The Cambridge Companion to the Greek and Roman Novel

400 Pages·2008·1.96 MB·English

by  Tim Whitmarsh

the cambridge companion to
the greek and roman novel
TheGreekandRomannovelsofPetronius,Apuleius,Longus,Heliodorusand
others have been cherished for millennia, but never more so than now. The
Cambridge Companion to the Greek and Roman Novel contains nineteen
original essays by an international cast of experts in the field. The emphasis
isuponthecriticalinterpretationofthetextswithinhistoricalsettings,both
in antiquity and in the later generations that have been and continue to be
inspiredbythem.Allthecentralissuesofcurrentscholarshipareaddressed:
sexuality,culturalidentity,class,religion,politics,narrative,style,readership
andmuchmore.Foursectionscoverculturalcontextofthenovels,theircon-
tents,literaryformandtheirreceptioninclassicalantiquityandbeyond.Each
chapter includes guidance on further reading. This collection will be essen-
tialforscholarsandstudents,aswellasforotherswhowantanup-to-date,
accessibleintroductionintothisexhilaratingmaterial.
Acompletelistofbooksintheseriesisatthebackofthebook.
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THE CAMBRIDGE
COMPANION TO
THE GREEK AND
ROMAN NOVEL
EDITED BY
TIM WHITMARSH
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CONTENTS
Notesoncontributors page viii
Acknowledgements xii
Listofabbreviations xiii
Map xvi
1 Introduction 1
tim whitmarsh
PART I: CONTEXTS
2 Literarymilieux 17
ewen bowie
3 Thehistoryofsexuality 39
helen morales
4 Culturalidentity 56
susan stephens
5 Class 72
tim whitmarsh
PART II: THE WORLD OF THE NOVEL
6 Religion 91
froma zeitlin
7 Travel 109
james romm
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8 Bodyandtext 127
jason ko¨nig
9 Time 145
lawrence kim
10 Politicsandspectacles 162
catherine connors
PART III: FORM
11 Genre 185
simon goldhill
12 Approachingstyleandrhetoric 201
andrew laird
13 Intertextuality 218
john morgan and stephen harrison
14 Narrative 237
tim whitmarsh and shadi bartsch
PART IV: RECEPTION
15 Ancientreaders 261
richard hunter
16 Byzantinereaders 272
joan b. burton
17 There-emergenceofancientnovelsinwesternEurope,1300–1810 282
michael reeve
18 Novelsancientandmodern 299
gerald sandy and stephen harrison
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19 Modernityandpost-modernity 321
massimo fusillo
340
References
377
BibliographicalappendixonPierreHuet
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IndexofGreekandRomannovelists
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Generalindex
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NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS
shadi bartschistheAnnL.andLawrenceB.ButtenwieserProfessorofClassics
at the University of Chicago. Her first book was Decoding the Ancient Novel:
theReaderandtheRoleofDescriptioninHeliodorusandAchillesTatius(1989).
Sincethenshehaspublishedwidely,notablyonearlyimperialculture(Actorsin
theAudience:TheatricalityandDoublespeakfromNerotoHadrian(1994))and
theRomanpoetLucan(IdeologyinColdBlood:aReadingofLucan’sCivilWar
(1997)).HermostrecentbookisTheMirroroftheSelf:Sexuality,Self-knowledge,
andtheGazeintheEarlyRomanEmpire(2006).
ewen bowiewasuntilhisretirementin2007theE.P.WarrenPraelectorinClassics
atCorpusChristiCollegeandProfessorofClassicalLanguagesandLiteratureat
theUniversityofOxford.Hehaspublishedextensively,foralmostfortyyears,on
thenovelsandtheliterarycultureofRomanGreece.Heispreparingacommentary
onLongus’DaphnisandChloe.
joan b. burtonisProfessorandChairofClassicalStudiesatTrinityUniversity,
SanAntonio.ShehaspublishedTheocritus’sUrbanMimes:Mobility,Gender,and
Patronage(1995)andAByzantineNovel:DrosillaandCharikles,aBilingualEdi-
tion (2004), as well as articles and book chapters on Hellenistic and Byzantine
literatureandculture.
catherine connorsisAssociateProfessorintheDepartmentofClassicsatthe
UniversityofWashington,Seattle,andistheauthorofPetroniusthePoet:Verse
andLiteraryTraditionintheSatyricon(1998).Shehasalsopublishedarticleson
theancientnovelanditsreception,andonRomanepic,comedyandsatire.Her
current research focuses on representations of nature and geography in literary
texts.
massimo fusilloisProfessorofLiteraryCriticismandComparativeLiterature
at the University of L’Aquila. His interests range from ancient narrative to the
modernreceptionofclassicalliteratures.HehaswrittenontheGreeknovel(espe-
ciallyIlromanzogreco:polifoniaederos(1989;Frenchtranslation1991))andon
thereceptionofGreekmyth(LaGreciasecondoPasolini:Mitoecinema(1996);
Ildioibrido:DionisoeleBaccantinelNovecento(2006)).
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simon goldhillisProfessorofGreekatCambridgeUniversity.Hehaswritten
widely on all aspects of Greek literature, including Foucault’s Virginity: Ancient
EroticFictionandtheHistoryofSexuality(1995),andisparticularlyinterestedin
therelationbetweenliterature,culturalhistoryandliterarytheory.
stephen harrisonis Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Corpus Christi College,
Oxford, and Professor of Classical Languages and Literature in the University
of Oxford. He has written widely on the Roman novels; he is editor of Oxford
Readings in the Roman Novel (1999), and author of Apuleius: a Latin Sophist
(2000).
richard hunterisRegiusProfessorofGreekattheUniversityofCambridgeand
aFellowofTrinityCollege.Hisresearchinterestsincludeancientliterarycriticism,
theGreekandLatinnovel,andHellenisticpoetryanditsreceptioninRome.His
mostrecentbooksarePlato’sSymposium(2004),(withMarcoFantuzzi)Tradition
and Innovation in Hellenistic Poetry (2004), and The Shadow of Callimachus
(2006).
lawrence kimis Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Texas at
Austin. His research focuses on imperial Greek literature as well as ancient lit-
erarycriticism,andheiscurrentlycompletingabookonthereadingofHomerin
thesecondsophistic.
jason ko¨nigis Senior Lecturer in Greek at the University of St Andrews. His
publicationsincludeAthleticsandLiteratureintheRomanEmpire(2005),Order-
ingKnowledgeintheRomanEmpire(2007,jointlyeditedwithTimWhitmarsh),
and a wide range of articles on the Greek literature and culture of the Roman
world. He is currently working on a book on representations of consumption
and the symposium in Greco-Roman and Christian fiction in the first to fifth
centuriesce.
andrew lairdisReaderinClassicalLiteratureattheUniversityofWarwick.He
haspublishedwidelyonRomanandrenaissanceLatinpoetry,theancientnoveland
classicalandcontemporaryliterarytheory,includingthephilosophyoffiction.He
isauthorofPowersofExpression,ExpressionsofPower:SpeechPresentationand
LatinLiterature(1999),andhehaseditedAncientLiteraryCriticism(2006)and
(withAhuviaKahane)ACompaniontothePrologueofApuleius’Metamorphoses
(2001). His most recent book, The Epic of America: an Introduction to Rafael
Landı´varandtheRusticatioMexicana(2006)drawsattentiontotherichtradition
ofwritinginLatinfromcolonialSpanishAmerica.
helen moralesis Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Cambridge,
andaFellowofNewnhamCollege.Aspecialistintheancientnovelandingen-
derpolitics,sheisco-editorofIntratextuality:GreekandRomantextualrelations
(2000) and author of Vision and narrative in Achilles Tatius, Leucippe and Cli-
tophon(2004)andClassicalmythology:Averyshortintroduction(2007).Sheis
alsoco-editoroftheliteraryjournalRamus.
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john morganis Professor of Classics at the University of Wales Swansea, and
has published widely in the area of ancient fiction. His edition and commen-
tary of Daphnis and Chloe was published by Aris and Phillips in 2004. He was
also responsible for the translation of Heliodorus in B. P. Reardon’s Collected
AncientGreekNovels(1989).HeiscurrentlyworkingonbooksonLongusand
Heliodorus.
michael reeveheld (from 1984 to 2006) the Kennedy chair of Latin at Cam-
bridge,whereheisnowaDirectorofResearchintheFacultyofClassics.Hehas
published editions of Daphnis and Chloe (1982), Cicero’s speech Pro Quinctio,
andVegetius’Epitomareimilitaris,andarticlesonthetransmissionofLatinand
Greek authors. He is currently editing Geoffrey of Monmouth and studying the
transmissionofPliny’sNaturalHistory.
james rommistheJamesH.OttawayJrProfessorofClassicsatBardCollegein
Annandale, New York. He specialises in ancient geography and ethnography, in
particulartheareaswherethesefieldsoverlapwithfictionandhistoriography.Heis
currentlyeditingArrian’sAnabasisfortheLandmarkSeriesofAncientHistorians.
gerald sandyis Professor Emeritus of Classics at the University of British
Columbia. His research has focused on various aspects, including reception, of
the ancient Greek and Latin novels: his publications have ranged broadly, from
Heliodorus(1982)toaneditedcollectionTheClassicalHeritageinFrance(2002).
More recently he has published on late antiquity, the renaissance reception of
Apuleius,andPhilippoBeroaldo.
susan stephensis Professor of Classics at Stanford University. She has written
widelyonHellenisticandGreco-Romanliterature,cultureandpapyri.WithJack
Winkler she edited Ancient Greek Novels: the Fragments (1995); more recent
publicationsincludeSeeingDouble:InterculturalPoeticsinPtolemaicAlexandria
(2003). She is currently completing a project on Callimachus and (with Phiroze
Vasunia)editingacollectiononclassicsandnationalcultures.
tim whitmarshisE.P.WarrenPraelectorinClassicsatCorpusChristiandLec-
turerinGreekLanguageandLiteratureattheUniversityofOxford;until2007he
wasProfessorofAncientLiteraturesattheUniversityofExeter.Hehaspublished
widely on the Greek literature of the Roman period, including Greek Literature
andtheRomanEmpire:thePoliticsofImitation(2001)andTheSecondSophis-
tic(2005).HeiscurrentlyfinishingabookonnarrativeandidentityintheGreek
novel;futureplansincludeworkonlinksbetweenGreco-Romanandnear-Eastern
narrative.
froma zeitlinis Charles Ewing Professor in the Department of Classics at
PrincetonUniversity;shealsoteachesinJewishStudiesandComparativeLitera-
ture.ShehaswrittenextensivelyonGreekandRomancultureforoverfortyyears,
including important publications on Petronius (1971) and more recently on the
Greeknovel.Otherpublicationsincludetheco-editedvolumesBeforeSexuality?
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