Holy men and charlatans in the ancient novel
By: edited by Stelios Panayotakis, Gareth Schmeling, and Michael Paschalis
Contributors: Panayotakis, Stelios, 1968- editor; Schmeling, Gareth L., editor; Paschalis, Michael, editor
Series: Ancient narrative. supplementum -- 19; Ancient narrative -- 19.
Publisher: Barkhuis; Groningen University Library
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Eelde, the Netherlands; Groningen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 211
ISBN-13: 9789491431906
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Impostors and imposture in literature; Mythology, Classical, in literature; Altertum; History and criticism; Classical fiction; Classical literature; Roman; Congresses; Priests in literature; Scharlatan; Heiliger
Description: "The present volume comprises the papers delivered at RICAN 6, which was held in Rethymnon, Crete, on May 30-31, 2011. The focus is placed on male and female characters in the ancient novel and related texts, both pagan and Christian; these characters are presented either as holy or as charlatans but in several cases the two categories cannot be easily distinguished from each other. The papers offer a wide and rich range of perspectives: authority in narratives and authority figures from Teiresias to Apollonius of Tyana as comparands for Kalasiris in Heliodorus (Dowden); the astrologer Serapa as a holy man in Petronius and Trimalchio's exploitation of Serapa's pronouncement and his prediction (Schmeling); the old hag Oenothea as a figure of religious authority and medical expertise in the Satyrica and Encolpius' failure to recognize her as a charlatan (Panayotakis); Cleitophon's claims to knowledge in Achilles Tatius and his apparent lack of understanding of his own narrative (Repath); religious authority in Daphnis and Chloe and the role of the exegetes ('expounder') in Longus' preface (Bowie); the Syrian priests and other religious charlatans in Apuleius' Metamorphoses and their appeal to the reader (Egelhaaf-Gaisser); the contrast in the representation of holy men and charlatans in Lucian's Peregrinus and the Christian Acts of Mar Mari (Ramelli); the controversial figure of Kalasiris in Heliodorus, a priest who behaves like a charlatan (Billault); Apollonius of Tyana as Proteus and Philostratus' contest with Homer in the Life of Apollonius (Paschalis); the similarities in the narrative structure of the biographies of Aesop and Jesus (Andreassi); narrative qualities and intertextuality in the Narrations attributed to Neilos of Ankyra; its interpretation as a conversion-narrative (Morgan)."--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: Papers delivered at a conference titled "Holy Men/Women and Charlatans in the Ancient Novel," the 6th conference in an ongoing series, Rethymnon International Conferences on the Ancient Novel (RICAN), held in Rethymnon, Crete on May 30-31, 2011.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Gareth Schmeling; title: Kalasiris, Apollonios of Tyana, and the lies of Teiresias / Ken Dowden; title: The small world of the holy man : a small beginning in the Satyrica / Gareth Schmeling; title: Encolpius and the charlatans / Costas Panayotakis; title: Cleitophon the charlatan / Ian Repath; title: A land without priests? : religious authority in Longus, Daphnis and Chloe / Ewen Bowie; title: Fickle coloured religion : charlatans and exegetes in Apuleius' Metamorphoses / Ulrike Egelhaaf-Gaiser; title: Lucian's peregrinus as holy man and charlatan and the construction of the contrast between holy men and charlatans in the Acts of Mari / Ilaria L.E. Ramelli; title: Holy man or charlatan? : the case of Kalasiris in Heliodorus' Aithiopika / Alain Billault; title: Apollonius of Tyana as Proteus : theios anēr or Master of Deceit? / Michael Paschalis; title: The Life of Aesop and the Gospels : literary motifs and narrative mechanisms / Mario Andreassi; title: The monk's story : the Narrationes of pseudo-Neilos of Ankyra / John Morgan.