Table Of ContentTHE PETRONIAN 
  SOCIETY NEWSLETTER 
 
   
  ICAN V 
  Editorial Board / Colofon  1  
  It is with the greatest pleasure that I announce that the Univer-
ICAN V  1
  sity of Houston-Downtown will host the Fifth International 
  Conference on the Ancient Novel (ICAN V) in the Fall of 
  Bibliography  4 2015. 
   
  Notices  14 Some preliminary notes: 
   
  Obituaries  15    The title of the conference is “From Tradition to Re-wiring 
  the Ancient Novel.” 
    The conference is scheduled to take place from 9/30/2015 
Reviews, Articles, and Dissertations  15
  (Wednesday) to 10/3/2015 (Sunday). 
    The conference will be held at the Hyatt Regency Hou-
  VoRl.e 4v1ie, wJsu,l yA 2rt0ic1l3e s, and Dissertations  ston, 1200 Louisiana Street, Houston, TX 77002, USA 
  (http://houstonregency.hyatt.com/en/hotel/home.html). 
 
The price of a single/double room is fixed for 2015 
Editor  ($109+17% tax=$128/night, €98/night; the Hyatt has an 
Edmund P. Cueva  indoor  swimming  pool,  and  provides  an  exercise 
Arts and Humanities 1009S-E  room/gym; free local telephone/free Wi-Fi/free bottled 
University of Houston-Downtown  water/free pressing blouse and shirts). All sessions for 
One Main Street  reading papers are in the Hyatt. Hotel registrations are not 
Houston, TX 77002, USA  yet accepted. The Hyatt will start accepting registrations 
Tel. (713) 226-5543  in March 2014. 
email: [email protected]    Houston  is  an  important  airline  hub  (http://www. 
  fly2houston.com/welcome) and can be reached easily, e.g. 
Book Review Editor  London–Houston,  Paris–Houston,  Frankfurt–Houston, 
Shannon N. Byrne  Munich–Houston, Amsterdam–Houston, Rome–Houston, 
Classics Department, Xavier University  Athens–Houston,  Toronto–Houston,  Brussels–Houston, 
3800 Victory Parkway  Madrid–Houston, Lisbon–Houston, Rio–Houston, Bue-
Cincinnati, OH 45207–5181, USA  nos Aires–Houston. 
Tel. (513) 745–3456, Fax (513) 745–1955    The conference fee is € 300 = $400, which is the same fee 
email: [email protected]  as ICAN IV in 2008! The registration fee will be due by 
  1 June 2015. There will be a website launched in Novem-
Editor Emeritus (1970-2005)  ber 2013 that will include information on how to register, 
Gareth Schmeling  the fee for students, cancellation policies. 
Dept of Classics, University of Florida    The website that will go live in November 2013 will have 
Gainesville, Florida 32611–7435, USA  information on how to submit abstracts. It will note that 
Tel. (352) 392–2075, Fax (352) 846–0297  the default language of the conference is English, but Ger-
email: [email protected]  man, French, Italian, Spanish are accepted. However, the 
  person reading a paper in one of those languages should 
Associate editors  photocopy the paper and distribute it to members of the 
Raymond Astbury, Barry Baldwin, Ewen Bowie,   audience so that all might benefit. 
Gian Biagio Conte, Niklas Holzberg, Gerald Sandy    The ICAN V International Advisory Committee (IAC) 
  will act as the Program Committee to referee abstracts sent
Petronian Sociey Newsletter 41, July 2013    2 
 
to the Organizer (Ed Cueva, [email protected]): the ab- Dufallo, B., The Captor’s Image: Greek Culture in Roman 
stracts should be anonymous and will be read by two ref- Ecphrasis (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 
erees at least. Deadline for abstracts is 1 March 2014, and  2012) xi + 279 pp. These two chapters may be of interest: 
decisions about acceptance will be made soon thereafter.    “Captives and Captors: Apuleius and Philostratus.” 
  Tentative panel topics:    “Sex, Satire, and the Hybrid Self in Petronian Ecphrasis.” 
  Archaeology   
  The Body and the Ancient Novel  Futre Pinheiro, M. P., M. B. Skinner, and F. I. Zeitlin, eds. Nar-
  Critical Theory  rating Desire: Eros, Sex, and Gender in the Ancient Novel 
  Death and Disease  (Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2012) xi + 289 pp. The fol-
  Digital Technologies and the Novel  lowing essays are included in the collection: 
  Early Christian Narrative and Jewish Narrative    Alvares, J., “Considering Desire in the Greek Romances 
  Empire  Employing Lacanian Theory: Some Explorations.” 
  Gender    Brethes, R., “How to Be a Man: Towards a Sexual Defini-
  Genre  tion of the Self in Achilles Tatius’ Novel Leucippe and 
  History  Clitophon.” 
  History of Scholarship on the Ancient Novel    Funke, M., “Female Sexuality in Longus and Alciphron.” 
  Information and Communication Technologies    Hallett, J. P., “Anxiety and Influence: Ovid’s Amores 3.7 
  Literature  and Encolpius’ Impotence in Satyricon 126 ff.” 
  Love    Jones, M., “Performing Paideia: Public and Private Mas-
  Myth  culinity in Chariton.” 
  New Testament and Ancient Novels    King, D., “‘Taking It Like a Man’: Gender, Identity and 
  Papyrology  the Body in Achilles Tatius’ Leucippe and Clitophon.” 
  Philosophy    Lateiner, D., “Gendered Places in Two Later Ancient Nov-
  Picaresque and Menippean Narratives  els (Aithiopika, Historia Apollonii).” 
  Poetics of the Ancient Novel    Littlewood,  A.,  “Gardens  of  ‘Kallimachos  and 
  Reception of the Ancient Novel in Literature and Art  Chrysorrhoë.’” 
  Religion    Makowksi, J. F., “Petronius’ Giton: Gender and Genre in 
  Rhetoric  the Satyrica.” 
  Science and the Novel    McCullough, A., “Gender Transformations in Apuleius’ 
  Sex  Metamorphoses.” 
  Space and Cultural Intersections    Redondo Moyano, E., “Space and Gender in the Ancient 
  The Psychology of the Ancient Novel  Greek Novel.” 
  A selection of papers will make up the conference pro-   Schwartz, S., “The Κρίσις Inside: Heliodoros’ Variations 
ceedings.  on the Bedtrick.” 
  Organizer: Edmund Cueva, University of Houston-Down-   Skinner, M. B., “Fortunata and the Virtues of Freed-
town ([email protected]).  women.” 
    Zeitlin, F. I., “Gendered Ambiguities, Hybrid Formations, 
If you have any ideas, suggestions, or would like to help in the  and the Imaginary of the Body in Achilles Tatius.” 
planning of the conference, do not hesitate to contact me.   
  Hunter, R L., Plato and the Traditions of Ancient Literature: 
The Silent Stream (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 
Bibliography 
2012) vii + 279 pp. “Exploring both how Plato engaged with 
existing literary forms and how later literature then created 
Greek and Latin Novels  ‘classics’ out of some of Plato’s richest works, this book in-
  cludes chapters on such subjects as rewritings of the Apology 
de Angelis, F., ed., Spaces of Justice in the Roman World. Co- and re-imaginings of Socrates’ defence, Plato’s rich style and 
lumbia Studies in the Classical Tradition 35 (Boston: Brill,  the criticisms it attracted and how Petronius and Apuleius 
2010) xii + 434. This collection includes, among many others,  threaded Plato into their richly comic texts. The scene for these 
the following two essays:  case studies is set through a thorough examination of how the 
  Bodel, B., “Kangaroo Courts: Displaced Justice in the Ro- tradition  constructed  the  relationship  between  Plato  and 
man Novel.”  Homer, of how Plato adapted poetic forms of imagery to his 
  Schwartz, S., “Chronotopes of Justice in the Greek Novel:  philosophical project in the Republic, to shared techniques of 
Trials in Narrative Spaces.”  representation between poet and philosopher and to foreshad-
  owings of later modes of criticism in Plato’s Ion. This is a ma-
jor contribution to Platonic studies, to the history of Platonic 
reception from the fourth century BC to the third century AD
Petronian Sociey Newsletter 41, July 2013    3 
 
and to the literature of the Second Sophistic.”—Provided by  Robert, F., “La representation de la pantomime dans les romans 
publisher.  grecs et latins: les exemples de Longus et d’Apulee,” DHA 38.1 
  (2012) 87–110. 
Jong, Irene J. F. de, ed. Space in Ancient Greek Literature:   
Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative (Leiden and Boston: Brill,  Stoneman, R., K. Erickson, and I. Netton, eds., The Alexander 
2012) xiv + 610 pp. The following essays in this collection may  Romance in Persia and the East. Ancient Narrative supplemen-
be of interest:  tum, 15 (Groningen: Barkhuis Publishing; Groningen Univer-
  de Temmerman, K., “Achilles Tatius.”  sity Library, 2012) xv + 416 pp. The following essays are in-
  de Temmerman, K., “Chariton.”  cluded in the collection: 
  de Temmerman, K., “Xenophon of Ephesus.”    Amitay, O., “Alexander in Bavli Tamid: In Search for a 
  Morgan, J. R., “Heliodorus.”  Meaning.” 
  Morgan, J. R., “Longus.”    Anderson, G., “The Alexander Romance and the Pattern of 
  Hero-Legend.” 
König, J., Saints and Symposiasts: The Literature of Food and    Asirvatham, S., “Alexander the Philosopher in the Greco-
the Symposium in Greco-Roman and Early Christian Culture  Roman, Persian and Arabic Traditions.” 
(Cambridge:  Cambridge  University  Press,  2012)  430  pp.    Ball, W., “Some Talk of Alexander Myth and Politics in 
“Greek traditions of writing about food and the symposium had  the North-West Frontier of British India.” 
a long and rich afterlife in the first to fifth centuries CE, in both    Boeschoten, H., “Adventures of Alexander in Medieval 
Greco-Roman and early Christian culture. This book provides  Turkish.” 
an account of the history of the table-talk genre, derived from    Casari, M., “The King Explorer: A Cosmographic Ap-
Plato’s Symposium and other classical texts, focusing among  proach to the Persian Alexander.” 
other writers on Plutarch, Athenaeus, Methodius and Macro-   Cottrell, E., “Al-Mubaššir ibn Fātik and the α Version of 
bius. It deals with the representation of transgressive, degraded,  the Alexander Romance.” 
eccentric types of eating and drinking in Greco-Roman and    Doufikar-Aerts, F., “King Midas’ Ears on Alexander’s 
early Christian prose narrative texts, focusing especially on the  Head: In Search of the Afro-Asiatic Alexander Cycle.” 
Letters of Alciphron, the Greek and Roman novels, especially    Fulinska, A., “Oriental Imagery and Alexander’s Legend 
Apuleius, the Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles and the early  in Art: Reconnaissance.” 
saints’ lives. It argues that writing about consumption and con-   Gad, E. M., “Al-Tabari’s Tales of Alexander: History and 
versation continued to matter: these works communicated dis- Romance.” 
tinctive ideas about how to talk and how to think, distinctive    Jouanno, C., “The Persians in Late Byzantine Alexander 
models of the relationship between past and present, distinctive  Romances: A Portrayal under Turkish Influences.” 
and often destabilising visions of human identity and holi-   Klęczar, A., “The Kingship of Alexander the Great in the 
ness.”—Provided by the publisher.  Jewish Versions of the Alexander Narrative.” 
    Manteghi, H., “Alexander the Great in the Shāhnāmeh of 
Minchin, E., ed., Orality, Literacy and Performance in the An- Ferdowsī.” 
cient World (Leiden: Brill, 2012) xviii + 268 pp. The following    McCoull, L. S. B., “Aspects of Alexander in Coptic 
two essays from this collection may be of interest:  Egypt.” 
  Lauwers, J., “Reading Books, Talking Culture: The Per-   Melville, F., “A Flying King.” 
formance of Paideia in Imperial Greek Literature.”    Müller, S., “Stories of the Persian Bride: Alexander and 
  Slater, N. W., “Eumolpus Poeta at Work: Rehearsed  Roxane.” 
Spontaneity in the Satyricon.”    Ogden, D., “Sekandar, Dragon-Slayer.” 
    Palagia, O., “The Impact of Alexander the Great in the Art 
Montiglio, S., Love and Providence. Recognition in the Ancient  of Central Asia.” 
Novel (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013)    Selden, D. L., “Mapping the Alexander Romance.” 
viii + 256 pp.    Stoneman, R., “Persian Aspects of the Romance Tradi-
  tion.” 
Papanghelis, T. D., S. J. Harrison, and S. A. Frangoulidis, eds.,    Szalc, A., “In Search of Water of Life: The Alexander Ro-
Generic Interfaces in Latin Literature: Encounters, Interac- mance and Indian Mythology.” 
tions and Transformations (Berlin: De Gruyter 2013) ix + 478    Yamanaka, Y., “The Islamized Alexander in Chinese Ge-
pp. The following two essays from this collection may be of  ographies and Encyclopaedias.” 
interest:    Zuwiyya, D., “Umāra’s Qiṣṣa al-Iskandar as a Model of 
  Fuhrer, T., “Hypertexts and Auxiliary Texts: New Genres  the Arabic Alexander Romance.” 
in Late Antiquity?”   
  Konstan, D., “Apollonius King of Tyre: Between Novel   
and New Comedy.”
Petronian Sociey Newsletter 41, July 2013    4 
 
Greek Novels  Laplace, M., “Pour la datation du roman de Chariton: la figure 
  de Demetrios le Cynique, envers du vrai philosophe,” Emerita 
Berenguer Amenós, J., and F. J. Cuartero i Iberra, Dafnis i Cloe  79.2 (2011) 341–356. 
(Barcelona: Edicions 62, 2011) 102 pp.   
  Malosse, P.-L., and B. Pérez-Jean, B., Achille-Eschyle: Mythe 
Capra, A., “Detour en Route in the Aegean Sea? Xenophon of  ancien et mythe nouveau: Les Sept contre Thèbes et Leucippé 
Ephesus 5.10.2,” CP 107.1 (2012) 70–74.  et Clitophon (Montpellier: Presses universitaires de la Méditer-
  ranée, 2012) 166 pp. 
Chew, K., “A Novelistic Convention Reversed: Tyche vs. Eros   
in Achilles Tatius,” CP 107.1 (2012) 75–80.  May, R., “Chariton,” in The Encyclopedia of Ancient History, 
  Volume III. Be – Co, eds. R. S. Bagnall, K. Brodersen, C. B. 
Clo, M., “L’object medical: le traitement de la folie dans Leu- Champion, A. Erskine, and S. R. Huebner (Malden, MA: 
cippe et Clitophon d’Achille Tatius,” BAGB 2012.2 (2012)  Wiley-Blackwell) 1443–1444. 
100–112.   
  Miguélez Cavero, L., “Rhetorical Displays of Knowledge in 
Coleman, K. M., “Sailing to Nuceria: Evidence for the Date of  Leucippe  and  Clitophon:  Animal  Talk,”  Prometheus  36.3 
Xenophon of Ephesus,” AClass 54 (2011) 27–42.  (2010) 263–283. 
   
Doulamis, K., “All’s Well that Ends Well: Storytelling, Predic- Montiglio, S., “The (Cultural) Harmony of Nature: Music, 
tive  Signs,  and  the  Voice  of  the  Author  in  Chariton’s  Love, and Order in Daphnis and Chloe,” TAPA 141.1 (2012) 
Callirhoe,” Mnemosyne 65.1 (2012) 18–39.  133–156. 
   
Faranton, V., Achille Tatius ou la contestation du genre rom- Olsen, S., “Maculate Conception: Sexual Ideology and Crea-
anesque (Paris: L’Harmattan, coll. Kubaba, 2011) 130 pp.  tive Authority in Heliodorus’ Aethiopica,” AJP 133.2 (2012) 
  301–322. 
Gillespie, C. C., “Creating Chloe: Education in Eros through   
Aesthetics in Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe,” in Aesthetic Value  Pizzone, A., “When Calasiris Got Pregnant: Shifting Perspec-
in Classical Antiquity, eds. I. Sluiter and R. M. Rosen (Leiden  tives on Story-Telling in Heliodorus’ Aethiopica,” in The Pur-
and Boston: Brill, 2012, 484 pp.) 421–446.  pose of Rhetoric in Late Antiquity: From Performance to Exe-
  gesis, ed. A. J. Q. Puertas (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2013, 278 
Hodkinson, O., “Attic Idylls: Hierarchies of Herdsmen and So- pp) 139–160. 
cial Status in Alciphron and Longus,” JHS 132 (2012) 41–53.   
  Reig Calpe, M., “Les Etiòpiques: la novella com a paròdia dels 
Homar, R., “Tragèdia i retòrica en la novel·la grega,” Ítaca 24,  gèneres dramatics,” Studia philologica Valentina (2010) 105–
25, and 26 (2008–2010) 157–181.  118. 
   
Hurka,  F.,  “Achilles  Tatius:  Leucippe  and  Clitophon,”  in  Rojas Alvarez, L., “Ecos de la novela griega en el Renaci-
Brill’s New Pauly Supplements I – Volume 5: The Reception of  miento,” Synthesis 19 (2012) 15–27. 
Classical Literature, eds. C. Walde and B. Egger (Stuttgart: J.   
B. Metzler’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 2010) 1–6.  Santafé Soler, S., “Retórica en Aqiles Tacio,” Studia philolog-
  ica Valentina 12 (2010) 119–138. 
Jeffreys, E., ed., trans., comm., Four Byzantine Novels: Theo-  
dore  Prodromus,  Rhodanthe  and  Dosikles;  Eumathios  Sanz Morales, M., “Un ‘locus desperatus’ en Caritón de Afro-
Makrembolites, Hysmine and Hysminias; Constantine Manas- disias (III 10,1),” Eikasmos 22 (2011) 233–236. 
ses, Aristandros and Kallithea; Niketas Eugenianos, Drosilla   
and Charikles. Translated texts for Byzantinists, 1 (Liverpool:  Schwartz, S., “Dressing Up, Dressing Down: False Enslave-
Liverpool University Press, 2012) 504 pp.  ment in the Greek Novels,” in Éclats de littérature grecque 
  d’Homère à Pascal Quignard: mélanges offerts à Suzanne 
Jones, M., Playing the Man: Performing Masculinities in the  Saïd, eds. S. Dubel, S. Gotteland, and E. Oudot (Nanterre: 
Ancient Greek Novel (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012)  Presses universitaires de Paris Ouest, 2012, 365 pp.) 175–189. 
303 pp. Internet resource.   
  Scippacercola, N., Il lato oscuro del Romanzo Greco (Amster-
Kossaifi, C., “The Legend of Phatta in Longus’ Daphnis and  dam: Adolf M. Hakkert, 2011) 209 pp. 
Chloe,” AJP 133.4 (2012) 573–600.   
  Setaioli, A., “COME NACQUERO GLI DÈI (PETRONIO, 
FR. 27 B.),” in Harmonia: Scritti di filologia classica in onore
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Spiller, E., Reading and the History of Race in the Renaissance  Carmignani, M., “Poeta vesanus, recitator acerbus. Die auf Ho-
(Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2011) ix + 252  raz basierende Karikierung des Eumolpus in Petronius, Sat. 
pp. “Elizabeth Spiller studies how early modern attitudes to- 118,” RhM 156.1 (2013) 27–46. 
wards race were connected to assumptions about the relation-  
ship between the act of reading and the nature of physical iden- Deroux, C., “A propos de deux inscriptions de la ‘domus 
tity. As reading was understood to happen in and to the body,  Trimalchionis’ (Pétrone, Sat. 28, 7 et 29, 1),” in Corolla Epi-
what you read could change who you were. In a culture in  graphica: hommages au professeur Yves Burnand (2 vols.). 
which learning about the world and its human boundaries came  Collection Latomus, 331 (Bruxelles: Éditions Latomus, 2011, 
increasingly through reading, one place where histories of race  xiv + 743 pp.) 427–448. 
and histories of books intersect is in the minds and bodies of   
readers. Bringing together ethnic studies, book history and his- Egelhaaf-Gaiser, U., “Des Mysten neue Kleider: Gewande(l)te 
torical phenomenology, this book provides a detailed case  Identität im Isisbuch des Apuleius,” in Kleidung und Identität 
study of printed romances and works by Montalvo, Heliodorus,  in religiösen Kontexten der römischen Kaiserzeit. Altertums-
Amyot, Ariosto, Tasso, Cervantes, Munday, Burton, Sidney  wissenschaftliches Kolloquium in Verbindung mit der Arbeits-
and Wroth. Reading and the History of Race traces ways in  gruppe “Kleidung und Religion,” Projekt DressID, Rheinische 
which print culture and the reading practices it encouraged,  Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, 30. und 31. Oktober 
contributed to shifting understandings of racial and ethnic iden- 2009, eds. S. Schrenk, K. Vössing, and M. Tellenbach (Re-
tity.”—Provided by publisher.  gensburg: Verlag Schnell & Steiner, 2012, 288 pp.) 149–162. 
   
Trzaskoma,  S.  M.,  “Aristophanes  in  Chariton  again  (Plu.  Edmunds,  L.,  “Rules  for  Poems  in  Petronius’  Satyrica,” 
1127),” Philologus 155.2 (2011) 367–368.  SyllClass 20 (2009) 71–104. 
   
Trzaskoma, S. M., “Why Miletus? Chariton’s Choice of Set- Finkelpearl, E. D., An Apuleius Reader: Selections from the 
ting and Xenophon’s Anabasis,” Mnemosyne 65.2 (2012) 300– Metamorphoses (Mundelein, IL: Bolchazy-Carducci Publish-
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Whitmarsh, T., “Epitomes of Greek Novels,” in Condensing  Gloyn, L., “She’s Only a Bird in a Gilded Cage: Freedwomen 
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pp.) 307–320.  Graverini, L., Literature and Identity in The Golden Ass of Ap-
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Latin Novels  State University Press, 2012) xvi + 239 pp. 
   
Aoyagi, M., Itsuraku to Hōshoku No Kodai Rōma: Torima- Harrison, S. J., “Apuleius,” in The Encyclopedia of Ancient 
rukio No Kyōen O Yomu (Tōkyō: Kōdansha, 2012) 313 pp.  History, Volume II. An – Be, eds. R. S. Bagnall, K. Brodersen, 
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Bond, R., “The Augustan Utopia of Horace and Vergil and the  Metamorphoses (Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcom-
Imperial Dystopia of Petronius and Juvenal,” Scholia 19 (2012)  ing). 
31–52.   
  Hayes, E. and S. Nimis, eds., Lucian’s The Ass: an Intermedi-
Borghini, A., “Tipo o sottotipi narrativi nel racconto della  ate Greek Reader. Greek text with running vocabulary and 
matrona  di  Efeso.  Una  schematizzazione  folklorico-strut- commentary (Oxford, OH: Faenum Publishing, 2012) xii + 230 
turale,” in Tanti affetti in tal momento. Studi in onore di Gio- pp. 
vanna  Garbarino,  ed.  A.  Balbo  (Alessandria:  Edizioni   
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Bradley, K. R., Apuleius and Antonine Rome. Historical Essays   
(Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012) xvi + 397 pp.  Hindermann, J., “La réception de l’ élégie romaine dans les 
Métamorphoses d’ Apulée,” in Au-delà de l’ élégie d’ amour.
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Métamorphoses et renouvellements d’ un genre latin dans l’  dissident sensibilities on the writings of the major Neronian au-
Antiquité et à la Renaissance. Colloque international tenu à  thors. It offers a detailed and innovative analysis of essays, po-
Neuchatel (Suisse) en mai 2010, ed. L. Chappuis Sandoz  etry and fiction written by Seneca, Lucan and Petronius, and 
(Paris: Éd. Classiques Garnier, 2011, 287 pp.) 147–158.  illuminates their psychological and moral anguish.”—Provided 
  by publisher. 
Hofmann, H. and J. Knape, “Gespräch über das Tierische, das   
Göttliche und das Allzumenschliche in der Antike (Apuleius),”  Roth,  U.,  “‘In  vilicationem  relegavit’:  Petronius,  Satyrica 
in Kunstgespräche: zur diskursiven Konstitution von Kunst, ed.  69.3,” RPh 83.2 (2009) 253–260. 
J. Knape (Baden-Baden: Koerner, 2012, 326 pp.) 159–180.   
  Sabnis, S., “Invisible Slaves, Visible Lamps: a Metaphor in 
Holland, J. E., and William J. Dominik, eds., Petronii Satyri- Apuleius,” Arethusa 45.1 (2012) 79–108. 
con Concordantia. Alpha-Omega: Reihe A, Lexika, Indizes,   
Konkordanzen zur klassischen Philologie, 263 (Hildesheim,  Slater, N. W., “Petronius,” in The Oxford Encyclopedia of An-
Zürich, and New York: Olms-Weidmann, 2013) vi + 564.  cient Greece and Rome, Volume 5. Mos Maiorum – Posidonius 
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H. Sammlung Tusculum (Berlin: Akad.-Verl., 2013) 437 pp.  Star, C., The Empire of the Self: Self-command and Political 
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Janžekovič, N., Ljudski smeh in karnevalizacija v rimskem ro- University Press, 2012) viii + 302 pp. 
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kega smeha v Petronijevem Satirikonu: diplomsko delo (Ljubl- Tilg, S., “Religious Feasting in Apuleius’s ‘Metamorphoses’: 
jana, 2012) 164 pp.  Appetite for Change?,” TAPA 141.2 (2011) 387–400. 
   
Kirichenko, A., “Becoming a Book: Divination and Fictional- Zimmermann, M., “Age and Merit: The Importance of recen-
ity in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses,” MH 68.2 (2011) 182–202.  tiores and incunabula for the Text of Apuleius’ Metamorpho-
  ses,” Segno e testo 9 (2011) 131–163. 
Lee, B. T., E. Finkelpearl, and L. Graverini, Apuleius and Af-  
rica (Routledge, forthcoming).  Zimmermann, M., Apulei Metamorphoseon Libri XI (Oxford, 
  UK: Oxford University Press, 2012) lix + 289 pp. 
Lowe, D., “Trimalchio’s Wizened Boy (Satyrica 28. 4),” CQ   
62.2 (2012) 883–885.  Recent Scholarship on the Ancient Novel  
  and Early Jewish and Christian Narrative 
Mazzilli, C., “‘Non sanno dipingere, non sanno scrivere’: fig-  
ure artigiane e parodia del ekphrasis nella Cena Trimalchio- Heffernan, T. J., The Passion of Perpetua and Felicity (Oxford 
nis,” Aufidus 71–72 (2010) 87–117.  and New York: Oxford University Press, 2012) xxvii + 557 pp. 
   
Miralles Malodonado, J. C., “La critica della retorica contem- Troftgruben, A Conclusion Unhindered a Study of the Ending 
poranea nel Satyricon di Petronio,” Maia 63.2 (2011) 262–273.  of Acts within its Literary Environment (Tübingen: Mohr Sie-
  beck, 2012) 247 pp. 
Panayotakis, C., “A Fisherman’s Cloak and the Literary Tex-  
ture of the Story of Apollonius, King of Tyre,” in Il romanzo  Nachleben 
latino: Modelli e tradizione letteraria. Atti della VII Giornata   
ghisleriana di Filologia classica (Pavia, 11 – 12 ottobre 2007),  Bernardini, M. G., The Tale of Eros and Psyche: Myth in Art 
ed. F. Gasti (Pavia: Collegio Ghislieri, 2009, 138 pp.) 125–138.  from Antiquity to Canova (Roma: “L’Erma” di Bretschneider, 
  2012) 326 pp. The collection contains the following essays: 
Ramsby, T., “‘Reading’ the Freed Slave in the Cena Trimal-   Bernardini, M. G., “The Frieze by Perin del Vaga in Castel 
chionis,” in Free at Last! The Impact of Freed Slaves on the  Sant’Angelo and the Tale of Psyche in the Art of the Re-
Roman Empire, eds. S. Bell and T. Ramsby (Bristol: Bristol  naissance.” 
Classical Press, 2012, 212 pp.) 66–87.    Bernardini, M. G., “The Tale of Cupid and Psyche.” 
Reymond, N., “Poverty, Class and the Formation of the Poetic    Bussagli, M., “Anatomy of the Soul.” 
Identity in Petronius,” AHB 25.1–2 (2011) 47–64.    Cavicchioli, S., “Romantic Mythical Revival in the Neo-
  classical Age.” 
Rudich, V., Dissidence and Literature Under Nero: The Price    Guderzo, M., “‘An Artistic Enjoyment of Great Beauty’: 
of Rhetoricization (Hoboken: Taylor and Francis, 2013, 408  Cupid and Psyche by Antonio Canova.” 
pp). Internet resource. “This work inquires into the impact of
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  Longo, F., “The Physical and Psychic Components of the  Häfner, R., “Intensité et finesse le Prologue de L’ Âne d’ or d’ 
Human Being in the Cultural Tradition of Ancient Egypt.”  Apulée dans les traductions vernaculaires (allemandes, itali-
  Mattei, M., “Literary and Figurative Themes: Cupid and  ennes, espagnolos, anglaises et françaises) de la fin du XVe 
Psyche in Apuleius’ fabula, Crucible of All the Fairy-tales  siècle à la première moltié du XVII siècle,” in Traduire les an-
in the World.”  ciens en Europa du Quattrocento à la fin du XVIIIe siècle: d’ 
  Mattei, M., “The Roots of the Myth: The Personification  une renaissance à une revolution?, eds. L. Bernard-Pradelle 
of Eros and Psyche.”  and C. Lechevalier (Paris: Presses de l’ Univ. Paris-Sorbonne, 
  Mattei, M., “The Sufferings of the Soul, the Divine Cou- 266 pp.) 171–190. 
ple, the Embrace and the Kiss: The Iconography of Cupid   
and Psyche.”  Lennon, T., “Satirists paid dearly for mocking leaders WHEN 
  Mirolla, M., “The Map of Cupid and Psyche in Rome.”  COMEDY BECOMES A DEADLY SERIOUS PROFES-
  Montagnoli, L., “The Master of the Die Series: Thirty-two  SION.” Daily Telegraph [Sydney, New South Wales, Aus-
Prints Illustrating the Tale of Cupid and Psyche.”  tralia] 2 Apr. 2013: 25. 
  “Egypt’s most famous television satirist Bassem Youssef has 
Chadwick, A., “Daphnis and Chloe, Oran Mor, Glasgow.”  been arrested and questioned after allegations he insulted his 
Herald [Glasgow, Scotland] 9 June 2011: 20.  country’s President and religion. 
“Oran Mor’s Corona Classic Cuts mini-season of bite-sized ad- “He has been released on bail while the allegations are investi-
aptations of classic works gets under way this week with a sec- gated. But the story highlights how dangerous it can be to sati-
ond-century rom-com by Greek novelist Longus. And a spir- rise politicians or cultural sacred cows. 
ited, exuberantly acted and very funny—if unconventional— “In times past many people who dared make fun of leaders paid 
production it is too.  a high price. 
“The best Classic Cuts have always been those that attempt to  “In ancient Rome under the brutal regime of the emperor Nero, 
do something original with the source material rather than  satirist Gaius Petronius got away with plenty, for a time. Ac-
simply cut scenes to shoehorn the play into the allotted time  cording to historian Tacitus: ‘His days he passed in sleep, his 
frame.  nights in the business and pleasures of life. Indolence had 
“That’s exactly what Hattie Naylor has done here, with an a  raised him to fame, as energy raises others, and he was reck-
capella  version  of  Sam  Cooke’s  Cupid  preceding  Mark  oned not a debauchee and spendthrift, like most of those who 
McDonnell as Longus dividing the crowd, panto-style, into  squander their substance, but a man of refined luxury. 
goats and sheep.  “‘And indeed his talk and his doings, the freer they were and 
“When the god Love makes his initial entrance as a hoodied  the more show of carelessness they exhibited, were the better 
Manc rapper, it is clear the dressing-up box and wildly exag- liked.’ 
gerated characterisation are going to be employed to the full in  “One of his more careless discourses was his work The Satyr-
Marilyn Imrie’s production. And so it proves.  icon, parts of which satirised the excesses of the court of Nero. 
“Plotwise, the show is basically a series of comic tableaux cen- But it wasn’t Nero who brought Petronius to grief—instead he 
tring on the trials and tribulations of childhood sweethearts,  incurred the enmity of Tigellinus, commander of Nero’s guard 
Daphnis (Paul James Corrigan) and Chloe (Kirstin McLean)— who had him framed for an assassination attempt. 
both adopted as foundlings—as they battle everything fate  “In 66AD Petronius was arrested. Despite his innocence he 
throws at them.  knew his fate was sealed. To avoid execution he slowly com-
“Chief among these are Chloe’s kidnapping by angry rene- mitted suicide, by alternately opening his veins and bandaging 
gades, an inability to discover the joys of sex, a French ingenue  them over the course of an evening. He died while enjoying 
man-eater and Daphnis trying to ward off a servant’s gay crush.  feasting and trivial talk with friends. 
It’s all implausible stuff, made farcically funny by a cast in ex- “In the reign of Queen Elizabeth I mocking the monarch was a 
cellent form.  risky pastime, as both Ben Jonson and Thomas Nashe discov-
“It was not what I was expecting at all and I can’t imagine that  ered. In 1597 the pair collaborated on a play called Isle Of 
I was alone there.  Dogs. It was described by authorities as a ‘lewd plaie’ that was 
“Sponsored by Corona.”  also seditious. It was so offensive it was never published and 
Couperus,  L.,  Lucius  Apuleius,  B.  S.  Berrington,  and  R.  no longer exists. 
Graves, Psyche (London: Pushkin Press, 2013) 212 pp.  “Nashe, Jonson and some actors who had appeared in a pro-
  duction of the play were arrested. Nashe’s home was raided and 
Desmarais, J., and C. Baldick, Decadence: An Annotated An- he was grilled by Richard Topcliffe, the Queen’s inquisitor 
thology (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2012) ix +  who specialised in hunting heretics and traitors and torturing 
323 pp. The publisher states that there are “significant extracts  confessions out of them. 
from relevant ancient Roman writings by Petronius.”  “Jonson and Nashe were eventually allowed to go free but 
  Nashe went into hiding for a time in Yarmouth. He only wrote 
one more work, on the joys of herring fishing. Jonson would
Petronian Sociey Newsletter 41, July 2013    8 
 
continue his satirical writings for theatre but he stuck to satiris- “Best Dickens meal—Great Expectations (1861). Pip, having 
ing society rather than incumbent monarchs.  stolen a pie for Magwitch, awaits his fate during Christmas din-
“French philosopher Voltaire also spent time in prison for his  ner  with  Uncle  Pumblechook.  His  fate  is  delayed  when 
satire. A noted wit, he entertained Paris society in the last years  Pumblechook drinks tar water instead of brandy and nearly has 
of the reign of Louis XIV.  a fit. 
“He continued to grow in fame after the death of Louis in 1715  “Jonathan Franzen creates a scene between father (Alfred) and 
and the accession of the young Louis XV under the regency of  son (Chipper) in The Corrections (2001). Chipper refuses to eat 
a council of nobles. Voltaire had more freedom to satirise the  his liver and bacon, with ‘brown grease-soaked flakes on the 
church and state under the regency but his targeting of Philippe  ferrous lobes...like corrosion’. His stubbornness is implacable 
II, duke d’Orleans, got him into strife in 1717. He was thrown  for he realises ‘if you sat at the dinner table long enough...you 
into the Bastille for a year.  never stopped sitting there. Some part of you sat there all your 
“He emerged with reputation intact but there were other occa- life’.” 
sions where he had to flee into exile or seek refuge because of   
his willingness to take on nobles and the accepted views of the  Onelli, C., “‘Con oscurità mutando i nomi’: Napoli epicurea 
world.  nei Successi di Eumolpione (1678),” California Italian Studies 
“In the 20th century American comedian and satirist Lenny  3.1 (2012) 1–20. 
Bruce learned how touchy authorities were about some sub-  
jects. His first arrest in 1961 was for obscene language and  Onelli, C., “Freedom and Censorship: Petronius’ Satyricon in 
other arrests followed. At at a trial for a routine he performed  Seventeenth-century  Italy,”  Classical  Receptions  Journal 
at the Cafe Au Go Go in New York in 1964 his lawyers tried  (2012). Internet resource. 
to argue he was an important social satirist and the arrests for   
obscene language constituted a form of harassment.  Palmeri, F., Satire in Narrative: Petronius, Swift, Gibbon, Mel-
“Complaints were made about his jokes about Eleanor Roose- ville, & Pynchon (University of Texas Press, 2012) 196 pp. 
velt’s breasts and even Jackie Kennedy’s reaction to the assas-  
sination of her husband, John F Kennedy.  Praet, D., “Modernism and Postmodernism in Antiquity, and 
“He later said: ‘Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough  the (Post-)modernist Reception of the Classical: From the Sa-
time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirise it,  tyrica-novel by Petronius to the Satyricon-opera by Bruno 
which is rather ridiculous when you think about it.’  Maderna,” in Receptions of Antiquity, ed. J. Nelis (Gent: Aca-
“He was found guilty of obscenity but never served any of his  demia Press, 2011, 372 pp.) 33–56. 
sentence of four months in a work house, remaining free on a   
bond pending appeals. He died in 1966 of a morphine over- Rojas Alvarez, L., “Ecos de la novela griega en el Renaci-
dose.  miento,” Synthesis 19 (2012) 15–27. 
“In 2003 New York governor George Pataki gave Bruce a post-  
humous pardon on the basis of his First Amendment right to  Weiss, S., “Filozofska Alegoreza Izidinega Lika V Beroald-
free speech.”  ovem Komentarju K Zlatemu Oslu Lucija Apuleja,” Keria 14 
  (2012) 9–31. 
Lott, T., “Tim Lott on the best meals in literature; Tim Lott   
chooses five delectable (or disastrous) literary meals.” Tele-
graph Online 6 Apr. 2012. 
“The most outrageous meal in literature is in Petronius’s ‘Din-
ner with Trimalchio’, from the Satyricon (first century AD)—
hors d’oeuvres of white and black olives, served in panniers on 
each side of a bronze donkey, and dormice sprinkled with 
honey and poppy seeds followed by roast boar belly (cut open 
for thrushes to fly out). 
“Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho (1991) is more palely 
baroque. Patrick Bateman confronts his victims over elaborate 
meals—monkfish ragout with violets and radicchio with free-
range squid, golden caviar with poblano chillies—while he fan-
tasises about how he is going to do away with them. 
“More modestly, there are the egg sandwiches over which 
Frank and April Wheeler, from Richard Yates’s Revolutionary 
Road (1961), meet the eccentric truth teller, John Givings, who 
celebrates April and Frank’s dreams to escape to Paris—and 
who finally condemns them, as they abandon those dreams.
Petronian Sociey Newsletter 41, July 2013    9 
 
  De Simone, P., “The Relationship between Magic, Initia-
Notices 
tion into the Mysteries and Knowledge in Apuleius’ Met-
amorphoses and Celsus’ Alethes Logos.” 
American Philological Association, January 5–8,   
2012, 143rd Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA  The Classical Association Annual Conference, Uni-
  Perkins, J., “Language Matters in the Aithiopika and the  versity of Exeter, April 11–14, 2012 
Acts of Thomas.”    Felton, D., “Apuleius’s Cupid as a (Male) Lamia (Met. 
  Slaveva-Griffin,  S.,  “Heliodorus  and  the  Middle  Pla- 5.17–18).” 
tonists’ Romance with the Duality of Soul.”    Hartley, B., “Herodotean Presences in Imperial Greek Fic-
Panel: Novel  tion.” 
  Baker, A. J. E., “Doing Things with Words: The Force of  Panel: The Greek Novel 
Law and Magic in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses.”    Bentley, G. G., “Leucippe’s Haircut: the case for the sub-
  Chew, K. S., “What it Means to be a Man: Sōphrosynē in  literary in the Ancient Greek Novel.” 
the Greek Novels.”    MacQueen, B., “The erotics of writing in the Prologue of 
  Konstan, D., “Beauty in the Greek Novel.”  Longus’s Daphnis and Chloe.” 
  Schwartz, S., “Gamos and kenogamion in Achilles Tatius,    McVeigh,  H.  G.,  “Assembly-women  in  Chariton’s 
Revisited: Legal Pluralism on the Eve of the Constitutio  Callirhoe.” 
Antoniniana.”    Owens, W., “The Greek novel Callirhoe: By a freedman 
Panel: The Worlds of the Greek Novels  author for freedman readers?” 
  Banta, J., “Who Turns the Screws? Torture and Control in  Panel: KYKNOS: Novel Heroines 
Anthia and Habrocomes.”    Bird, R., “Leukippe’s sophrosyne in Achilles Tatius.” 
  De Temmerman, K., “Heroes and Heroines in Control:    Bracke, E., “Cunning Women in the Greek Novel.” 
The Cultural Dynamics of Characterization in the Ancient    D’Alconzo, N., “Chariclea Daughter of Phantasia.” 
Greek Novel.”    Trzaskoma, S., “Clitophon as Romance Heroine.” 
  Lalanne, S., “The Merry Widow of Ephesos, Her Lover  Panel: KYKNOS II: Novel Receptions 
and Her Husband: Reflections on the Status of Elites in    Hawkins, K., “Money, Money, Money: Bonfire of the 
Achilles Tatius’ Novel.”  Vanities, Pompeii, and Petronius’ Satyrica.” 
  Sabnis, S., “The Elephant Cure in Achilles Tatius.”    Morgan, J., “An operatic reception of Daphnis and Chloe.” 
  Trnka-Amrhein, Y., ‘Where is Sesonchosis? Reflections    Repath,  I.,  “A  Swarm  of  Intertextuality:  Heliodorus, 
on the World of the Sesonchosis Novel.”  Achilles Tatius, and Plato.” 
    Tagliabue, A., “The close link between sophrosyne and the 
American Philological Association, January 3–6,  Egyptian conceptualisation of immortality in Xenophon of 
2013, 144th Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA  Ephesus’ Ephesiaca.” 
  Sabnis, S., “Animals and Barbarians in the Alexander Ro-  
mance.”  The Classical Association Annual Conference, Uni-
  Slaveva-Griffin, S., “‘In the Garden of Zeus’: Plotinus and  versity of Reading, April 3–6, 2013 
Heliodorus on the Allegory of Love.”    Lefteratou, A., “Talking ‘myth’? Female myth-tellers in 
  Trzaskoma, S. M., “The Late Antique and Early Byzantine  Plutarch and the Greek novels.” 
Readership of Achilles Tatius.”  Panel: KYKNOS: What the Heck-Phrasis?  
Panel: Appearance and Reality in the Ancient Novelistic    Bentley, G. G., “The Ecphrasis of the Nightingale: The In-
Discourse  fluence of Pantomime in Achilles Tatius.” 
  Baker, A. J. E., “Does Clothing Make the Man or Does It    D’Alconzo, N., “From theory to practice: the Progymnas-
Make the Man an Impostor?: Costume and Identity in Ap- mata and the novels.” 
uleius’ Metamorphoses, Florida, and Apology.”    Dollins, E., “Whose Ekphrasis is it Anyway?” 
  Cioffi, R. L. “The Boy Who Cried Wolf: Longos, Mime-   Trzaskoma, S., “Ekphrasis, Mythography and Originality 
sis, and the Pastoral Tradition.”  in the Later Greek Novel.” 
  MacQueen, B. D., “Transgression in Longus’s Daphnis   
and Chloe.”  Classical Association of the Middle West and South, 
  Smith, S. D., “Aspasia and Callirhoe: Greek Women in the  108th Annual Meeting, 2012 March 28–31; Baton 
East.”  Rouge, Louisiana 
  Panel: Petronius’ Satyrica: Women Crossing the Line 
The Classical Association Annual Conference,    Acton, K. L., “Borders, Bodies, and Money in the Satyr-
Durham University, April 15–18, 2011  ica: Sex and Social Anxiety in the Early Roman Empire.” 
  Momtazi, S., “The Marriage of Cupid and Psyche: Apu-   Armstrong, R. H., “Petronius’ Women and Fellini Satyr-
leius’ Use of Catullus 64.”  icon: Crossing from Artifact to Archetype.” 
Poster:
Petronian Sociey Newsletter 41, July 2013    10 
 
  Makowski, J., “Transgression and Triangulation: Petro- Classical Association of the Middle West and South, 
nius’ Women and Bisexual Men.”  Southern Section, November 1–3, 2012, Tallahas-
  McCoy, M. B., “A Tale of Two Circes: Inversion and Sub- see, Florida 
version in the Satyrica.”  Panel: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner! 
  Slater, N. W., “Resurrection Woman, or There and Back    Marillier, E. J., “Trimalchio, the capillatus calvus in Pe-
Again: Petronius’s Widow of Ephesus.”  tronius’ Satyrica.” 
Panel: Roman Novel    McCoy, M., “A Tale of Two (or more) Circes: Inversion 
  Adkins, E., “Lucius in Wonderland: (Greek?) Landscapes  and Subversion in the Satyrica.” 
and Travel in Apuleius’ Golden Ass.”    White, D. J., “Super cancrum coronam: The crown in 
  Felton, D., “Apuleius’s Cupid as a (Male) Lamia (Met.  Trimalchio’s Zodiac platter (Petr. 35.1–5).” 
5.17–18).”   
  Fletcher, K., “The Role of Metamorphosis in Apuleius.”  Kyknos 
  Goldman, M. L., “The Challenge of Comic Intertextuality  Swansea and Lampeter Centre for Research on the Narrative 
in Petronius.”  Literatures of the Ancient World (www.kyknos.org.uk) 
  Research Seminar, Friday 2 March 2012 @ 6.00 p.m. 
Classical Association of the Middle West and South,  Room 130, Keir Hardie Building, 
109th Annual Meeting, 2013 April 17–20; Iowa City,  Swansea University 
Iowa  Professor Stephen Trzaskoma (University of New Hampshire): 
Panel: Heliodorus within and beyond the Canon  “Utopia and Uchronia in Chariton’s Callirhoe” 
  Ciocani, V., “Heliodorus’ Aethiopica and the Homeric   
Hymns to Demeter. Vichi Ciocani.”  Society of Biblical Literature, Chicago, IL, 
  Dowling, M., “Pythagoras and Heliodorus.”  11/16/2012 to 11/20/2012 
  Groves, R., “Teaching Heliodorus in the Greek Civiliza- Panel: Ancient Fiction and Early Christian and Jewish Nar-
tion Course.”  rative: Theme: Theme: Borders, Boundaries, Crossings 
  Knight, B., “Heliodorus and the Pleasures of Divination.”    Bloch, R., “Take Your Time: Conversion, Confidence and 
  Wasdin, K., “Catastrophe Survived in the Final Book of  Tranquility in Joseph and Aseneth.” 
Heliodorus’ Aethiopica.”    Eisen, U. E., “Metalepsis in Early Christian Literature.” 
Panel: Greek Fictions    Mirguet, F., “Emotions Retold: Emotional Discourse in 
  Eshelman, K., “‘Then Our Symposium Becomes a Gram- Judeo-Hellenistic Rewritten Bibles.” 
mar School’: Grammarians in Plutarch’s Table Talk.”    Petitfils, J., “A Tale of Two Moseses: Philo’s De Vita Mo-
  Hamilton, A. J., “Aesop’s Arrival in Japan.”  sis and Josephus’ Ant. 2–4 in light of the Roman Discourse 
  Goddard, A., “Dead Ends and Happy Endings in Xeno- of Exemplarity.” 
phon of Ephesus’ Anthia and Habrocomes.”    Schriever, D., “Fictive Informants and Omniscient Inter-
  McCloskey, B. O., “Gobryas’ Unreliable Speech; Cyro- ventions: Romance as Comparative Religion in the Ethio-
paedia 4.6.1–10.”  pian Story.” 
Panel: Prosaic Lessons  Panel: Ancient Fiction and Early Christian and Jewish Nar-
  Dee, N. M., “Encolpius the Theater Critic: Superficiality  rative: Theme: Teaching (with) the Ancient Novel 
and Hypocrisy in the Cena Trimalchionis.”    Konstan, D., “Teaching Eros through the Greek Novel.” 
  Panoussi, V., “Ritual Power and Male Impotence: Quar-   Lipsett, B. D., “Signature pedagogies for ancient fiction? 
tilla’s Rites in Petronius’ Satyrica.”  Paul and Thecla as test case.” 
  Poole, U. M., “Pruning the Vine of the Muses: Instructive    MacDonald, D. R., “Teaching Mimesis as a Criterion for 
Metaphor in Plutarch’s De audiendis poetis.”  Textual Criticism: The Case of the Gospel of Nicodemus.” 
  Severy-Hoven, B., “Encolpius Tyrannus: Reflections on    Matthews, S., “Teaching Fiction; Teaching Acts.” 
the First Person Narrator of the Satyrica.”    Pervo, R. I., “Wherever and Back on Two Tracks: Xan-
  Torresson, E., “Lucian’s Dialogues of the Courtesans: A  thippe.” 
“Lesson” for Every Reader.”   
Panel: Apuleius 
Obituaries 
  Adkins, E., “Rudis Locutor: Speech and Self-fashioning in 
Apuleius’ Metamorphoses.” 
  Brant, L. L., “The Impact of Social Class on Narration in  Peter Walsh (1923–2013) 
Apuleius’ Metamorphoses.”  Memorials to Professor Walsh can be found at  
  Libby, B. B., “The Curious Curiositas of Psyche in Apu- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/10013612/Peter-
leius’ Golden Ass.”  Walsh.html and  
  Winkle, J. T., “Necessary Roughness: Lucius as Plato’s  http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2013/jan/28/peter-
Black Horse in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses.”  walsh-obituary.
Description:Adkins, E., “Rudis Locutor: Speech and Self-fashioning in. Apuleius' Metamorphoses.” • Brant, L. L., “The Impact of Social Class on Narration in.