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Achilles and Patroclus, 44 Aulus Gellius, 86–8 Achilles Tatius, Leucippe and Clitophon automata see wonder-culture/Hero of Alexandria as metatextual cityscape, Alexandria 185–91 book as trompe l’œil, 104 bee see metaliterary symbols Clitophon the fantasist, 103 Black Sea novels, 62 Clitophon as pornographic reader, 106 Bolus of Mendes, 158–64 dialectics of reading, 115 reading as deferral, 104 Callimachus, 10–13 Alexander of Abonuteichos, 274–5 Calvino, 33–4 Antonius Diogenes, The incredible things beyond centaur, 2–5, 11–12, 13 Thule Chariton, 42, 48–9 cypress-wood chest, 154–7 chain-gang episode, 56–7 dialectics of reading, 114–15 child see metaliterary symbols and Dictys’ Journal of the Trojan war, cicada see metaliterary symbols 153–6 Classicism, 1, 5, 6–17, 20–3, 35, 277 fact and fiction clay see metaliterary symbols tecnifiction, 166–7 contract of fiction, 68 Faustinus, 114 Ctesias, 86, 87 gendered reading, 115 Isidora, 114 dew see metaliterary symbols letter to Faustinus, 111–14 Dictys, Journal of the Trojan war, 151–6 letter to Isidora, 111 metafictional journey, 157–9 eclectic mimesis, 12–16 and Nabokov, 154–8 Eco narrative structure, 152–4 double-coding of text, 108–9 peritext, 152–4 Thenameoftherose, 126–31 and Pliny, Natural history, 166–7 curiosity/sexual desire, 129–31 preface, 114, 149–52 images of chaos, 139 pseudo-documentary fiction, 166–7 library, 127–8 and Scribonius Largus, 154–67 readers in the text, 138–42 source-references, 164–7 talking books, 142 title, 148–53 ‘Travels in hyperreality’, 216–34 Apuleius, Metamorphoses elephants, 3 dialectics of reading, 116 Eubiotus, 61–2 fatal charades, 275–6 reader in the text, 139–42 fiction talking books, 262–3 as play, 42 transformation of reader, 113 definition and theory of fiction, 28–9 Aristides’ Milesian Tales, 42, 47 invention of fiction, 29

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flowers see metaliterary symbols book divisions, 177–83, 229–30 fluidity of novelistic narrative, 61–3 preface, 146–9 titles, 146–50 Galen, 167–70 Portraits dialogues, 177 forgery, 124 psychology of fiction, 30 On the nature of semen, 167–9 theory of fiction, 31–5 Geryon, 35, 41 globalization, 25–6 meadow see metaliterary symbols gnomai¯ , 46 Mesomedes, 276–7 Gorgias, 75–8 metaliterary symbols gout, 86 bee, 12 child, 11 Harpocration see Kyranides cicada, 11, 13 Heliodorus, Ethiopian tales, 198–202 clay, 3, 5, 6, 13, 20–3 materiality of text, 193–200 dew, 11 tainia and peritext, 185–202 flowers, 12, 15 Hero of Alexandria, On automata, nightingale, 11, 13 265–9 ocean, 11 and hyperreality, 270 pot, 20 hippocentaur see centaur sculpture, 14–17 Historia Augusta, 125, 276–7 Telchines, 11, 13 homoerotic plots, 44 untrodden path, 11 hybridity, 3–6, 7–8, 11–20, 35, 40–1 urn, 22 water-imagery, 11 imprisonment, 55–7 wax, 20–3 innovation see novelty microfiction, 42–3, 71 mim¯esis, 4–8, 15–17, 23 Kyranides, 161–5 modernity, 1–2, 6, 8–13, 24 in classical literature, 9 Lobon of Argos, 123 in Hellenistic literature, 9–11 Longus, Daphnis and Chloe, 192–4 in Homer Odyssey, 8 city as peritextual marker, 183–91 dialectics of reading, 115–16 Nabokov ending, 191–4 Pale fire, 156–8 doors, 188–93 Thule/Zembla, 157–8 explicit, 193–4 Niceros pseudo-documentary fiction, 167–88 werewolf tale, 96 Lucian nightingale see metaliterary symbols and Eco, 35, 137–43, 232–4 novel-reading in antiquity, 101–2 epigram ‘on his own book’, 167–70 novella, 43 and Galen, 169–70 novels and textuality, 126, 146 and Greek language, 35 novelty, 1–17 and Greek novels, 39–71 Heraclitean forgery, 124 ocean see metaliterary symbols Icaromenippus see True Stories Onos, 142–3 Life of Alexander of Abonuteichos, 272–5 bedroom door, 136 as marginal figure, 34–6, 38 curiosity/sexual desire, 131–3 on material text, 145–8 epitome theory/ text network theory, 137 and originality, 4–6, 8, 23, 26 metamorphosis and fiction, 133–4 Parthian war historians, 148–50 Palaistra, 134–6 on performance contexts (oral/written), 137, Palaistra/Jorge of Burgos, 137–8 148 sexual frame, 134 on peritext, 149–50 the unwritten novel Bird, 136 authorial name, 171–7 witch’s chest, 137–8

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pantomime, 18–20 imaginary library, 122–3 Parthenius, 42 and miscellany, 119 Parthian war historians see Lucian ‘new mythology’, 121 peritext in antiquity, 200–5 prologue, 117–20 Petronius, Satyrica source-citation, 120–4 hyperreality, 251–60 puppetry see wonder-culture Trimalchio the technophile, 277 Philopseudes Quintilian art/poetry as deception, 77–8 source-references, 125 deceptive book, 90–1 dialogic frame, 84–6 Roman empire, 44–9 embedded readers, 105–6 rumour, 47 ethics of lying, 76–9 gastronomic metaphor, 86 Scribonius Largus, 112–13 inebriation, 88 Compounds, 166–7 literary lies, 80–1 sculpture see metaliterary symbols magical books, 93 Scythia as liminal space, 66 material text, 89–91, 99–100 Scythians, 65–6 oral narrative, 94–7 sea-storm narratives, 51–5 Platonic presences self-condemnation, 56 Hippias Minor, 78–9 semiotic ﬁction, 110 Laws, 79–80 detective novel, 110 Phaedo, 74, 91 voyage of discovery, 110 Philopseudes, 74–80 shipwreck survivors, 53–5 Republic, 75–6 spectacle see wonder-culture Symposium, 74 syntagmatic/paradigmatic desire, 109 rabies/contagion of lies, 88–9 reading apista, 93–4 talking books see Eco, The name of the rose and recreational reading, 92–3 Apuleius, Metamorphoses secluded reading, 97–8, 99–102 Telchines see metaliterary symbols theories about ghosts, 91–2 theatrical metaphor, 45 therapeutic reading, 100–1 Timotheus, 9, 13 Tychiades as ambivalent narrator, 82–3 Toxaris Philostratus, Heroicus, 264–5 abridgement theory, 62–4 Phlegon of Tralles, 42 aetiological digression, 61 Plato autodiegetic narrator, 67 allegory of the cave, 264–70; see also and Iamblichus’ Babylonian tales, 70–1 Philopseudes, True stories narratives of deception, 64 pleasure of the pseudos, 73–4 novel-reading, 70 Pliny, Natural history oaths, 68–70 summarium, 166–7 oral improvisation, 63–5 ‘poetics of innovation’ see modernity trial scene, 56–7 postclassical, 33 True stories, 181–5 postclassicism, 2, 8–17, 22–7 ampelomixia, 206–15 postmodernism, 2, 8–27 Ass-Legs and the literary canon, 213–16 pots see metaliterary symbols book division, 216–30 prolaliai, 1–6, 13, 20–3, 32, 33–4, 36 closure, 171–83 Prometheus, 2, 3–8, 13, 19–23, 38, 277 dialectics of reading, 116 ps.-Democritus see Bolus of Mendes and the dynamics of mimesis, 215–16 ps.-Thessalus of Tralles and Eco, ‘Travels in hyperreality’, On the virtues of plants, 158–63 230–4 pseudo-documentary ﬁction, 163–5 ending Ptolemy Chennus, Novel history, 116–26 Galen, 167–70 female dedicatee, 118 Thucydides, 160, 169

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True stories (cont.) ugly women, 58–9 Homer’s lost epic, 232–9 untrodden path see metaliterary symbols and Icaromenippus, 211–19, 221–2 and The incredible things beyond Thule, 182–5 violence, 46 interviews with Homer, 235–40, 244 Tigranes of Babylon, 232–40 water see metaliterary symbols Island of Dreams, 227–32 wax see metaliterary symbols Isle of the Blessed, 245–50 wonder-culture, 277; see also Hero of Alexandria canonical world, 244–5 automata, 269–70 Homer, 243–5 collections of wonders, 263–4 hyperreality, 240–50 Commodus the technophile, 276–7 imperial literary culture, 243–8 fatal charades and hyperreality, 270–2 Plato, 237–43 ‘freak-market’ at Rome, 275–6 Lucian’s inscription, 253–8 giant bones, 263–5 lunar mirror, 222–7 hippocentaur, 262–3 ‘encyclopaedic mirror’, 222–6 hybrid monsters, 265 mirrors and mimesis, 221–4 in imperial fiction, 277 lunar philosophies, 208–20 Apuleius, 275–6 mimetic worlds, 229–32 Mesomedes, 276–7 moon, 226–7 Petronius, 277 artificiality, 218–21 performing animals, 271–4 mirror-world, 217–21 Potheinos the puppet-master, 269–70 Odysseus’ letter, 240–5, 254 religious wonders and holy men, 275 hypertextuality, 248–54 satyrs, 260, 262–4 and Old Comedy, 167–74 shadow-puppetry, 266–70 and Petronius, Satyrica, 254–60 street-entertainers, 271–5 Plato’s allegory of the cave, 221–9 technology of wonder, 266–71 prologue, 195, 208 tritons, 260, 263 and ps.-Longinus, On the sublime, 202, 215 tecnifiction, 167–70 Xenophon of Ephesus, 49–51 Vine-women and the literary canon, 215–16 world inside the whale, 228–30 Zeuxis, 3–5, 10, 13, 15–17, 78

Index locorum

Achilles Tatius Dictys, prologue, 154–6 Leucippe and Clitophon 1.2.2, 85, 115 Diodorus Siculus 4.8.4, 265 Leucippe and Clitophon 1.6, 103–5 Dionysius of Halicarnassus Leucippe and Clitophon 1.7.4–5, 59 On imitation p. 31.1–3 Aujac, 14 Leucippe and Clitophon 1.9.4–5, 224 On imitation p. 32.4–5, 14–16 Leucippe and Clitophon 3.1–5, 51–5 Leucippe and Clitophon 5.1, 191 Galen Leucippe and Clitophon 5.13–15, 224 On the causes of disease,p.41 Kuhn,¨ 170 Aelian On the diagnosis of the pulse,p.961 Kuhn,¨ History of animals 11.40, 263 170 Antonius Diogenes, The incredible things beyond On difﬁculties in respiration,p.960 Kuhn,¨ Thule 170 P. D u b l . C 3, Col. II, 51–5 On the dissection of the uterus,p.908 Kuhn,¨ Photius, Bibl. 110b 16–19, 153 169 Photius, Bibl. 111a 7–11, 185 On maintaining good health,p.452 Kuhn,¨ Photius, Bibl. 111a 30–40, 112–14 169–70 Photius, Bibl. 111a, 184 On the nature of semen,p.525 Kuhn,¨ 167–9 Photius, Bibl. 111b 21–2, 156 Gorgias Apuleius DK b 23, 78 Apology 14, 223 Metamorphoses 1.1, 142 Heliodorus Metamorphoses 1.4.2–3, 276 Ethiopian tales 2.31.2, 198 Metamorphoses 2.2, 131 Ethiopian tales 4.8.1, 195 Metamorphoses 2.32–3.11, 276 Ethiopian tales 4.8.1–2, 200 Aulus Gellius Ethiopian tales 10.13.1, 198 Attic nights 9.4, 86–8 Ethiopian tales 10.41.4, 182, 200 Hero of Alexandria Calligone, 61–2 On automata 2.12, 266 Callimachus On automata 3–4, 266 Aetia prologue, 11, 12–13 On automata 4.4, 267 Hymn to Apollo 106–12, 11–13 On automata 23.8, 269 Calpurnius Siculus On automata 24.1, 269 Eclogues 7.69–72, 271 On automata 24.1–2, 269 Cassius Dio 76.1.4, 271 On automata 24–30, 267–8 Chariton Historia Augusta Chaereas and Callirhoe 1.4, 45–6 Carinus 19.2, 271 Chaereas and Callirhoe 1.5.2, 44 Pertinax 8.6–7, 277 Chaereas and Callirhoe 4.2, 56–7 Tacitus 8.1, 125 Chaereas and Callirhoe 4.2.1–3, 44 History of Apollonius King of Tyre 34, 101 Chaereas and Callirhoe 8.1.4–5, 100–1 Chaereas and Callirhoe 8.4–8.5, 97–102 Jerome Chaereas and Callirhoe 8.8.16, 182 Life of Paul 8, 264 303

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Longus Toxaris 44–55, 60–6 Daphnis and Chloe,pref.4, 115–16, 189 Toxaris 56, 69–70 Daphnis and Chloe 1.1, 188 Toxaris 57–60, 66–7 Daphnis and Chloe 1.32, 190 Toxaris 62, 41 Daphnis and Chloe 2.39, 190 True stories 1.1–4, 206–8 Daphnis and Chloe 4.39–40, 192–4 True stories 1.2, 172 Daphnis and Chloe 4.40.3, 182 True stories 1.2–3, 184 Lucian True stories 1.3, 172–3 A professor in public speaking 9, 209 True stories 1.4, 184 A professor in public speaking 17, 124–5 True stories 1.5, 181 A professor in public speaking 20, 21–2 True stories 1.7, 169–70, 209 Apology 1–7, 21 True stories 1.7–9, 211–15 Apology 3, 147 True stories 1.8, 212–15 Dialogues of the Gods 5.2, 7–8 True stories 1.22–4, 219–20 Epigram [IV, 85] 1 (Photius, Bibl. 96b 7–11), True stories 1.22–5, 221 171–2 True stories 1.26, 221–7 Fisherman 25–6, 147–8 True stories 1.29, 173–4 Icaromenippus 15–19, 222 True stories 1.31–3, 227 Icaromenippus 20, 218 True stories 1.33, 227–8 In defence of portraits 1–12, 16–17 True stories 1.39, 228 On the dance 19, 18–20 True stories 1.42, 182 On an ignorant book-collector 16, 148 True stories 2.1, 182, 229 On hired scholars 1, 53–4 True stories 2.6–7, 246 On how to write history 15, 149 True stories 2.6–10, 241 On how to write history 16, 149 True stories 2.10, 246 On how to write history 32, 149–50 True stories 2.12–13, 240 On how to write history 53–4, 149 True stories 2.17, 241, 242–3, 246 On how to write history 55, 149 True stories 2.18, 246 On how to write history 62, 170 True stories 2.20, 235–40 Onos 3–4, 131–2 True stories 2.21, 246 Onos 4, 131 True stories 2.22, 240 Onos 4–5, 132–3 True stories 2.23, 241 Onos 11–12, 135–8 True stories 2.24, 239 Philopseudes 1, 75–6, 85 True stories 2.25–6, 241 Philopseudes 2, 85, 174–5, 265 True stories 2.27, 246 Philopseudes 2–3, 80–3 True stories 2.28, 169–70, 171, 176, 247, Philopseudes 5, 84–5, 90–1 254–8 Philopseudes 6, 85–6 True stories 2.29, 244–5, 253 Philopseudes 27, 89, 91 True stories 2.31, 173–4 Philopseudes 30–1, 91–4 True stories 2.32–5, 230–2 Philopseudes 32, 93–4 True stories 2.33, 231 Philopseudes 39, 86 True stories 2.34, 230 Philopseudes 39–40, 88–9 True stories 2.35, 244–5, 251–4 Portraits 5, 15–16 True stories 2.46, 215–16 Portraits 10, 177 True stories 2.47, 169–70, 182–3 Prometheus 12–16, 7 You are a literary Prometheus 2, 20–3 Toxaris 10, 40, 44 You are a literary Prometheus 3, 5 Toxaris 11–12, 68 You are a literary Prometheus 5, 5 Toxaris 12–18, 43–9 You are a literary Prometheus 7, 5–6 Toxaris 19, 69 Zeuxis 7, 3 Toxaris 19–21, 49–55 Toxaris 24, 69 Martial Toxaris 24–6, 57–60 Liber spectaculorum 5, 272 Toxaris 27–34, 55–7 Liber spectaculorum 5.1–2, 274 Toxaris 38, 69 Liber spectaculorum 8, 272

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Liber spectaculorum 21, 271–2 Natural history 9.4.9–11, 262 Liber spectaculorum 30, 273 Natural history 10.2.5, 263 Mesomedes, fr. 13, 276 Pliny the Younger Mesomedes, frr. 7–8, 276 Letters 7.27, 92–3 Plutarch Pausanias 2.21.6–7, 263 Life of Sulla 27, 262 Pausanias 9.20.4–21.1, 262 Moralia 520c, 276 Petronius On how to read poetry 15d, 77–8 Satyrica 26, 277 On how to read poetry 16a–17d, 77 Satyrica 26.4–5, 101 Polybius 12.12.4–6, 77 Satyrica 34, 277 ps.-Longinus Satyrica 35, 277 On the sublime 13.2, 14, 213–15 Satyrica 39, 276 ps.-Lucian Satyrica 50–1, 276 Amores 15–17, 101 Satyrica 60, 277 Ptolemy Chennus, Novel history Satyrica 61–3, 95–6 Photius, Bibl. 146a–b, 117–20 Philostratus Photius, Bibl. 146b35–8, 120 Heroicus 7.9–12, 265 Heroicus 8, 265 Quintilian Phlegon of Tralles Oratorical instruction 1.8.18–21, 125 Incredible tales 34–5, 263 Incredible tales,fr.1, 101 Seneca Plato Natural questions 1.16.8–9, 223–4 Laws 730c 1–6, 79 Statius Republic 514a1–517c6, 228–9 Silvae 2.5, 273 Republic 535d9–e5, 76–7 Strabo 6.273, 271 Republic 596d4–e4, 222 Suetonius Sophist 240a–c, 222–3 Life of Claudius 21.6, 271 Theaetetus 193c–d, 222 Pliny the Elder Xenophon of Ephesus Natural history 5.8.44–6, 263 An Ephesian tale 3.2, 49–51 Natural history 7.2.24, 263 An Ephesian tale 3.12.1, 52 Natural history 7.3.35, 263 An Ephesian tale 3.12.3–6, 59