A new AN Supplement: Materiality and Ancient Narrative
2026-01-06
We have just published a new supplement:
Materiality and Ancient Narrative
Edited by Evelyn Adkins and Edmund P. Cueva
Ancient Narrative Supplements 31
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We have just published Petronian Society Newsletter 49 (2024)
2025-11-19Dear readers of AN Alert,
We have just published Petronian Society Newsletter 49 (2024) on the PSN website at https://ugp.rug.nl/psn/index.
The Petronian Society Newsletter or PSN began in 1970 and has been published every year since then. In the first issues the newsletter was concerned with just things Petronian, but it now covers the bibliography of all the Greek and Roman novels and fragments, and early Christian and Jewish novel-like narratives. The newsletter also publishes general, short notes on the ancient novels. PSN appears only on-line and can be downloaded by any interested persons. The first Petronian Society Newsletter was published in 1970 by Gareth Schmeling.
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Ancient Narrative has just published a new article
2025-10-02Dear Readers,
Our journal Ancient Narrative has just published a new article:
La caverne dans l’île : un parcours dans les profondeurs des Éthiopiques d’Héliodore (1, 28, 2-2,18 ; 5, 4-6)
by KPatrick RobianoTo read the article, please visit our website at https://ancientnarrative.com, and scroll down to Volume 20, preliminary version.
Roelf Barkhuis
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Ancient Narrative has just published a new article
2025-06-19Dear Readers,
Our journal Ancient Narrative has just published a new article:
Yourcenar’s Hadrian: A Pendant
by Keith BradleyTo read the article, please visit our website at https://ancientnarrative.com, and scroll down to Volume 20, preliminary version.
Roelf Barkhuis
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Ancient Narrative: Obituary of Alain Billault
2025-06-11Dear Readers,
We have sad news to share with you: Alain Billault passed away on May 9 2025.
Romain Brethes wrote the obituary below.
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Ancient Narrative: Sad news to share
2025-02-24Dear Readers,
Unfortunately, some sad news to share: Dr. Jean Alvares has passed away.
Edmund Cueva wrote the obituary below:
Jean Alvares (1954 – 2024)
Jean Alvares, a beloved scholar, educator, gardener, and devoted husband, passed away at home in Bloomfield, NJ, on January 16, 2024, after a long illness. He was 69 years old.
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Ancient Narrative has just published a new review
2024-12-20Dear Readers,
Our journal Ancient Narrative has just published a new review:
Cameron Cross, Love at a Crux: The New Persian Romance in a Global Middle Ages
Reviewed by Ghazzal DabiriTo read the review, please visit our website at https://ancientnarrative.com, and scroll down to Volume 20, preliminary version.
Best regards,
Roelf Barkhuis
Publisher of Ancient Narrative
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SCS Roundtable: Organizing an Ancient Narrative Affiliated Group
2024-12-18Dear Colleagues,
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Symposium on Ancient Narrative and its Reception: a Tribute to Prof. Saiichiro Nakatani (1972-2023)
2024-09-24Evelien Bracke and Koen De Temmerman warmly invite you to a symposium on ancient narrative and its reception, organized in tribute to the late Prof. Saiichiro Nakatani (1972-2023).
Speakers have been invited to present a scholarly paper on a topic related to Prof. Nakatani’s work on ancient fiction, its reception, or the reception of Classics in Japan more broadly. This symposium aims to commemorate Prof. Nakatani and celebrate his work and contributions to these fields of study.
The symposium will take place on 14th March 2025, from 10am to 4pm CET. The event will take place live at Ghent University, but online attendees are also welcome.
To attend the symposium, please register by Friday 14th February 2025 by emailing evelien.bracke@ugent.be. Please mention whether you would like to attend in person or online.
Website with programme and more: https://www.novelsaints.ugent.be/event/tribute-to-saiichiro-nakatani/
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Ancient Narrative has just published a new article
2024-03-12Dear Readers,
Our journal Ancient Narrative has just published a new article:
Borges, Petronio y la curiosa felicitas
by Marco CarmignaniTo read the article, please visit our website at https://ancientnarrative.com, and scroll down to Volume 20, preliminary version.
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Roelf Barkhuis
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Please ignore the notification about the Novel Echoes ERC-project at Ghent University
2023-12-21Dear readers of AN-Alert,
Please ignore the notification about a new online workshop by the Novel Echoes ERC-project at Ghent University, which was sent earlier today. This notification is a copy of a notification from 2022, and I have no idea at all why it was sent again today.
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We have just published Petronian Society Newsletter 48
2023-12-21Dear readers of AN Alert,
We have just published Petronian Society Newsletter 48 on the PSN website at https://ugp.rug.nl/psn/index.
This is the direct link to PSN 48: https://doi.org/10.21827/psn.48
The Petronian Society Newsletter or PSN began in 1970 and has been published every year since then. In the first issues the newsletter was concerned with just things Petronian, but it now covers the bibliography of all the Greek and Roman novels and fragments, and early Christian and Jewish novel-like narratives. The newsletter also publishes general, short notes on the ancient novels. PSN appears only on-line and can be downloaded by any interested persons. The first Petronian Society Newsletter was published in 1970 by Gareth Schmeling.
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The editorial board of Ancient Narrative has published new author guidelines
2023-11-16Dear readers, The editorial board of Ancient Narrative has published new author guidelines for submissions to Ancient Narrative, with specific author guidelines applying to articles, chapters in special issues, books in the Ancient Narrative Supplements series, and book reviews. Read more... Read more about The editorial board of Ancient Narrative has published new author guidelines -
From now on all volumes in the Ancient Narrative Supplements series are also available as pdf ebooks
2023-11-15Dear readers,
I am pleased to announce that we have a new website, and that from now on all volumes in the Ancient Narrative Supplements series are also available as pdf ebooks. Read more...
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Ancient Narrative: New Editorial and Advisory Board
2023-07-07Dear Readers, On behalf of Ancient Narrative, I would like to extend a warm welcome to our new editorial team and board members. Read more about Ancient Narrative: New Editorial and Advisory Board -
We have just published a new supplement: Modern Literary Theory and the Ancient Novel
2023-05-17We have just published a new supplement:
Modern Literary Theory and the Ancient Novel: Poetics and Rhetoric
Marília Futre Pinheiro, Massimo Fusillo & Stephen A. Nimis (eds.)
Ancient Narrative Supplement 30
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Ancient Narrative: AN19 has been published online
2023-04-21Dear Readers,
The final edition of Ancient Narrative Volume 19 has been published online.
The print edition will appear in May.
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Ancient Narrative: Sad news
2023-04-20Dear readers,
I have some sad news to share: Hugh Mason and Saiichiro Nakatani, authors of Ancient Narrative, have passed away.
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Ancient Narrative: New review published
2023-03-03We have just published a new review:
W.M. Owens, The Representation of Slavery in the Greek Novel. Resistance and Appropriation
By Laura DonatiTo read the review, please go to https://ancientnarrative.com/index, and scroll down to the Review section of the current issue.
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Ancient Narrative: New review published
2023-02-16We have just published a new review:
E. Adkins, Discourse, Knowledge, and Power in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses
By Leonardo CostantiniTo read the review, please go to https://ancientnarrative.com/index, and scroll down to the Review section of the current issue.
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Ancient Narrative has just published a new article
2022-09-19Dear readers,
Ancient Narrative has just published a new article: On Psyche and Psychology: A Reflection, by K.R. Bradley. To read the article, please visit our website and scroll down to the preliminary version of Volume 19.
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Ancient Narrative has just published a new article
2022-08-18Dear readers, Ancient Narrative has just published a new article: Il Nilo e Mosè: dalla Vita di Mosè di Filone alle Etiopiche di Eliodoro by Nunzio Bianchi To read the article, please visit our website and scroll down to the preliminary version of Volume 19. Read more about Ancient Narrative has just published a new article -
ICAN 6 in Ghent: programme now finalized
2022-06-09Dear readers of AN-alert,
A message from Evelien Bracke on behalf of the ICAN programming committee:
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Dear colleagues,
We are delighted to announce that the programme of the Sixth International Conference on the Ancient Novel, with the theme ‘Roads less travelled’, has now been finalized.
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We have just published the final version of Ancient Narrative Volume 18
2022-05-18Dear Readers of AN-alert,
We have just published the final version of Ancient Narrative Volume 18, see the Archives at https://ancientnarrative.com/issue/archive.
The final version contains one new article, which hasn't been published in a preliminary version:
The Poetics of Mutilation in Apuleius’ Tale of Thelyphron (Met. 2,21-30)
By Stelios Panayotakis, Athanasios Papadimitriou & Eva GemenetziRoelf Barkhuis
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We have just published Petronian Society Newsletter 47
2022-05-13Dear readers of AN Alert,
We have just published Petronian Society Newsletter 47 on the PSN website at https://ugp.rug.nl/psn/index.
This is the direct link to PSN 47: https://ugp.rug.nl/psn/article/view/38665/36210
Roelf Barkhuis
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Ancient Narrative: New Supplement published
2022-04-04We have just published a new supplement:
Literary memory and new voices in the ancient novel
Ancient Narrative Supplement 29
Marília P. Futre Pinheiro & J.R. Morgan (eds.)
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Ancient Narrative: Registration for the Sixth International Conference on the Ancient Novel is now open
2022-03-16Dear reader,
Registration for the Sixth International Conference on the Ancient Novel: Roads less Travelled is now open, see https://www.novelsaints.ugent.be/ican-vi.
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Ancient Narrative: New article published
2022-03-14Ancient Narrative has just published a new article:
Embarquer pour l’Inde, un motif narratif chez Xénophon d’Éphèse, Lucien et Philostrate
by PATRICK ROBIANOThis is the first article in AN 19, preliminary version. We will soon publish the final version of AN 18.
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Ancient Narrative and the Petronian Society Newsletter
2022-02-09All issues of the Petronian Society Newsletter (PSN), starting from the very first issue, have now been moved from the Ancient Narrative website or copied from the University of Florida website to the new PSN website at https://ugp.rug.nl/psn.
The new archive with pdfs of PSN 1-46 is fully searchable, although text recognition is not perfect in the older pdfs, which are scans from printed issues.
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New online workshop by the Novel Echoes ERC-project at Ghent University
2022-02-02Your attention please for a new online workshop by the Novel Echoes ERC-project at Ghent University: "We are delighted to invite you to a one-day online workshop organized by the Novel Echoes ERC-project at Ghent University, as part of the Ghent-Kent-Lille cross-border research programme, taking place on February 4th 2022."
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We have just published a new article and a new issue of PSN
2022-01-20We have Just published this article:
La Troiae Halosis: l’ecfrasi del maestro e del poeta (Sat. 89, vv. 1-65)
By Laura GiancolaVisit the Ancient Narrative website at https://ancientnarrative.com to view and/or download the article.
We have also just published Petronian Society Newsletter 46 (PSN 46)!
This and following issues of PSN will be published on the new PSN website at https://ugp.rug.nl/psn. There is also a direct link to the new PSN issue in the Archives of the Ancient Narrative website at https://ancientnarrative.com/issue/archive.
All previous issues of PSN, starting from the very first issue, will be transferred to this new website at https://ugp.rug.nl/psn. This will take some time, and we will keep you updated on our progress.
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Ancient Narrative New article: All’s Well that Ends Well? A Reflection by K.R. Bradley
2022-01-10We have Just published this article:
All’s Well that Ends Well? A Reflection
by K.R. BradleyVisit the Ancient Narrative website at https://ancientnarrative.com to view and/or download the article.
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A new volume of the Groningen Apuleius commentary series has appeared
2021-10-20A new volume of the Groningen Apuleius commentary series has appeared:
Leonardo Costantini, ed.
Apuleius Madaurensis, Metamorphoses III
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We have a new article and the announcement of ICAN VI for you
2021-06-30We have a new article and the announcement of ICAN VI for you.
We have Just published this article:
Philostratus, the cup of Tantalus and the bowl of Buddha
by Attilio MastrocinqueSee our homepage.
We also have an announcement of the Sixth International Conference on the Ancient Novel.
The Sixth International Conference on the Ancient Novel (ICAN VI), with the theme ‘Roads less travelled’, will take place from 21st to 24th September 2022 and will be hosted in hybrid form, both in Ghent (Belgium) and online.
Proposals are hereby invited for papers and panels. The conference is open to all areas of study related to the ancient novel.
If you wish to present a paper or panel at ICAN VI, you are requested to submit an anonymized abstract with a maximum of 400 words. The deadline for abstract submission is 30th November 2021.
Further information and submission guidelines can be found at https://www.novelsaints.ugent.be/call-papers-ican-vi.
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Apuleius conference 2nd of June 2021
2021-05-27We have an announcement of an Apuleius conference
The metamorphoses of Apuleius: from ancient texts to modern reception
2nd of June 2021,
Mickiewicz Parlour, Collegium Maius, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
(online participation also possible)
For all details please contact: Mateusz Stróżyński monosautos@gmail.com
PROGRAM: see full description
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Ancient Narrative New Article
2021-04-15We have just published a new article:
Yawning matters: What can hiatus tell us about the lost Greek novels? What can the heroon in honor of Kineas on the Banks of the Oxus River tell us about The wonders beyond Thule?
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Petronius’ Satyricon and Seneca’s Apocolocyntosis, edited and translated by Gareth Schmeling
2021-03-22Dear friends, colleagues, readers of Ancient Narrative-Alert,
I hope that my warm greetings and brief message from cold Scotland find all of you well and safe. Although the AN-Alert circulation list does not normally advertise new books on the ancient novel, I am most grateful to Roelf Barkhuis for allowing me to share with you from this forum my excitement when I received through Amazon post this morning a copy of Petronius’ Satyricon and Seneca’s Apocolocyntosis, edited and translated by Gareth Schmeling for the Loeb Classical Library series (Cambridge, Mass. and London, December 2020) (https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674997370). I am thrilled to have this volume, I look forward to reading it, and I wish to express my heartfelt gratitude to dear Gareth for decades of inspiring work on dear Petronius. Subscribers to this list may already know about this new book; I feel sure they would like to join me in congratulating Gareth on its publication.
With my best wishes, Costas
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Announcement for online seminar
2021-03-05You are hereby cordially invited to the online seminar series ‘Novel Echoes: Ethiopian and Babylonian Stories in Byzantium and Beyond’.
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Ancient Narrative has just published a new article
2021-03-04Ancient Narrative has just published a new article at https://ancientnarrative.com.
Ninus and Metiochus in the school of rhetoric: the first Greek novels
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Ancient Narrative has just published a new Supplement
2021-02-17Dear Readers:
Ancient Narrative has just published a new Supplement:
Prophets, Viziers and Philosophers
Wisdom and Authority in Early Arabic Literature
Ancient Narrative Supplement 29
Emily J. Cottrell (ed.)For more information, like the table of contents and the abstracts, visit the Archives at https://ancientnarrative.com.
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Ancient Narrative: New Article Published
2021-02-09Ancient Narrative has just published a new article at https://ancientnarrative.com. The new article appears in Volume 18, Preliminary version.
Heliodorus’ Aethiopica: A New Patristic Context
By Katherine KraussWe have also published the final edition of Volume 17, which is now available in the Archives.
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Job vacancy: fully-funded Postdoctoral Research Fellowship
2020-12-11Job vacancy: fully-funded Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in late antique and/or medieval Greek and Near Eastern narrative (2 years) at Ghent University (Belgium)
The Department of Literary Studies at Ghent University (Belgium) is seeking well-qualified applicants for a fully-funded and full-time postdoctoral research fellowship in 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 reception. See here for the full announcement.
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We have just published a new article in Ancient Narrative Volume 17, preliminary edition
2020-09-07We have just published a new article:
Parthenope’s novel: P.Berol. 7927 + 9588 + 21179, II column revisited
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2020-08-12We have just published a new article:
Worm Food: Towards a Typology of Worm and Lice Disease-Descriptions in Graeco-Roman Narratives
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We have just published a new article in Ancient Narrative Volume 17, preliminary edition
2020-08-06We have just published a new article:
Anthia and Habrocomes in Full Bloom: A Literary Onomastic Analysis of Erotic Andreia and Lasting Beauty in Xenophon's Ephesiaca
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We have just published a new article in Ancient Narrative Volume 17, preliminary edition
2020-05-13We have just published a new article in Ancient Narrative Volume 17, preliminary version:
Sobre el concepto de ficción bizantina
by Tomás FernándezSee https://ancientnarrative.com.
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New Ancient Narrative Supplement and new issue of the Petronian Society Newsletter
2020-02-28We have just published a new Ancient Narrative Supplement and a new issue of the Petronian Society Newsletter:
Petronian Society Newsletter Volume 45
Edited by Edmund P. Cueva, Shannon N. Byrne and Gareth SchmelingSlaves and Masters in the Ancient Novel
Ancient Narrative Supplement 23
Edited by Stelios Panayotakis & Michael Paschalis
With an Introduction by Costas PanayotakisBoth publications are in the Archives of the Ancient Narrative website. Their publication date lies in 2019, so you will have to scroll down to find them.
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We have just published one new article and one new review
2020-02-27We have just published one new article and one new review in Ancient Narrative Volume 17, preliminary version:
Nommer les personnages perses dans le roman grec :
les choix de Chariton, Callirhoé, et d'Heliodore, les Éthiopiques
Patrick RobianoGiulio Vannini, Storia di Apollonio re di Tiro
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We have just published two new reviews in Ancient Narrative Volume 17, preliminary version:
2020-02-25We have just published two new reviews in Ancient Narrative Volume 17, preliminary version:
Longos, Daphnis und Chloe: Ein poetischer Liebesroman
Herausgegeben, ubersetzt, kommentiert und mit einem Nachwort versehen von Ondrej Cikan und Georg Danek
Niklas HolzbergGiulio Vannini, Storia di Apollonio re di Tiro
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Just published: a new article in Ancient Narrative Volume 17, preliminary version
2020-02-17We have just published a new article in Ancient Narrative Volume 17, preliminary version:
Seneca, Apokolokynthosis and fritilli
Attilio MastrocinqueSee https://ancientnarrative.com.
For more information about this and other announcements, see the Announcements section at https://ancientnarrative.com.
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Just published: the first article of Ancient Narrative Volume 17, preliminary version
2020-01-28We have just published the first article of Ancient Narrative Volume 17, preliminary version:
The Acts of John, the Acts of Andrew and the Greek Novel
by Jan N. BremmerSee https://ancientnarrative.com.
For more information about this and other announcements, see the Announcements section at https://ancientnarrative.com.
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We have just published the final version of Ancient Narrative Volume 16
2020-01-23We have just published the final version of Ancient Narrative Volume 16, see the Archives at https://ancientnarrative.com/issue/archive.
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Call for Papers Leuven Conference: The Tale of Two Traditions. Roman Culture and Ancient Greek Narratives under the Principate
2019-11-29Call for Papers
The Tale of Two Traditions. Roman Culture and Ancient Greek Narratives under the Principate
International workshop at Ghent University, Thursday 28th – Friday 29th May 2020.
Deadline for submission of abstracts: 29/02/2020.
Confirmed speakers include: Dr. Romain Brethes (Paris, AnHiMa); Dr. Casper de Jonge (Leiden); Dr. Daniel Jolowicz (King’s College London).
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UGent (Belgium) advertises one postdoctoral researcher post (two years full-time)
2019-11-19The Novel Echoes project is an ERC-funded research project at the UGent (Belgium), which researches the reception of the ancient novel in medieval literature. We are currently advertising one postdoctoral researcher post (two years full-time).
All information can be found on our website: https://www.novelsaints.ugent.be/news/vacancy-postdoctoral-researcher. The application deadline is 20th December 2019.
Please do share this information with any interested parties. The information can also be found and shared on social media (facebook and twitter both @NovelSaints).
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SCS Conference Panel about The Ancient Novel and Material Culture
2019-11-07SCS Conference Panel about The Ancient Novel and Material Culture in Chicago, IL, January 2021 (https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/2021/152/ancient-novel-and-material-culture)
The ancient novels are populated not just by people but also by objects. While individual studies, particularly on ekphrasis, have examined some of the uses of physical objects in ancient novels (Bartsch 1989; Holzmeister 2014) or the depiction of scenes from ancient novels on objects (e.g. Bruneau 1965), there have been few systematic examinations of the presence, function, and interpretations of material objects in and about ancient prose fiction more broadly. Notable exceptions include Magdeleine Clo's 2014 thesis, Les objets dans le roman grec, and the 2016 Rethymnon International Conference on the Ancient Novel on "Material Culture and the Ancient Novel" (Oct. 14-15), both of which have demonstrated the potential of examining objects within ancient novels as tools of characterization, plot devices, and symbols, but the topic has thus far received little attention in the United States.
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New articles on the Greek novel in Femmes grecques de l'Orient romain
2019-11-06New articles on the Greek novel have recently been published in:
Femmes grecques de l'Orient romain
Dialogues d'histoire ancienne, supplément 18The Denigration and Marginalisation of Women in Philostratus' Lives of the sophists
Ewen L. BowieRéalités et représentations des femmes dans les sociétés civiques du roman grec
Sophie LalanneFemme éplorée, femme libérée ? Soumission et autonomie chez les femmes du roman grec
R. BrethesFor more information, see http://pufc.univ-fcomte.fr/dialogues-d-histoire-ancienne-supplement-18.html
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New Ancient Narrative Supplement
2019-10-31We have just published a new Ancient Narrative Supplement:
Some Organic Readings in Narrative, Ancient and Modern
Gathered and originally presented as a book for John
Ian Repath & Fritz-Gregor Herrmann (eds.)
ISBN 9789492444943For more information and some free articles, please see the Archives at https://ancientnarrative.com.
For ordering information, please visit https://www.barkhuis.nl/product_info.php?products_id=248, or contact your local bookseller.
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A new article has just been published
2019-10-25A new article has just been published:
Euanthes and the World of Rhetoric in Achilles Tatius’ Leucippe and Cleitophon
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A new article has just been published
2019-10-15A new article has just been published:
The Disputes between Appion and Clement in the Pseudo-Clementine Homilies:
A Narrative and Rhetorical Approach to the Structure of Hom. 6
By BENJAMIN DE VOS
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9th Rethymnon International Conference on the Ancient Novel
2019-09-279th Rethymnon International Conference on the Ancient Novel
“Body and Text in the Ancient Novel”
9-11 OCTOBER 2019, XENIARead more for the full program...
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Ancient Narrative: a new article has just been published
2019-09-13A new article has just been published:
Duped by an ass: Revisiting the chronology of Apuleius’ Metamorphoses
by Enlli LewisLink: https://ancientnarrative.com
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Ancient Narrative: two new articles have just published
2019-09-10Two new articles have just been published:
The sanctuary of Delphi in Heliodorus’ Aethiopica Between material culture and intertextuality
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Cecilia Nobili
Theatricality and self-fashioning Reading Apollonius’ dramatic performance in Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri chapter 16
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Job vacancies: two fully-funded ERC PhD studentships (4 years each) at Ghent University (Belgium)
2019-06-28The 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
2019-05-29Conference Announcement RICAN 9, ‘Body and Text in the Ancient Novel’, on 10-11 October 2019.
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Just published: Animo Decipiendi?
2019-03-04Barkhuis 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?
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Rethinking fakes and authorship in Classical, Late Antique, & Early Christian Works
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Conference Announcement: Writing The Embodied Experience in Imperial Ecphrasis
2019-02-12WRITING THE EMBODIED EXPERIENCE IN IMPERIAL ECPHRASIS
Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge, 4th–5th September 2019
https://embodiedecphrasis.weebly.com/
Twitter: @EmbodEcphrasisHow 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
2018-11-26We 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 9789492444561See 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
2018-10-10We 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: 9789492444714See 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
2018-10-08Petronian Society Newsletter Volume 44 has appeared, see the Archives.
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Update Conference Announcement: Heliodorus in New Contexts
2018-05-07Conference 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
2018-01-26Call 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
2017-09-25We 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 TagliabueSee 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, or from your bookseller.
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Barefaced Greek
2017-06-30Ancient Narrative received the message here below.
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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
2017-05-29Richard 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
2017-01-27We 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 SchwartzSee the Archives for more information and free parts of the book.
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Petronian Society Newsletter Volume 43 Published
2017-01-18Petronian Society Newsletter Volume 43 has appeared, see the Archives.
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