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Job vacancies: two fully-funded ERC PhD studentships (4 years each) at Ghent University (Belgium)

2019-06-28

The Department of Literary Studies at Ghent University (Belgium) is seeking well-qualified applicants for two fully-funded and full-time doctoral research fellowships attached to the European Research Council Consolidator Grant project Novel Echoes. Ancient novelistic receptions and concepts of fiction in late antique and medieval secular narrative from East to West (for an abstract, see www.novelsaints.ugent.be/projects). Its Principal Investigator is Prof Dr Koen De Temmerman, who specializes in ancient fiction and its persistence in later periods. Read more on the website of Ghent University...
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Conference Announcement RICAN 9

2019-05-29

Conference Announcement RICAN 9, ‘Body and Text in the Ancient Novel’, on 10-11 October 2019.
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Just published: Animo Decipiendi?

2019-03-04

Barkhuis Publishing has just published a new book, which is not in the Ancient Narrative Supplements series, but might be of interest to you:
Animo Decipiendi?
Rethinking fakes and authorship in Classical, Late Antique, & Early Christian Works
Antonio Guzmán and Javier Martínez
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Conference Announcement: Writing The Embodied Experience in Imperial Ecphrasis

2019-02-12

WRITING THE EMBODIED EXPERIENCE IN IMPERIAL ECPHRASIS
Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge, 4th–5th September 2019
https://embodiedecphrasis.weebly.com/
Twitter: @EmbodEcphrasis
How did the Greeks and Romans experience and describe their spectacles and material artefacts in the Imperial period? Were they concerned only with ‘de-coding’ these artefacts and performances to show off their cultural intellect or did they frame a more sensuous, embodied encounter with them? Were they as interested in form as in content, in the body as in the brain?
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Just published: Re-Wiring The Ancient Novel, Vols 1 and 2

2018-11-26

We have just published the 24th volume in the Ancient Narrative Supplements series:
Re-Wiring the Ancient Novel
Volume 1: Greek Novels
Volume 2: Roman Novels and Other Important Texts
Ancient Narrative Supplements 24.1 and 24.2
Edmund Cueva et al. (eds.)
ISBN 9789492444561
See the Archives for more information and free parts of the book. The new supplement can be ordered directly from the publisher, Barkhuis, www.barkhuis.nl, info@barkhuis.nl, or from your bookseller. The two volumes are one set, and can only be purchased together, not separately.
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Just published: The Alexander Romance: History and Literature

2018-10-10

We have just published the 25th volume in the Ancient Narrative Supplements series:
The Alexander Romance: History and Literature
Ancient Narrative Supplement 25
Richard Stoneman, Krzysztof Nawotka & Agnieszka Wojciechowska (eds.)
ISBN-13: 9789492444714
See the Archives for more information and free parts of the book. The new supplement can be ordered directly from the publisher, Barkhuis, www.barkhuis.nl, info@barkhuis.nl, or from your bookseller.
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Petronian Society Newsletter Volume 44 has appeared

2018-10-08

Petronian Society Newsletter Volume 44 has appeared, see the Archives.
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Update Conference Announcement: Heliodorus in New Contexts

2018-05-07

Conference Announcement
Heliodorus in New Contexts, St John’s College and Faculty of Classics, Cambridge, 12–13 December 2018
Registration is still open for the conference Heliodorus in New Contexts, to be held at St John’s College and the Faculty of Classics, Cambridge, 12th–13th December 2018:
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Novel Saints Conference in Ghent, 22-24 November 2018: Call for papers

2018-01-26

Call for Papers
Novel Saints. Novel, Hagiography and Romance from the 4th to the 12th Century
International Conference organized at Ghent University by Flavia Ruani and Koen De Temmerman
Het Pand, Thursday 22nd - Saturday 24th November 2018
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Just appeared: Xenophon’s Ephesiaca

2017-09-25

We have just published the 22st volume in the Ancient Narrative Supplements series:
Xenophon’s Ephesiaca
A Paraliterary Love-Story from the Ancient World
Ancient Narrative Supplements 22
Aldo Tagliabue
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Barefaced Greek

2017-06-30

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We're a UK-based production company and we make smart, sexy short films using excerpts from Greek tragedy in the original language. (We then add subtitles, so that as many people can enjoy them as possible!).
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Richard I. Pervo dies at the age of 75

2017-05-29

Richard I. Pervo, well-known for his work on the ancient novel and early Christian literature, dies at the age of 75 on May 19, 2017 in St Paul, Minnesota. http://crescenttide.com/obituaries.html?links=false Read more about Richard I. Pervo dies at the age of 75
Just appeared: From Bedroom to Courtroom

2017-01-27

We have just published the 21st volume in the Ancient Narrative Supplements series:
From Bedroom to Courtroom
Law and Justice in the Greek Novel
Ancient Narrative Supplements 21
Saundra Schwartz
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Petronian Society Newsletter Volume 43 Published

2017-01-18

Petronian Society Newsletter Volume 43 has appeared, see the Archives.
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