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Andrade, Nathanael J. Syrian Identity in the Greco-Roman World. Greek Culture in the Roman World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Barnes, Timothy. Blackwell Ancient Lives. Malden, Mass.
Bauschatz, John. Law and Enforcement in Ptolemaic Egypt. Beck, Mark, ed. A Companion to Plutarch.
Cambridge Core - English Literature: General Interest - The Cambridge Companion to the The Cambridge Companion to the Greek and Roman Novel Studies, Literature; Collection: Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics. The Cambridge Companion to the Greek and Roman Novel. $ (P). Part of Cambridge Companions to Literature. Editor: Tim Whitmarsh, University of.
Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Blevins, Jacob.
Columbus: Ohio State University Press, Bodson, Liliane. Alpha-Omega Hildesheim: Olms-Weidmann, Galeno: Sobre la utilidad de las partes del cuerpo humano.
Chronologically the ancient world would extend from the beginning of the Bronze Age of ancient Greece ca. These studies introduce and synthesize the results of excavation or specialized studies. It is, however, the two Latin texts of Petronius and Apuleius that offer us the most visceral intertwining of corporeal and novelistic texture. Ahrensdorf, Peter J. A collection organized by theme that is explicitly intended to stimulate new thinking as well as to highlight key aspects of history writing in the Roman world. London ; Chicago : Fitzroy Dearborn, c Roman satires are explored both as generic, literary phenomena and as highly symbolic and effective social activities.
CAG Galeno 6. Champion, Michael W. Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity. Chartier, Roger. Lydia G. Cambridge: Polity Press, Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome.
Rome: American Academy, Davenport, Caillan, and Jennifer Manley. Fronto: Selected Letters. London: Bloomsbury, Denecke, Wiebke. Dewar, Michael. Classical Essays.
In the following chapter, a more conventional survey, L. Aldo Setaoli discusses poetry in the Satyrica , synthesizing his own findings in a series of articles to produce a helpful, immersive discussion. Niall Slater discusses the relationship between the various Ass narratives, including P. Finally in this section, Angela Holzmeister discusses ekphrasis. For all the erudite fun, these musings are not really handbook material. An anecdote on p. Ellen Finkelpearl turns to gender, setting up and then problematizing an opposition between the prima facie conservatism of the marriage-focused Greek romances and the more ludic exploratoriness of the Roman novels.
She also offers valuable warnings against hasty celebrations of the supposedly emancipatory nature of Christian gender constructs. Sophie Lalanne discusses gender acculturation in the Greek romances, recapitulating her argument that the romances are fundamentally gender-normative and modeled on a Gennepian rite de passage structure.
The Blackwell Companion is perhaps more sprawling and less systematic than its competitors, but it will surely find readers of its own. It offers a nice mixture of new discussions, including some that will be useful for students and the uninitiated, some that will provoke further research, and a number that will stand as important contributions to the field in their own right.
Schmeling ed. The Novel in the Ancient World , 2 nd ed. Leiden: Brill, Whitmarsh ed. See also J. Prag and I. Repath eds. See e. Rimell Petronius and the Anatomy of Fiction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Karla ed. Fiction on the Fringe.
Novelistic Writing in the Post-Classical Age. Leiden and Boston: Brill. Ramelli, I romanzi antichi e il Cristianesimo: contesto e contatti. Madrid: Signifer. Fowler, Kinds of Literature. I attempt such a dynamic model of novelistic genre in T. Berkeley: University of California Press,