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THE PETRONIAN SOCIETY NEWSLETTER Editorial Board / Colofon 1 ICAN V ICAN V Call for Papers: Proposals are hereby solicited for pa- ICAN V 1 pers for the Fifth International Conference on the Ancient Novel (ICAN V), 30 September – 4 October 2015. Bibliography 4 The web page for the conference can be found at www.uhd.edu/ican. Notices 14 The title is “From Tradition to Re-wiring the Ancient Novel.” The conference will be held at the Hyatt Regency Houston, Obituaries 15 1200 Louisiana Street, Houston, TX 77002, USA. All sessions for reading papers are in the Hyatt. The Hyatt will start accept- Reviews, Articles, and Dissertations 15 ing registrations in December 2014. Deadline for abstracts is 1 March 2015, and decisions about acceptance will be made soon thereafter. Reviews, Articles, and Dissertations Vol. 42, October 2014 If you have any ideas, suggestions, or would like to help in the planning of the conference, do not hesitate to contact me. Ed Cueva. Editor Edmund P. Cueva Arts and Humanities 1009S-E Bibliography University of Houston-Downtown One Main Street Greek and Latin Novels Houston, TX 77002, USA Tel. (713) 226-5543 Futre Pinheiro, M., A. Bierl, and R. Beck. Intende, Lector: email: [email protected] Echoes of Myth, Religion and Ritual in the Ancient Novel (Ber- lin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2013) ix + 319. The following es- Book Review Editor says are included in the collection: Shannon N. Byrne Atkin, J., “Puella Virgo: Rites of Passage in Apuleius’ Classics Department, Xavier University Metamorphoses.” 3800 Victory Parkway Bierl, A., “From Mystery to Initiation: A Mytho-Ritual Cincinnati, OH 45207–5181, USA Poetics of Love and Sex in the Ancient Novel – even in Tel. (513) 745–3456, Fax (513) 745–1955 Apuleius’ Golden Ass?” email: [email protected] Bierl, A., “Myth and the Novel: Introductory Remarks and Comments on the Roundtable.” Editor Emeritus (1970-2005) Bremmer, J. N., “Myth in the Novel: Some Observations.” Gareth Schmeling Cueva, E., “The Literary Myth in the Novel.” Dept of Classics, University of Florida Futre Pinheiro, M. P., “Myths in the Novel: Gender, Vio- Gainesville, Florida 32611–7435, USA lence and Power.” Tel. (352) 392–2075, Fax (352) 846–0297 Graf, F., “Novel and Mythology–Contribution to a Round email: [email protected] Table.” Griffith, R. D., “Shamans and Charlatans: Magic, Mixups, Associate editors Literary Memory in Apuleius’ Golden Ass Book.” Raymond Astbury, Barry Baldwin, Ewen Bowie, Kasyan, M. S., “The Bees of Artemis Ephesia and the Gian Biagio Conte, Niklas Holzberg, Gerald Sandy Apocalyptic Scene in Joseph and Aseneth.” Lefteratou, A., “Iphigenia Revisited: Heliodorus’ Aethi- opica and the ‘Der Tod und das Mädchen’ Pattern.” Petronian Sociey Newsletter 42, October 2014 2 Lippman, M., “False Fortuna: Religious Imagery and the Létoublon, F., “Mythological Paradigms in the Greek Painting-Gallery Episode in the Satyricon.” Novels.” Massima, A. and V. Pizzone, “The Tale of a Dream: Onei- Montiglio, S., “‘His eyes stood as though of horn or steel’: ros and Mythos in the Greek Novel.” Odysseus’ Fortitude and Moral Ideals in the Greek Nov- Monella, P., “‘Non humana viscera sed centies sestertium els.” comesse’ (Petr. Sat. 141,7): Philomela and the Cannibal Paschalis, M., “The Basic Plot of Callirhoe: History, Heredipetae in the Crotonian Section of Petronius’ Satyr- Myth, and Aristotelian Poetics.” icon.” Rosati, G., “The Loves of the Gods: Literature as Con- Nelson, M., “Lucius’s Rose: Symbolic or Sympathetic struction of a Space of Pleasure.” Cure?” Selden, D. L., “The Political Economy of Romance in Late Ramelli, I. L. E., “Apuleius and Christianity: The Novel- Period Egypt.” ist-Philosopher in front of a New Religion.” Whitmarsh, T., “The Erotics of mimēsis: Gendered Aes- Sabnis, S., “Donkey Gone to Hell: A Katabasis Motif in thetics in Greek Theory and Fiction.” Apuleius’ Metamorphoses.” Zeitlin, F., “Landscapes and Portraits: Signs of the Un- Solinas, G., “From the Legend of Cupid and Psyche to the canny and Illusions of the Real.” Novel of Mélusine: Myth, Novel and Twentieth Century Adaptations.” Whitmarsh, T. Beyond the Second Sophistic: Adventures in Suárez de la Torre, E. and E. Pérez Benito, “Love, Mys- Greek Postclassicism (Berkeley: University of California teries and Literary Tradition: New Experiences and Old Press, 2013) xiii + 278 pp. Frames.” Tommasi Moreschini, C. O., “Gnostic Variations on the Whitmarsh, T., and S. Thomson. The Romance between Tale of Cupid and Psyche.” Greece and the East (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge Whitmarsh, T., “Greek Novel and Local Myth.” University Press, 2013) xii + 396. The following essays are in- Zimmerman, M., “Mythical Repertoire and Its Functions cluded in the collection: in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses.” Avlamis, P., “Does triviality translate?: the Life of Aesop travels East.” Hodkinson, O., P. A. Rosenmeyer, and E. Bracke. Epistolary Barbour, J., “The eastern king in the Hebrew Bible: nov- Narratives in Ancient Greek Literature (Leiden and Boston: elistic motifs in early Jewish literature.” Brill, 2013) xi + 412. The following relevant essays are inclu- Bowie, E., “Milesian tales.” ded in the collection: Dalley, S., “The Greek novel Ninus and Semiramis: its Mclarty, J., “The Function of the Letter Form in Christian background in Assyrian and Seleucid history and monu- Martyrdom Accounts.” ments.” Morgan, J., “The Epistolary Ghost Story in Phlegon of Dillery, J., “Manetho.” Tralles.” Harrison, S., “Milesiae Punicae: how Punic was Apu- Repath, I., “Yours Truly? Letters in Achilles Tatius.” leius?” Whitmarsh, T., “Addressing Power: Fictional Letters Be- Haubold, J., “Berossus.” tween Alexander and Darius.” Kim, L., “Orality, folktales and the cross-cultural trans- mission of narrative.” Paschalis, M., and S. Panayotakis. The Construction of the Real Kneebone, E., “Josephus’ Esther and diaspora Judaism.” and the Ideal in the Ancient Novel, RICAN V, Ancient Narra- Mheallaigh, K. Ní, “Lost in translation: the Phoenician tive Supplementum 17 (Eelde, The Netherlands: Barkhuis Pu- Journal of Dictys of Crete.” blishing; Groningen: Groningen University Library, 2013) xvi Rutherford, I., “Greek fiction and Egyptian fiction: are + 312. The following relevant essays are included in the col- they related, and, if so, how?” lection: Ryholt, K., “Imitatio Alexandri in Egyptian literary tradi- Bowie, E., “Caging Grasshoppers: Longus’ Materials for tion.” Weaving ‘Reality’.” Selden, D. L., “Iskander and the idea of Iran.” Carver, R., “Between Photis and Isis: Fiction, Reality, and Stephens, S., “Fictions of cultural authority.” the Ideal in The Golden Ass of Apuleius.” Tagliabue, A., “The victory of Greek Ionia in Xenophon’s Doody, M., “Comedy in Heliodoros’ Aithiopika.” Ephesiaca.” Dowden, K., “‘But there is a difference in the ends...’: Vasunia, P., “History, empire and the novel: Pierre-Daniel Brigands and Teleology in the Ancient Novel.” Huet and the origins of the romance.” König, J., “Landscape and Reality in Apuleius’ Metamor- Webb, R., “Mime and the romance.” phoses.” West, S., “Divine anger management: the Greek version Labate, M., “Tarde, immo iam sero intellexi: The Real as of the Myth of the Sun’s Eye (P.Lond.Lit. 192).” a Puzzle in Petronius’ Satyrica.” Whitmarsh, T., “The romance between Greece and the East.” Petronian Sociey Newsletter 42, October 2014 3 Wiesehöfer, J., “Ctesias, the Achaemenid court, and the Nicolini, L., “Uno sguardo ecfrastico sulla realtà: modi history of the Greek novel.” dell’influenza ovidiana in Apuleio.” Schmeling, G., “Size Matters: It is the little things that count in the Satyrica of Petronius.” Greek Novels Setaioli, S., “El uso de la cita poética en Petronio y en los demás novelistas antiguos.” Hindermann, J., “Eros und Wissensvermittlung im Garten,” Slater, N. W., “The Master and Margarita: Figuring Au- Gymnasium 120.4 (2013) 343–360. thority in Petronius’s Satyrica.” Vannini, G., “La Matrona di Efeso di Petronio e le altre Papadimitropoulos, L., “Love and the Reinstatement of the Self version antiche dell’aneddoto.” in Heliodorus’ Aethiopica,” G&R 60.1 (2013) 10–113. Chacham-Herson, R., and K. Ḳadmon, Amor U-Psikheh (Tel Papadimitripolus, L., “Suspense and Surprise in Achilles Ta- Aviv: ʻAm ʻoved, 2013) 79 pp. tius’ Leucippe and Clitophon,” Classica et Mediaevalia 62 (2012) 161–187. Chen, C., Ai Qing Shen Hua = Satyricon (Taibei Shi zi wen hua shi ye, 2013) 236 pp. Pizzone, A., “When Calasiris Got Pregnant: Shifting Perspec- tives on Story-Telling in Heliodorus’ Aethiopica,” in The Pur- Dickison, S. K., “A Note on Fame and the ‘Widow of Ephe- pose of Rhetoric in Late Antiquity: From Performance to Exe- sus’,” in Roman Literature, Gender And Reception: Domina gesis, ed. P. A. J. Quiroga (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2013, xi Illustris. Essays in Honor of Judith Peller Hallett, eds. D. + 265 pp.) 139–160. Lateiner, B. K. Gold, and J. Perkins (New York and London: Routledge, 2013, viii + 337 pp.) 85–91. Stoneman, R., and T. Gargiulo, Il Romanzo di Alessandro, Vo- lume II. Scrittori greci e latini (Roma and Milano: Fondazione Egelhaaf-Gaiser, U., “‘Ich war ihr steter Diener’: Kultalltag im Lorenzo Valla; Arnoldo Mondadori editore, 2012) lxviii + 451 Isis-Buch des Apuleius,” in Imperium der Götter: Isis, Mithras, pp. Christus: Kulte und Religionen im Römischen Reich, ed. C. Hattler (Karlsruhe: Badisches Landesmuseum, 2013, 480 pp.) 150–155. Latin Novels Farmer, M. C., “Rivers and Rivalry in Petronius, Horace, Cal- Carmignani, M., “Poeta vesanus, recitator acerbus. Die auf limachus, and Aristophanes,” AJPh 134.3 (2013) 481–506. Horaz basierende Karikierung des Eumolpus in Petronius, Sat. 118,” RhM 156.1 (2013) 27–46. Felton, D., “Apuleius’ Cupid Considered as a Lamia (Meta- morphoses 5.17–18),” ICS 38 (2013) 229–244. Carmignani, M., L. Graverini, and B. T. Lee, Collected Studies on the Roman Novel = Ensayos Sobre La Novela Romana Gianotti, G. F., La cena di Trimalchione: dal Satyricon di Pe- (Cordoba: Editorial Brujas, 2013) 312 pp. The following es- tronio (Acireale: Bonanno editore, 2013) 478 pp. says are included in the collection: Carmignani, M., “La apropiación de una leyenda: Sat.
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    800.995.2300 312.944.1448 fax LN/LT/CL 300 LATIN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE IES Abroad Rome - Language & Area Studies DESCRIPTION: This course will provide students intermediate instruction of Latin grammar and a more detailed knowledge about Latin literature. It will examine the several phases, genres, and styles of Latin literature in chronological order and in a diachronic perspective, with constant reference to historical and political contexts. It also will present a selection of some of the most important Latin authors by introducing their main themes and key topics. Visits to archaeological sites in Rome will connect the authors’ works to the context of their everyday life. The study of Latin literature will start with the most ancient author we know, Livius Andronicus (III century B.C.) and it will develop in chronological order, from the Republican to the middle Imperial period. The chronological limit of the course is the II century A.D. CREDITS: 3 CONTACT HOURS: 45 LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION: English PREREQUISITES: Three college semesters of Latin grammar and language are required ADDITIONAL COST: None METHOD OF PRESENTATION: Course-related excursions to archaeological sites, monuments and museums; lectures; comment, analysis and translation of Latin texts; PowerPoint presentations. REQUIRED WORK AND FORM OF ASSESSMENT: • Class participation - 10% • Research paper and presentation - 25% • Written journal – 15% • Midterm exam - 25% • Final exam- 25% Research Paper and Presentation Paper of 2500-3000 words on one of the authors analyzed in class. Part of the paper will be a translation. A good paper will include information on the author’s historical and cultural context, literary production, and influence on literature in general.
  • Review of Gian Biagio Conte, Glenn W. Most, and Charles Segal

    Review of Gian Biagio Conte, Glenn W. Most, and Charles Segal

    University of Pennsylvania ScholarlyCommons Departmental Papers (Classical Studies) Classical Studies at Penn 1994 Review of Gian Biagio Conte, Glenn W. Most, and Charles Segal, Genres and Readers: Lucretius, Love Elegy, Pliny's Encyclopedia Joseph Farrell University of Pennsylvania, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: http://repository.upenn.edu/classics_papers Part of the Classics Commons Recommended Citation Farrell, J. (1994). Review of Gian Biagio Conte, Glenn W. Most, and Charles Segal, Genres and Readers: Lucretius, Love Elegy, Pliny's Encyclopedia. Vergilius, 40 117-125. Retrieved from http://repository.upenn.edu/classics_papers/106 This paper is posted at ScholarlyCommons. http://repository.upenn.edu/classics_papers/106 For more information, please contact [email protected]. Review of Gian Biagio Conte, Glenn W. Most, and Charles Segal, Genres and Readers: Lucretius, Love Elegy, Pliny's Encyclopedia Disciplines Arts and Humanities | Classics This review is available at ScholarlyCommons: http://repository.upenn.edu/classics_papers/106 REVIEWS Gian Biagio Conte. Genres and Readers: Lucretius, Love Elegy, Pliny's Encyclopedia. Tr. Glenn W. Most. Foreword by Charles Segal. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. Pp. xxiii + 185. ISBN 0- 8018-4679-X. $32.50. In 1986, the work of Gian Biagio Conte was little known in this country. Indeed, the avowed purpose of The Rhetoric ofImitation, published in that year, was, as Charles Segal stated in his foreword to the volume, to "bring [ . ] before an English-speaking public a book that consolidates new approaches to literary study with erudition, originality, and penetrating insight. "1 In some ways, the volume succeeded brilliantly, introducing Conte to a wide American readership and making him an active force in Latin studies on these shores.