography | 106 | |
| Index | 127 |
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $99.99 | Digital |
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Wayne Gray
reviewed Ancient Novel on March 02, 2016 Ancient Novel
This is probably the most remarkable book I've ever read on this subject. Leaves English scholars of the same subject in the dust. A brain-bending series of exercises in thinking about how texts think with and through other texts.
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