Announcements

We have just published a new article and a new issue of PSN

2022-01-20

We have Just published this article:

La Troiae Halosis: l’ecfrasi del maestro e del poeta (Sat. 89, vv. 1-65)
By Laura Giancola

Visit 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

2022-01-10

We have Just published this article:

All’s Well that Ends Well? A Reflection
by K.R. Bradley

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A new volume of the Groningen Apuleius commentary series has appeared

2021-10-20

A 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

2021-06-30

We 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 Mastrocinque

See 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

2021-05-27

We 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

2021-04-15

We 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?
By María Paz López Martínez
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Petronius’ Satyricon and Seneca’s Apocolocyntosis, edited and translated by Gareth Schmeling

2021-03-22

Dear 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

2021-03-05

You 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

2021-03-04

Ancient Narrative has just published a new article at https://ancientnarrative.com.

Ninus and Metiochus in the school of rhetoric: the first Greek novels
By Regla Fernández-Garrido
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Ancient Narrative has just published a new Supplement

2021-02-17

Dear 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

2021-02-09

Ancient 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 Krauss

We 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

2020-12-11

Job 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.

[with apologies for cross-posting]
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We have just published a new article in Ancient Narrative Volume 17, preliminary edition

2020-09-07

We have just published a new article:

Parthenope’s novel: P.Berol. 7927 + 9588 + 21179, II column revisited
By María Paz López Martínez, Consuelo Ruiz-Montero
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We have just published a new article in Ancient Narrative Volume 17, preliminary edition

2020-08-12

We 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

2020-08-06

We 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
by John Genter
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We have just published a new article in Ancient Narrative Volume 17, preliminary edition

2020-05-13

We have just published a new article in Ancient Narrative Volume 17, preliminary version:

Sobre el concepto de ficción bizantina
by Tomás Fernández

See https://ancientnarrative.com.
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New Ancient Narrative Supplement and new issue of the Petronian Society Newsletter

2020-02-28

We 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 Schmeling

Slaves and Masters in the Ancient Novel
Ancient Narrative Supplement 23
Edited by Stelios Panayotakis & Michael Paschalis
With an Introduction by Costas Panayotakis

Both 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

2020-02-27

We 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 Robiano

Giulio Vannini, Storia di Apollonio re di Tiro
reviewed by Luca Graverini
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We have just published two new reviews in Ancient Narrative Volume 17, preliminary version:

2020-02-25

We 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 Holzberg

Giulio Vannini, Storia di Apollonio re di Tiro
Luca Graverini
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Just published: a new article in Ancient Narrative Volume 17, preliminary version

2020-02-17

We have just published a new article in Ancient Narrative Volume 17, preliminary version:

Seneca, Apokolokynthosis and fritilli
Attilio Mastrocinque

See 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

2020-01-28

We 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. Bremmer

See 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

2020-01-23

We 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

2019-11-29

Call for Papers

The Tale of Two Traditions. Roman Culture and Ancient Greek Narratives under the Principate

International workshop at Ghent University, Thursday 28^th – Friday 29^th 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)

2019-11-19

The 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 20^th 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

2019-11-07

SCS 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

2019-11-06

New articles on the Greek novel have recently been published in:
Femmes grecques de l'Orient romain
Dialogues d'histoire ancienne, supplément 18

The Denigration and Marginalisation of Women in Philostratus' Lives of the sophists
Ewen L. Bowie

Réalités et représentations des femmes dans les sociétés civiques du roman grec
Sophie Lalanne

Femme éplorée, femme libérée ? Soumission et autonomie chez les femmes du roman grec
R. Brethes

For more information, see http://pufc.univ-fcomte.fr/dialogues-d-histoire-ancienne-supplement-18.html
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New Ancient Narrative Supplement

2019-10-31

We 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 9789492444943

For 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

2019-10-25

A new article has just been published:

Euanthes and the World of Rhetoric in Achilles Tatius’ Leucippe and Cleitophon
KATHERINE A. MCHUGH
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A new article has just been published

2019-10-15

A 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

2019-09-27

9th Rethymnon International Conference on the Ancient Novel
“Body and Text in the Ancient Novel”
9-11 OCTOBER 2019, XENIA

Read more for the full program...
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Ancient Narrative: a new article has just been published

2019-09-13

A new article has just been published:

Duped by an ass: Revisiting the chronology of Apuleius’ Metamorphoses
by Enlli Lewis

Link: https://ancientnarrative.com
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Ancient Narrative: two new articles have just published

2019-09-10

Two new articles have just been published:

The sanctuary of Delphi in Heliodorus’ Aethiopica Between material culture and intertextuality
Cecilia Nobili

Theatricality and self-fashioning Reading Apollonius’ dramatic performance in Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri chapter 16
Regine May
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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.
Register yourself, and we will notify you whenever we publish new volumes and issues of PSN, AN and the AN Supplements.
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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
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, or from your bookseller.
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Barefaced Greek

2017-06-30

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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
See the Archives for more information and free parts of the book.
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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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