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Readers and Writers in the Ancient Novel Indices Index locorum* Achilles Tatius 9.1.1-2, 178 5.1, 70 9.13.4, 169 5.1.2-3, 45 9.39, 185 5.1.4-5, 46 10.29, 180 5.1.5, 44 11.17, 186 5.1.6, 45 11.30.3-4, 199 5.3.4-7, 88 Soc. 11.145, 191 5.27.4, 61 15.150, 192 Alexander Romance Augustinus 1.32, 70 Conf . 1.20, 260 1.34, 72 2.6, 257 2.41, 72 3.7, 263 Antonius Diogenes 5.15, 256 109a8-10 Photius, 139 8.14, 264 109b3 Photius, 129 Chariton 110a14-16 Photius, 121 4.4, 79 110a16-17 Photius, 119 4.5.8-9, 80 110b16-19 Photius, 129 5.1.1-2, 40 111a20-23 Photius, 132 5.1.3, 42 111a30-40 Photius, 135 8.1, 47 111a32-40 Photius, 128 8.1.4, 58, 116 111a36-7 Photius, 117 Cicero 111a41-b30 Photius, 128 Ad fam. 5.12, 59 111b20-24 Photius, 134 Gellius P.Oxy 4761, 121 7.13.7-10, 13 Apuleius Heliodorus Met. 1.1.5, 205 1.14-17, 83 1.7.5-1.8.2, 227 1.28-29, 122 1.13.4, 177 2.11.1, 87 3.19.5-6, 227 4.8, 73 4.32, 185 Hist. Aug. 6.6.1-4, 170 Clod. Alb. 12.12, 200, 214 6.7-8, 173 Historia Apollonii regis Tyri 6.24, 174 2, 11 6.32.1, 177 6, 12 ————— * This index offers only a selection of the passages discussed. INDICES 281 Historia Apollonii regis Tyri (cont.) Philostratus VA (cont.) 2, 11 3.45, 246 6, 12 3.53, 243 10, 74 4.1, 245 32, 75 5.1.1, 43 47, 76 6.12.2, 248 Homerus Photius Il. 14.347-351, 61 Bibl. Cod. 166, 26, 165 Iamblichus Plato Babylonian Story 3, 71 Tht. 146A, 201 Longus Plinius 1.8.1, 123 Ep. 6.17, 4 1.28.1, 125 Plutarchus 1.30.6, 124 Alex. 1, 144 2.1.4, 124 de aud. poet. Mor. 14D-15F, 8 Lucianus 21A ff., 2 Hist. conscr. 6.10, 248 517E-F, 57 VH 1.2, 23 518A, 58 1.4, 21 520B, 59 1.17, 31 Seneca 1.40, 29 Apoc. 5.4.5-6, 111 2.24, 29 5-6, 102 2.40, 30 7.4.4-5.4, 106 Petronius Con. 1.2, 11 30.2-3, 66 Sidonius 36.7-8, 54 Ep. 9.13.3, 13 41.3-5, 54 Synesius 49.3-5, 55 Dio 18.1-5, 5 71.12, 64 Vita Aesopi 85-86, 93 55-56, 52 116-125, 112 56, 58 118.6, 109 62, 55 127.7, 61 Xenophon ‘Philip the Philosopher’ Ephes. 1.12, 67 p. 368.64-7 Colonna, 59 2.3.8, 133 Philostratus 3.2, 69 VA 1.1-3, 243 5.10.6, 68 1.17, 12, 245 5.11.6, 74 2.2.2, 43 General Index Acocella, A., 230, 235 Agatharchides Adamietz, J., 105 On the Red Sea, 14 Adrados, F.R., 145 Alexander Romance, 156 Aeschrion of Samos, 148 philosophical ideas in -, 146 Aesopic fable, 203 282 INDICES allegorical interpretation bilingualism of Apuleius’ Met., 218 and translation, 185 of Heliodorus, 7, 9 Billault, A., 243, 246, 248 of Homer, 8, 227 Bing, P., 67 allegorizing Birmelin, E., 249 astrological method, 8 Blair, A., 13 etymological method, 9 Blänsdorf, J., 200 allegory, 45, 98, 222, 225 Boccaccio, 219 as a function of reading, 226 Bodel, J., 106 Alpers, K., 227 Boiardo Amat, J., 108 Apulegio, 230 ἀναγράφω, 133 Bouquiaux-Simon, O., 29 ancient novels Bowersock, G.W., 125 book-divisions, 37, 176 Bowie, E.L., 123, 125, 165, 241, 242 ‘encyclopaedic’ genre, 149 Bradley, K., 205 historical characters in -, 143 Branham, R.B., 104 texts within -, 36, 64, 79 Braun, M., 145 textuality, 37, 115 Brill New Jacoby, 155 ancient philosophers Brooks, P., 41 on fear of death, 146 Burton, R., 146 Anderson, G., 53, 241, 246 Cairns, F., 11 Antiphanes of Berge, 137 Callisthenes, 150 Antonius Diogenes, 26, 166 Cameron, A., 158 Apocryphal Acts, 149 carnivalesque literature, 20 Apuleius, 151 Cavalca, M.G., 107 address to reader, 204 Cavallo, G., 1, 6 as translator, 186 Cavarzere, A., 200, 203 De deo Socratis, 187, 191 Chariton, 6 prologue of the Met., 198 book division and geography, 42 self-representation, 200 quotation from Homer, 81 Athanasius of Alexandria Chatzis, A., 160 Vita Antonii, 264 choliambic passages author in Alexander Romance, 147 in the text, 19 Cizek, A., 143 Bakhtin, M., 18, 20, 79, 89, 104 Clarke, K., 185 Bannet, E.T., 188 Clitophon Barchiesi, A., 206 auctor and actor, 47 Barns, J.W.B., 149 Cohoon, J.W., 161 Barthes, R., 14 Coleman, K., 178 Bartsch, S., 93, 97 Collignon, A., 105 Beard, M., 66 Connors, C., 93, 96, 111, 204 Beaujeu, J., 229 Conte, G.B., 105, 110 Beck, R., 111 Coulter, J.A., 223 Benjamin, W., 188 Courtney, E., 104 Bernardi Perini, G., 200 Cox, P., 241 Bernsdorff, H., 121 Cribiore, R., 3 Beroaldo, 219 Cristesen, P., 105 INDICES 283 Currie, H.M., 105, 198 fiction (cont.) Cynic elements ‘historical novel’, 143 in Alexander Romance, 146 ‘truthful -’, 242 de Man, P., 188 utopian -, 149 declamations, 4 Finkelpearl, E., 185, 224 Dehon, P.-J., 110 Firenzuola Derrida, J., 87, 189 Asino d’oro, 230 Diktys Fletcher, R., 188 and Antonius Diogenes, 165 Flinterman, J.-J., 241, 245, 248 dating, 157 Focardi, G., 105 mythographic context, 158 Forster, E.M., 144 Dionysius of Halicarnassus, 1 Foucault, M., 19 Dionysius Thrax, 1 Fowler, D.P., 38 discourse Francis, J.A., 241 ‘authoritative’ vs. ‘internally Frangoulidis, S.A., 169 persuasive’ -, 20 Fronto, 205 ‘free indirect’ -, 86 Fulgentius, 219 philosophical -, 190 Fusillo, M., 25, 149 Donahue, J.F., 65 Gaisser, J.H., 218, 229 Döpp, S., 106 Garcia Gual, C., 145 Dostalova, R., 143 Gavrilov, A., 1 Dowden, K., 70, 156, 228 Gellius, 205 Dream of Nectanebo, 150 Genette, G., 37 Dzielska, M., 241 Graverini, L., 197, 201 Eco, U., 241 Greek novels Foucault’s Pendulum, 229 dating, 125 ecphrasis, 87, 93, 98, 180 Griffin, N., 156 Eden, P.T., 102 Griffiths, J.G., 194 Egelhaaf-Gaiser, U., 225 Grosso, F., 241 Egger, B., 242 Gruen, E., 143 Egyptian elements Hagendahl, H., 259 in Alexander Romance, 149 Hägg, T., 37, 44, 144, 156, 164, 244 Elsner, J., 112, 241, 248 Harrison, S.J., 170, 174, 178, 187, 191, enargeia, 250 224, 226 Encolpius Havelock, E., 2 and Claudius, 105 Heffernan, J., 87 curiosity of -, 54 Heldmann, K., 112 epic Heliodorus and ancient novel, 169, 177 Knemon’s tale, 83 historical -, 110 Heller, S., 229 oral performances, 4 Helm, R., 225 Eumolpus Henderson, J., 184 and Homeric bards, 91 Heraclitus Feeney, D.C., 242 Homeric Problems, 9 fiction, 23, 136 Hercher, R., 159 ancient readers of -, 136, 138, 197 Hermogenes, 140 and history, 110, 143 Herrmann, K., 200 as history, 163 Herzog, R., 106 284 INDICES Hijmans, B.L., 179, 185, 187, 191 Malalas, 163 Historia Apollonii regis Tyri, 11, 73, 38, Mann, W.E., 254 75 Martindale, C., 218 history May, R., 187 and legend, 143 Menippean satire, 104 Holzberg, N., 12, 164, 255, 257 Merkelbach, R., 156, 223 Homeric scholia Merkle, S., 53, 156, 160, 164 on reader’s role, 60 Meyer, E., 241 Hunink, V., 255 mime, 100 Hunter, R., 7, 11 Mittelstadt, M.C., 122 Huzar, H., 107 Moatti, C., 185 Iambulus, 27 Mommsen, T., 65 intertextuality, 21, 25, 104, 106, 182, 256 Montiglio, S., 227 irony Morales, H., 47, 87, 242 Socratic -, 214 Morelli, C., 223 Jacob, C., 3 Morgan, J.R., 83, 128, 136, 184, 242 James, P., 185 Mortley, R., 144 Jensson, G., 96 Müller, C., 193 Johnson, W, 2 μῦθος, 123, 131 Jouanno, C., 53, 148 narrative judicial language authentication, 161, 166 in Apocolocyntosis, 111 closure, 176 used by Eumolpus, 111 embedded -, 129, 131, 176 Kaster, R., 208 recapitulation, 41 Kedrenos, 164 narrator Kenney, E.J., 170, 228 homodiegetic, 24 Kerényi, K., 143 Nero, 97 Keulen, W.H., 60, 177, 204 ‘New Mythography’, 155 Kindstrand, J.F., 169 Nieddu, G.F., 2 Kirichenko, A., 224 Nimis, S., 41, 44, 47, 87 Konstan, D., 13 Nünlist, R., 3 Kortekaas, G.A.A., 74 Nussbaum, M., 147 Krautter, K., 219, 223 O’Donnell, J.J., 254 Labate, M., 110 O’Gorman, E., 103 Laird, A., 12 Oberg, E., 198 Lamberti, G., 200 orality and textuality Leach, E.W., 103 Antonius Diogenes, 117, 130 ‘letteratura di consumo’, 6 Chariton, 116 Life of Aesop, 52, 146, 149, 151 Longus, 122 Lollianus, 6 Panayotakis, S., 76 Lucian Papadoyannakis, Y., 3 and Thucydides, 30 paratextuality, 37 Lucian’s VH parody, 20, 100, 112, 124, 177 and Iambulus, 27 and pastiche, 25 and The Wonders Beyond Thule, 26, Parsons, P., 120 137 Paschalis, M., 104 Lukacs, G., 144 Penwill, J.L., 224 Lund, A.A., 102 peritextuality, 37, 47 INDICES 285 Perry, B.E., 59, 142, 225 readers Perutelli, A., 105 in the text, 242 Pervo, R., 149 reading Petronius Ambrose, 264 Bellum Civile, 111 pleasure of -, 59 cena Trimalchionis, 53 silent - Satyrica and Odyssey, 101 silent - in antiquity, 1 Phaedrus ‘reality effects’, 64 address to reader, 200 Reitzenstein, R., 248 fables, 198 Relihan, J.C., 104 ‘Philip the Philosopher’, 7, 9 Reynolds, D., 4 Philippides, M., 122 riddles, 12, 71 Philostratus Riikonen, H.K., 104 book division in VA, 43 Rimell, V., 93, 104 Photius, 127 ring composition, 71 reader of Ant. Diogenes, 138 Rives, J.B., 206 Plaza, M., 201 Robiano, P., 244, 248 Plutarch Rode, A., 221 definition of bios, 144 Roman satire, 201 How a Youth should Listen to Poems, 2 Romm, J.S., 137, 247 περὶ πολυπραγμοσύνης, 52, 54 Roncali, R., 102 Popescu, V., 25, 27 Rosenmeyer, P., 73, 79, 84 Porphyry Rousseau, P., 244 reader of Ant.
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