Philosophy and the ancient novel / edited by Marília P. Futre Pinheiro and Silvia Montiglio.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Futre Pinheiro, M. (Marília), editor.

Montiglio, Silvia, 1960- editor.

Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, host institution.

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Conference Name:

International Conference on the Ancient Novel (4th : 2008 : Lisbon, Portugal), creator.

Series:

Ancient narrative. Supplementum ; 20.

Ancient Narrative. Supplementum ; 20

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature, Ancient.

Philosophy, Ancient, in literature.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xiii, 179 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Eelde, The Netherlands : Barkhuis Publishing ; Groningen : Groningen University Library, 2015.

Summary:

The papers assembled in this volume explore a relatively new area in scholarship on the ancient novel: the relationship between an ostensibly non-philosophical genre and philosophy. This approach opens up several original themes for further research and debate. Platonising fiction was popular in the Second Sophistic and it took a variety of forms, ranging from the intertextual to the allegorical, and discussions of the origins of the novel-genre in antiquity have centred on the role of Socratic dialogue in general and Plato's dialogues in particular as important precursors. The papers in this collection cover a variety of genres, ranging from the Greek and Roman novels to utopian narratives and fictional biographies, and seek by diverse methods to detect philosophical resonances in these texts.

Contents:

Growing Backwards: The Cena Trimalchionis and Plato's Aesthetics of Mimesis / Ourania Molyviati Molyviati, Ourania 1

Stoics in the ocean: lambulus' novel as philosophical fiction / Peter Von Möllendorff Möllendorff, Peter Von 19

The Caring Gods: Daphnis and Chloe as Pronoia Literature / Ursula Bittrich Bittrich, Ursula 35

Tales of Utopia: Alexander, Cynics and Christian Ascetics / Richard Stoneman Stoneman, Richard 51

Targeting the 'intellectuals': Dio of Prusa and the Vita Aesopi / Stefano Jedrkiewicz Jedrkiewicz, Stefano 65

Only Halfway to Happiness: A Platonic Reading of Apulehis' Golden Ass / Walter Englert Englert, Walter 81

Ex alienis uocibus: Platonic Demonology and Socratic Superstition in Apuleius' Metamorphoses / Richard Fletcher Fletcher, Richard 93

The Platonic Eros of Art in the Ancient Greek Novel / Vernon Provencal Provencal, Vernon 109

Platonic Perversions: Horror and the Irrational in the Greek Novel / Steven D. Smith Smith, Steven D. 125

Apollonios of Tyana and the Gymnoi of Ethiopia / Gary Reger Reger, Gary 141.

Notes:

Papers originally presented at the Fourth International Conference on the Ancient Novel (ICAN IV), held in Lisbon at the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian in July 2008.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9491431897

9789491431890

OCLC:

922680705

Publisher Number:

99966338591