Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-07933-5 - Reading Fiction with Lucian: Fakes, Freaks and Hyperreality Karen Ní Mheallaigh Index More information General index 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, 29 299 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-07933-5 - Reading Fiction with Lucian: Fakes, Freaks and Hyperreality Karen Ní Mheallaigh Index More information 300 General index 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 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-07933-5 - Reading Fiction with Lucian: Fakes, Freaks and Hyperreality Karen Ní Mheallaigh Index More information General index 301 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 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-07933-5 - Reading Fiction with Lucian: Fakes, Freaks and Hyperreality Karen Ní Mheallaigh Index More information 302 General index 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 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-07933-5 - Reading Fiction with Lucian: Fakes, Freaks and Hyperreality Karen Ní Mheallaigh Index More information 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.