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MythosEikonPoiesis
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Intende, Lector
Echoes of Myth,
Religion and Ritual
in the Ancient Novel
Editedby
MaríliaP.FutrePinheiro,AntonBierl
andRogerBeck
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Editors’ Preface and Acknowledgements
Thiscollectionpresentsaselectionoffourteenpapersandsevencontributionsto
aRoundtableoriginallypresentedattheFourthInternationalConferenceonthe
AncientNovel(ICANIV),whichwasheldattheFundaçãoCalousteGulbenkian,
in Lisbon, from 21–26 July 2008. In particular, the volume explores the connec-
tionsbetweenmyth,religionandritualontheonehandandtheancientnovelon
theother.Despitetherecentandintensifiedscholarlyinterestinthefieldofmyth
and ritual, inquiry into major shifts in mythical and ritual poetics is still in a
preliminarystage.Theessaysinthiscollectionadvanceourunderstandingcon-
siderablyastheyprobetheintersectionsofmythandritualwiththeplotsofthe
novels.Topicsincludesuchissuessuchaspoeticsandintertextuality;myth,rite
and magic; rites of passage, gendered ambiguities and transgression; morality
and religiosity; narrative, folktale and performance. Despite the variety of texts
examined, one common purpose is the effort to question the assumption that
myth and ritual are a mere underlying religious basis, and to focus instead on
howtheyinfluenceandshapetheplotofthenovel.
Firstofall,Marília FutrePinheirotakestheopportunitytoexpressherutmost
gratitude to her fellow editors, Anton Bierl and Roger Beck, for their accurate
readingandeditingofthepapers,andfortheirfriendly,collegialandcontinuous
supportduringthelongprocessofpreparingthisvolume.Specialthanksarealso
due to our conference sponsors. In the impossibility of naming them all, we
thank, inthe personof the President of the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Dr.
RuiVilar,allthosewhocontributedtomakingICAN2008asuccess.
Ateamofkey-notespeakersofICANIVtogetherwithMaríliaFutrePinheiro
was responsible for the selection of the contributions to the different themes.
Consequently, all articles assembled in this volume were already carefully re-
viewedbeforetheyweredeliveredinLisbonin2008.
Aftertheconference,MaríliaFutrePinheiropickedAntonBierlasco-editorof
theareaMyth,RitualandReligion.SoonafterwardsbothdecidedtocooptRoger
Beck.MaríliaFutrePinheiroandRogerBecktogetherwithAntonBierlchosethe
selectionofthearticlesforthisvolume.
MaríliaFutrePinheiroandRogerBeck,incorrespondencewiththeauthors,
madenumeroussuggestionsforimprovementsandcuts.Theywishtothankthe
authorsfortheirpatienceandcooperation.
After the conference, Marília Futre Pinheiro picked Anton Bierl as co-editor
of the area Myth, Ritual and Religion. Soon afterwards both decided to coopt
Roger Beck. Marília Futre Pinheiro and Roger Beck together with Anton Bierl
made the selection of the articles for this volume. In correspondence with the
authors, they made numerous suggestions for improvements and cuts. They
VI Editors’PrefaceandAcknowledgements
wish to express their thanks to the authors for their patience, cooperation and
carefulreviewing.
ThanksarealsoduetoAlisonSmith,whofurthereditedtheEnglishbothof
AntonBierl’sRoundtableandofhisothercontributiontothevolume,aswellas
toAnn-KathrinStähleandAustinDiaz,bothstudentassistantsofAntonBierlin
Basel, who carefully read the manuscript for style, especially in the bibliogra-
phies, and for the English, again respectively. We further thank Katharina Le-
gutke,ProjectEditorClassicalandAncientNearEasternStudiesatdeGruyter,for
supportingthepublicationprocess,aswellasMr.FlorianRuppensteinforprodu-
cingthisvolume.
Lastbutnotleast,MaríliaFutrePinheiroandRogerBeckwishtothanktheir
fellow editor, Anton Bierl, for kindly volunteering to publish this work in his
seriesMythosEikonPoiesis.
MaríliaP.FutrePinheiro
AntonBierl
RogerBeck
Contents
AntonBierl
Introduction 1
RoundtableMythandtheNovel
AntonBierl
MythandtheNovel:IntroductoryRemarksandCommentsontheRoundtable
Discussion 7
JanN.Bremmer
MythintheNovel:SomeObservations 17
EdmundCueva
TheLiteraryMythintheNovel 24
MaríliaP.FutrePinheiro
MythsintheNovel:Gender,ViolenceandPower 28
FritzGraf
NovelandMythology–ContributiontoaRoundTable 36
TimWhitmarsh
GreekNovelandLocalMyth 39
MaaikeZimmerman
MythicalRepertoireandItsFunctionsinApuleius’Metamorphoses 43
Storyline,PoeticsandReligion
EmilioSuárezdelaTorreandEnriquePérezBenito
Love,MysteriesandLiteraryTradition:NewExperiencesandOldFrames 51
AglaeMassimaValeriaPizzone
TheTaleofaDream:OneirosandMythosintheGreekNovel 67
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AntonBierl
FromMysterytoInitiation:AMytho-RitualPoeticsofLoveandSexintheAncient
Novel–eveninApuleius’GoldenAss? 82
GiovanniSolinas
FromtheLegendofCupidandPsychetotheNovelofMélusine:Myth,Noveland
TwentiethCenturyAdaptations 100
ApuleiusandCupidandPsyche:Anthropological,ChristianandPhilosophical
Perspectives
JoannaAtkin
PuellaVirgo:RitesofPassageinApuleius’Metamorphoses 111
ChiaraO.TommasiMoreschini
GnosticVariationsontheTaleofCupidandPsyche 123
IlariaL.E.Ramelli
ApuleiusandChristianity:TheNovelist-PhilosopherinfrontofaNew
Religion 145
Ritual,MythandIntertextuality
SoniaSabnis
DonkeyGonetoHell:AKatabasisMotifinApuleius’Metamorphoses 177
AnnaLefteratou
IphigeniaRevisited:Heliodorus’Aethiopicaandthe‘DerTodunddasMädchen’
Pattern 200
PaoloMonella
‘Nonhumanaviscerasedcentiessestertiumcomesse’(Petr.Sat.141,7):
PhilomelaandtheCannibalHeredipetaeintheCrotonianSectionofPetronius’
Satyricon 223
TableofContents IX
ReligiousImagery,Cult,MysteryandArt
MikeLippman
FalseFortuna:ReligiousImageryandthePainting-GalleryEpisodeinthe
Satyricon 239
MariaS.Kasyan
TheBeesofArtemisEphesiaandtheApocalypticSceneinJosephand
Aseneth 251
Magic,ComicReversalandHealing
R.DrewGriffith
ShamansandCharlatans:Magic,Mixups,LiteraryMemoryinApuleius’Golden
AssBook3 271
MaxNelson
Lucius’sRose:SymbolicorSympatheticCure? 284
GeneralIndex 295
Indexlocorum 307
AbouttheAuthors 315
