Reading Heliodorus' Aethiopica / edited by Ian Repath and Tim Whitmarsh.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Repath, Ian, editor.

Whitmarsh, Tim, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greek literature--History and criticism.

Greek literature.

Heliodorus, of Emesa. Aethiopica.

Heliodorus.

Heliodorus, of Emesa.

Aethiopica (Heliodorus, of Emesa).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (312 pages)

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, [2022]

Summary:

Focusing on the latest, longest, and greatest of the ancient Greek romances, this volume exploring Heliodorus' Aethiopica brings together fifteen established experts, each exploring a passage or section of the text in depth.

Contents:

Cover

Reading Heliodorus' Aethiopica

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

List of Contributors

1: Introduction: Reading Heliodorus

2: Odyssean and Herodotean Threads in the Tainia of Heliodorus' Opening Chapters (1.1-5)

3: Visualizing Assemblages: Demaenete, Thisbe's Bed-Trick,and the Creation of Charicleia (1.15-17)

3.1 Demaenete's Incestuous Desire

3.2. The Bed-Trick

3.3. Visualizing Charicleia

4: Thisbe's Intrigue: A Plot between Deception and Illusion (1.15-17)

5: Theagenes' Second Lament (2.4)

5.1. Theagenes' Lament and the Reception of Heliodorus

5.2. Theagenes' Second Lament in Context

6: Cnemon Meets Calasiris (2.21-2)

6.1. The Literary References

6.2. Narratological Paradoxes

6.3. Suspense

7: Allegory, Recognition, and Identity: The Egyptian Homer in Context (3.11.5-15.1)

7.1. Appearance and Reality in Calasiris' Vision (3.11.5-12.1)

7.2. Recognizing the Gods and Reading Homer

7.3. Neoplatonism, Calasiris, and Allegorical Logic

7.4. Homer's Biography

7.5. Reading the Figure of Homer

8: The Mustering of the Delphians (4.19-21)

8.1. Beginning Again

8.2. How Do Wars Start?

8.3. Questions of Consent

8.4. Conclusion

9: Calasiris on Zacynthus and His Dream of Odysseus (5.17-22)

9.1. The Voyage to Zacynthus: Navigation, Realism, and Intertextual Opportunity

9.2. The Heliodoran Odysseus

10: Life, the Cosmos, and Everything (5.26-34)

10.1. Context

10.2. The Pirate's Interpretation of the Good

10.3. The Expert's Interpretation of the Storm

10.4. The Interpretation of the Arrival and of the Celebrations

10.5. Misplaced and Incongruous Visions and Priorities

10.6. Epic (and Other) Associations

10.7. Refocusing

10.8. Closure and Remembering the daimonion

10.9. Statue, Conceptions of Divinity, Resignation.

10.10. Appendix on 'Butness'

11: On the Road Again (6.1-4)

11.1. Keep Going!

11.2. Cnemon on Stage

11.3. Narrative Withheld

11.4. Connecting Narratives

11.5. Stupefied Silences

11.6. Conclusions

12: Charicleia's Dark Night of the Soul (6.8-11)

13: Epic into Drama (7.6-8)*

14: Enter Arsace and Her Entourage!: Lust, Gender, Ethnicity, and Class at the Persian Court (Books 7 and 8)

14.1. Preliminaries

14.2. The Multidimensional Court of Arsace

14.3. Portrait of Arsace

14.4. Cultural Hybridity

14.5. Gender and Ethnicity

14.6. Social Status and Class Resentment: Achaemenes

15: Sending the Reader Round the Bend (8.14-17)

15.1. Content and Context

15.2. The Characters' Perspectives and Reader's Expectations

15.3. The Setting in the Bend

15.4. The Bend in the Nile

15.5. Ambush, Colour, Siege, and Sacrifice

15.6. Conclusion

16: The Siege of Syene: Ekphrasis and Imagination (9.3)

16.1. The Passage and Its Context

16.2. Ways and Means

16.3. A Portrait of the King as a Military Leader

16.4. Figures in the Earth

16.5. Hydaspes' Works as a Metaliterary Artefact

16.6. Hydaspes as Author and Creator

16.7. Conclusion

17: Sphragis 1: To Infinity and Beyond (10.41.4)

18: Sphragis 2: The Limits of Reality and the End of the Novel (10.41.3-4)

18.1. Historiographical Posing(?)

18.2. The End of the Novel(?)

References

Index Locorum

General Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [271]-288) and indexes.

Other Format:

Print version: Repath, Ian Reading Heliodorus' Aethiopica

ISBN:

0-19-183454-8

0-19-251112-2

0-19-251113-0