Philosophy and the ancient novel
By: edited by Marília P. Futre Pinheiro and Silvia Montiglio
Contributors: International Conference on the Ancient Novel (4th : 2008 : Lisbon, Portugal)
Series: Ancient narrative. Supplementum -- 20; Ancient narrative -- 20.
Publisher: Barkhuis
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Eelde, the Netherlands
Language: eng
Number of pages: 179
ISBN-13: 9789491431890
Subjects: Classical fiction; Congresses; History and criticism; Philosophy, Ancient, in literature
Description: The papers assembled in this volume explore a relatively new area in scholarship on the ancient novel: the relationship between an ostensibly non-philosophical genre and philosophy. This approach opens up several original themes for further research and debate. Platonising fiction was popular in the Second Sophistic and it took a variety of forms, ranging from the intertextual to the allegorical, and discussions of the origins of the novel-genre in antiquity have centred on the role of Socratic dialogue in general and Plato's dialogues in particular as important precursors. The papers in this collection cover a variety of genres, ranging from the Greek and Roman novels to utopian narratives and fictional biographies, and seek by diverse methods to detect philosophical resonances in these texts.
Notes: "The present volume contains ten expanded and revised papers presented at the Fourth International Conference on the Ancient Novel (ICAN IV), held in Lisbon at the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian in July 2008." -- Introduction, page ix.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.