Readers and writers in the ancient novel
By: edited by Michael Paschalis, Stelios Panayotakis, Gareth Schmeling.
Contributors: Paschalis, Michael.; Panayotakis, Stelios, 1968-; Schmeling, Gareth L.; Panepistēmio tēs Krētēs.
Series: Ancient narrative. Supplementum -- 12; Ancient narrative -- 12.
Publisher: Barkhuis Publishing; Groningen University Library
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Eelde; Groningen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9789077922545
Subjects: Classical literature -- History and criticism -- Congresses; Classical fiction -- History and criticism -- Congresses; Authors and readers -- History -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Notes: The papers represented in this volume were originally delivered at the fourth conference on 'Readers and Writers in the Ancient Novel' held at the University of Crete on 21-22 May 2007.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: The active reader and the ancient novel  -- David Konstan; title: Dialogues between readers and writers in Lucian's Verae Histioriae  -- Marília Futre Pinheiro; title: Divide and rule : segmenting Callirhoe and related works  -- Tim Whitmarsh; title: The curious incident-- : polypragmosyne and the ancient novel  -- Richard Hunter; title: Reading inscription in the ancient novel  -- Niall Slater; title: Cite and sound : the prosaics of quotation in the ancient novel  -- Stephen Nimis; title: Eumolpus the poet  -- Warreb S. Smith; title: Seneca's Apocolocyntosis and Petronius' Satyricon  -- Michael Paschalis; title: The uses of bookishness  -- Ewen Bowie; title: Readers writing readers, and writers reading writers : reflections of Antonius Diogenes  -- John Morgan; title: The author of the Alexander Romance  -- Richard Stoneman; title: Reading Diktys : the discreet charm of Bogosity  -- Ken Dowden; title: Apuleius and Homer : some traces of the Iliad in the Metamorphoses  -- Stephen Harrison; title: No success like failure : the task of the translator in Apuleius' Metamorphoses  -- Richard Fletcher; title: Roman fiction and its audience : seriocomic assertions of authority  -- Luca Graverini and Wytse Keulen; title: 'Food for thought' for readers of Apuleius' The Golden Ass  -- Maaike Zimmerman; title: To reason and to marvel : images of the reader in the Life of Apollonius  -- Jean-Philippe Guez; title: Hating Homer, fighting Virgil : books in Augustine's Confessions -- Vincent Hunink.