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{"title":"Centaurs at the Symposium: Two Types of Hybridity in Lucian","authors":"M. Hancock","doi":"10.21827/5c643a984ddec","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21827/5c643a984ddec","url":null,"abstract":"Two dialogues of Lucian are discussed in order to further evaluate the critique of contemporary philosophy that so often pervades the author’s satirical works. In Lucian’s Zeuxis and Symposium, the reader is offered two distinct ‘versions’ of the hybrid animal. In the first instance, the traditionally uncivilised centaur is portrayed as almost human in nature and representative of successful hybridity, while the hybrid philosopher-sophist is a corruption of the ideal form.Megan Hancock is a PhD candidate at the University of Tasmania, and her research interests are primarily focussed around the figure of Lucian. Her doctoral thesis assesses the role of hybridity throughout Lucian’s works, and to demonstrate the means by which this theme informs his critique of the philosophers of the Second Sophistic. She is the 2018 recipient of the Tasmanian Friends of the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens Greek Scholarship, allowing her to study in Greece in the later part of the year.","PeriodicalId":193009,"journal":{"name":"Ancient narrative","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117009024","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Iamblichos’ Babyloniaka, the Greek Novel and Satire","authors":"N. Kanavou","doi":"10.21827/5C643AA223D0A","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21827/5C643AA223D0A","url":null,"abstract":"Iamblichos’ lost novel of love and horror, as we know it from its Byzantine summary and a few manuscript fragments, is firmly footed in the tradition of the Greek romance, as well as possessing an oriental flair. The present article summarises the similarities of the Babyloniaka (2nd c. AD) to the extant romances and draws attention to a number of hitherto unnoticed points of contact between this novel and Achilles Tatios’ Leukippe and Kleitophon (also 2nd c. AD). It is then argued that, like Achilles’ novel, the Babyloniaka plays with humour and parody in the characterisation of its heroes, its erotic ideology and its exaggerated presentation of the horrific and the supernatural.Nikoletta Kanavou holds a research fellowship of the German Research Foundation (DFG) at the University of Heidelberg. Her most recent publications include an article on the short fragmentary narrative Panionis (Archiv für Papyrusforschung 64/1, 13-31), as well as a monograph on the fictitious biography of Apollonius of Tyana by Philostratus (Philostratus’ Life of Apollonius of Tyana and its Literary Context, C.H. Beck 2018).","PeriodicalId":193009,"journal":{"name":"Ancient narrative","volume":"52 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121664023","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Tra fonti erudite e lettori ordinari: una traduzione seicentesca del Satyricon","authors":"Corinna Onelli","doi":"10.21827/5c643a8525e4b","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21827/5c643a8525e4b","url":null,"abstract":"The paper presents a 17th-century translation of the Satyricon into Italian transmitted in manuscript. The translation is anonymous and presumably was intended for the illegal market of clandestine manuscripts. Material evidence shows that the translation actually circulated across time and among popular readers. The comparison between the Italian translation and 16th – and 17th editions of Petronius has revealed that the translator started his work on the obsolete text of the excerpta brevia (that is, the Satyricon as published before1575) and then shifted to the the excerpta longiora tradition, likely using the Satyricon edition published in 1601 (reprinted in 1608). Such a mixture of source texts proves the translator’s total lack of philological accuracy. In addition, he made several translation errors. However, surprisingly enough, the Italian translation underpins an excellent work of textual criticism on Petronius’ text. The suggested explanation is that the translator or a later reviser emendated the translation following a highly specialised commentary. Some translation errors, in fact, can be explained only as critical indications that have been completely misunderstood. The papers concludes putting in relation the success of the Satyricon among 17th-century popular readers with its reception as a subversive parody of the Greek novel and its traditional values.I have a PhD in Italian Studies (2006) from the Università RomaTre of Rome. Currently, I am a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the EHESS in Paris. My recent research interests are focused on the Early Modern Period; more specifically, on the translation and receptions of Classics and the circulation of heterodox texts. I am working at the research project Popular readers and clandestine literature: the case of an early modern translation of Petronius’ Satyricon into Italian (17th C.) funded by Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions, and, more broadly, I am exploring the 17th-c. success of the Satyricon and its reception as a novel and as a satire.Affiliation: Post-doctoral Research Fellow at the Centre des Recherches Historiques of the EHESS in Paris (research group: Grihl – Groupe de Recherches Interdisciplinaires sur l’Histoire du Littéraire ).Relevant publications:‘La retorica dell’esperimento: per una rilettura delle Esperienze intorno alla generazione degl’insetti di Francesco Redi (1668)’, Italian Studies (2017), 72, 1, 41-56.Bartolomeo Beverini (1629-1686) e una versione inedita della Metafisica di Aristotele’, in L. Bianchi, J. Kraye and S. Gilson (eds), Vernacular Aristotelianism in Italy from the Fourteenth to Seventeenth Century, London, The Warburg Institute, 2016, 183-208.‘Freedom and censorship: Petronius’ Satyricon in seventeenth-century Italy’, Classical Receptions Journal (2014), 6. 1, 104-130.‘Con oscurità mutando in nomi: Napoli epicurea nei Successi di Eumolpione (1678)’, California Italian Studies (2012), 3. 1, https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2tr7x1nd.","PeriodicalId":193009,"journal":{"name":"Ancient narrative","volume":"123 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-05-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115186740","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Curious Incident …: polypragmosyne and the Ancient Novel","authors":"Richard Hunter","doi":"10.1515/9783110210309.2.4.884","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110210309.2.4.884","url":null,"abstract":"This essay examines some of the ways in which ancient novelists exploit and dramatise the polypragmosyne and curiosity of their characters, thus also suggesting a link between such curiosity and the practice of reading novels itself. The principal texts considered are the  Life of Aesop , in which the search for a man completely without curiosity is an important episode, the Satyrica of Petronius in which ‘curiosity' runs riot at Trimalchio's dinner-party, and Apuleius' Metamorphoses , where the central character suffers for his curiosity and the whole novel advertises the  polypragmosyne of the literary interpreter. The investigation is set within the context of Plutarch's essay ‘On  polypragmosyne '. Richard Hunter is Regius Professor of Greek at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity College. His research interests include ancient comedy, the novel, Hellenistic poetry and its reception in Rome, and ancient literary criticism. His most recent books are  The Shadow of Callimachus (Cambridge 2006) and  Critical Moments in Classical Literature (Cambridge 2009). Many of his essays have been collected in  On Coming After: Studies in Post-Classical Greek Literature and its Reception (Berlin 2008).","PeriodicalId":193009,"journal":{"name":"Ancient narrative","volume":"61 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128294451","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Lucius bei den Phäaken: Zum νόστος-Motiv in Apuleius, Met. 11","authors":"B. Beer","doi":"10.5167/UZH-36241","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5167/UZH-36241","url":null,"abstract":"Apuleius’ novel Metamorphoses draws on a wide range of literary models and especially on Homer’s Odyssey . This article shows that the Phaeacians episode functions as a subtext for Lucius’ encounter with Isis in chapters 1–15 of Met. 11. By its extension this literary model provides a narratological structure for the description of Lucius’ re-transformation into human figure. It furthermore elucidates several questions in Met . 11 that hitherto have been difficult to explain, among them Lucius’ bath in the sea, his lament about a goddess’ wrath or the celebration of the ploiaphesia . The Phaeacians episode by its nostos motif in conclusion allows us to interpret Met. 11 as Lucius’ return to human shape. Beate Beer is currently assistant at the institute of Classics at the University of Zurich. She has worked on Epicureanism and published on Lucretius and Philodemus. In her recently published monograph she investigates Lucretius’ poetics in the context of Philodemus’ poetological theory ( Lukrez und Philodem: Poetische Argumentation und poetologischer Diskurs , Basel: Schwabe 2010).","PeriodicalId":193009,"journal":{"name":"Ancient narrative","volume":"81 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130274440","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Mythos, Fiktion, Geschichte: Ein Beitrag zum 'Realismus' der antiken Romane","authors":"S. Tilg","doi":"10.5167/UZH-39647","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5167/UZH-39647","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper I argue that the description of literary narrative in ancient rhetoric could have provided Greek and Roman novelists with a critical vocabulary, and that this vocabulary is reflected in their works. The major category by or against which novelists define their writing turns out to be μῦθος / fabula , which implies the idea of an unreal and unlikely narrative. I analyze the most significant passages and conclude that the first novels, which were posing as history, avoided looking unreal and unlikely, while later novelists were free to play with the concept of μῦθος / fabula on an individual basis. Given that exactly the Roman novels (and Achilles Tatius) are most defined by μῦθος / fabula , my result also questions our modern critical vocabulary according to which these novels are often called ‘realistic’. Stefan Tilg holds an Ambizione scholarship of the Swiss National Science Foundation and is hosted by the Klassisch-Philologisches Seminar of the University of Zurich. He is the author of Chariton of Aphrodisias and the Invention of the Greek Love Novel (Oxford 2010) and is currently writing a monograph on Apuleius’ Metamorphoses .","PeriodicalId":193009,"journal":{"name":"Ancient narrative","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120960963","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"'Philip the Philosopher' on the Aithiopika of Heliodorus","authors":"R. Hunter","doi":"10.1515/9783110210309.2.4.829","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110210309.2.4.829","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":193009,"journal":{"name":"Ancient narrative","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127227327","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Petronius, Seneca and Lucan: A Neronian Literary Feud?","authors":"J. Sullivan","doi":"10.2307/2935857","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/2935857","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":193009,"journal":{"name":"Ancient narrative","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2006-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115522864","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Sacrificing the Family: Christian Martyrs and Their Kin","authors":"K. Bradley","doi":"10.3138/9781442688384-009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442688384-009","url":null,"abstract":"Sporadic evidence of the impact of the rise of Christianity on traditional family relationships in the Roman world is detectable in the Acts of the Christian Martyrs . The evidence is examined in this essay, which concludes that Christianity required of those prepared to die for their beliefs a willing­ness to abandon family obligations and to embrace spiritual bonds of a new kind that threatened to subvert conventional family structures, as individualistic concerns gradually came to predominate over communal family ties.","PeriodicalId":193009,"journal":{"name":"Ancient narrative","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120965673","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}