Love and Providence: Recognition in the Ancient Novel

267 Pages·2012·1.52 MB·English

by  Silvia Montiglio

Love and Providence
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Love and Providence

Recognition in the Ancient Novel
SILVIA MONTIGLIO

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Montiglio, Silvia, 1960–
Love and Providence: Recognition in the ancient novel / Silvia Montiglio.
pages cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-19-991604-7
1. Recognition in literature. 2. Greek fi ction—History and criticism.
3. Latin fi ction—History and criticism. I. Title.
PA3015.R38M658 2012
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To Gareth
Ubi tu Trimalchio, ego Fortunata
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CONTENTS

Preface and Acknowledgments i x
Introduction
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1. True Love and Immediate Recognition
16
CALLIRHOE : SOMETHING IN THE WAY SHE BREATHES 16
THE EPHESIACA : SLOW AND QUICK EYES 47
2. Beauty, Dress, and Identity
65
LEUCIPPE AND CLITOPHON : TEASING EXPECTATIONS 65
DAPHNIS AND CHLOE: TOO BEAUTIFUL TO BE SHEPHERDS 8 6
3. Reading Identity: Recognitions in the Aethiopica
106
FIRST, MISIDENTIFICATIONS 106
THE RECOGNITION OF CHARICLEA 125
READING RECOGNITIONS 152
4. A Gift of Providence? Recognitions in Two Roman Novels
159
THE SATYRICA : RECOGNITION AND CAPTURE 159
THE GOLDEN ASS : RECOGNITION AND RETURN 1 63
5. From the Pagan Novels to Early Jewish and Christian Narratives:
Refashioning Recognition
190
“TELLING MY WHOLE LIFE WITH HIS WORDS”: RECOGNITIONS IN
APOLLONIUS OF TYRE 190
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“WHO ARE YOU?” JOSEPH AND ASENETH , OR IT IS IMPOSSIBLE
TO RECOGNIZE A CONVERT 202
RECOGNITION OF FAMILY AND RECOGNITION OF GOD IN
THE PSEUDO-CLEMENTINE RECOGNITIONS 210
DRESS AND RECOGNITION: A NOVELISTIC MOTIF
BECOMES CHRISTIAN 222
Epilogue: Th e Ancient Novel in the History of the Recognition Motif
225
TRA GEDY AND COMEDY 225
FUTURE INFLUENCES: HIGHLIGHTS 230
Bibliography 2 41
Index 253
PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Many friends and colleagues have been behind this book. John Morgan encour-
aged me to pursue the topic at an early stage. Ewen Bowie, Luca Graverini, Judith
Perkins, and the anonymous readers for Oxford University Press have read draft s
of the whole or individual chapters and off ered valuable comments. I also wish
to thank, for various reasons, Jeff rey Beneker, Alain Billault, Jenny Strauss Clay,
Stephen Harrison, Regina Höschele, Anna Left eratou, Patrizia Liviabella Furiani,
Jim McKeown, John Morgan, Christopher Pelling, Laurence Plazenet, Consuelo
Ruiz-Montero, Walter Stephens, Gonda Van Steen, Robert Wagman, Tim
Whitmarsh, and Maaike Zimmerman. Audiences at the Universities of Toronto,
Pennsylvania, Th essalonica, and Virginia, at the College of Charleston, and at
the Georg-August-Universität Gött ingen have patiently listened to sections of
this project and stimulated my thinking. Th ank you. My gratitude also goes to
Don Judes, Resources Librarian at Th e Johns Hopkins University, to the Univer-
sity for granting me a sabbatical leave during which I completed the book, to
Stefan Vranka at Oxford University Press for his support and sharp judgments,
and to the staff of the Press for their help in seeing this book through to the end.
I have adopted the Latinate spelling of Greek names, and modifi ed transla-
tions and citations accordingly. All the Greek and Latin is translated or closely
paraphrased. Translations of C allirhoe , the Ephesiaca , Leucippe and Clitophon ,
the A ethiopica , and A pollonius of Tyre are borrowed, but sometimes adapted,
from Reardon (2008 [1989]). For Daphnis and Chloe I have used Morgan
(2004), for Petronius Heseltine (revised by Warmington, 1969), and for
A puleius Hanson 1989. I have chosen these translations, though oft en they are
not literal, because of their liveliness, with an eye to readers with no Greek or
Latin. Translations of other texts are mine unless otherwise stated.
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