Oxford Readings in the Greek Novel

This book comprises a new and exciting collection of critical work on the ancient Greek novel. It offers students and researchers twelve of the most influential studies of recent years together with an introduction, by the editor, which explores the nature of the Greek novel in its historical context. The most important Greek quotations have been rendered into English making these texts easily accessible to readers without Greek.

Note on the Transliteration of Greek Names

xi

I: Introductory

A Century and More of the Greek Novel

3

(36)

S. Swain

II: General Studies

The Greek Novel

39

(21)

E. L. Bowie

The Conflict of Emotions: A Topos in the Greek Erotic Novel

60

(23)

M. Fusillo

Rural Society in the Greek Novel, or The Country Seen from the Town

83

(25)

S. Said

The Role of Women in the Greek Novel: Woman as Heroine and Reader

108

(29)

B. Egger

Callirhoe and Parthenope: The Beginnings of the Historical Novel

137

(26)

T. Hagg

III: Specific Studies

Theme, Structure and Narrative in Chariton

163

(26)

B. P. Reardon

Longus: Towards a History of Bucolic and its Function in the Roman Empire

189

(21)

B. Effe

The Novel of Longus the Sophist and the Pastoral Tradition

210

(33)

L. Cresci

Achilles Tatius and Ego-Narrative

243

(16)

B. P. Reardon

The Story of Knemon in Heliodoros' Aithiopika

259

(27)

J. R. Morgan

The Mendacity of Kalasiris and the Narrative Strategy of Heliodoros' Aithiopika

286

(65)

J. J. Winkler

The Mirror of the Moon: Lucian's A True Story---From Satire to Utopia

351

(31)

M. Fusillo

Bibliography

382

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