By Tim Whitmarsh
The Greek and Roman novels of Petronius, Apuleius, Longus, Heliodorus and others were loved for millennia, yet by no means extra so than now. The Cambridge spouse to the Greek and Roman Novel comprises nineteen unique essays via a world forged of specialists within the box. The emphasis is upon the serious interpretation of the texts inside ancient settings, either in antiquity and within the later generations which have been and remain encouraged by means of them. the entire vital problems with present scholarship are addressed: sexuality, cultural identification, classification, faith, politics, narrative, type, readership and lots more and plenty extra. 4 sections hide cultural context of the novels, their contents, literary shape, and their reception in classical antiquity and past. every one bankruptcy comprises suggestions on additional studying. This assortment could be crucial for students and scholars, in addition to for others who wish an up to date, obtainable creation into this exhilarating fabric.
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If by dreadful misfortune the single manuscript containing Chariton and Xenophon had perished it is perhaps comforting to think that the presence of the novel in the literature of the second sophistic would not have been charted only by the works of Achilles Tatius, Longus and Heliodorus, but also by Lucian, Pausanias and Philostratus. Latin novels The trajectory of Latin literature and its relation to the writing and reading of Latin novels is very different from what we have seen in the Greek world.
38, cf. 6. 34 Cambridge Collections Online © Cambridge University Press, 2008 Literary milieux constricted: but perhaps the constriction is simply in our own knowledge. Equally if Heliodorus were writing c. 270 or c. 370 a fuller understanding of Greek pagan literature of the time might allow us to see affinities that currently elude us. As to influence on other writing, the case is strongest for the impact of novels upon Lucian and Philostratus. The former has enjoyed a high reputation, albeit not principally for his narrative fictions, since the renaissance, and the latter’s high standing in the renaissance is now beginning to be regained.
Iamblichus’ narrative ran to at least sixteen books,41 so its bulk alone might have helped its ambiguous title to lead a reader or purchaser to expect a historical rather than novelistic work. 45 The delayed entry of Lucian to this plot should not be taken as a low evaluation of his importance. Of all Greek authors of the first and second centuries ce he shows most signs of writing in a literary environment where prose fiction was a significant player. Fictionality of various sorts and on differing scales can be found in almost all parts of Lucian’s oeuvre – produced between the 150s and early 180s ce, although few works can be precisely dated.