Dear 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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Read More Read more about ICAN 6 in Ghent: programme now finalizedDear 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 Gemenetzi
Roelf Barkhuis
Publisher of Ancient Narrative
Dear 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
Publisher of Ancient Narrative and the Petronian Society Newsletter.
We 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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Dear 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.
Read More Read more about Ancient Narrative: Registration for the Sixth International Conference on the Ancient Novel is now openAncient Narrative has just published a new article:
Embarquer pour l’Inde, un motif narratif chez Xénophon d’Éphèse, Lucien et Philostrate
by PATRICK ROBIANO
This is the first article in AN 19, preliminary version. We will soon publish the final version of AN 18.
Read More Read more about Ancient Narrative: New article publishedAll 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.
Read More Read more about Ancient Narrative and the Petronian Society NewsletterYour 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."
Read More Read more about New online workshop by the Novel Echoes ERC-project at Ghent UniversityWe 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.
Read More Read more about We have just published a new article and a new issue of PSNWe have Just published this article:
All’s Well that Ends Well? A Reflection
by K.R. Bradley
Visit the Ancient Narrative website at https://ancientnarrative.com to view and/or download the article.
Read More Read more about Ancient Narrative New article: All’s Well that Ends Well? A Reflection by K.R. BradleyA new volume of the Groningen Apuleius commentary series has appeared:
Leonardo Costantini, ed.
Apuleius Madaurensis, Metamorphoses III
Read More Read more about A new volume of the Groningen Apuleius commentary series has appearedWe 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.
Read More Read more about We have a new article and the announcement of ICAN VI for youWe 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
Read More Read more about Apuleius conference 2nd of June 2021We 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
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
Read More Read more about Petronius’ Satyricon and Seneca’s Apocolocyntosis, edited and translated by Gareth SchmelingYou are hereby cordially invited to the online seminar series ‘Novel Echoes: Ethiopian and Babylonian Stories in Byzantium and Beyond’.
Read More Read more about Announcement for online seminarAncient 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
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.
Read More Read more about Ancient Narrative has just published a new SupplementAncient 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.
Read More Read more about Ancient Narrative: New Article PublishedJob 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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Read More Read more about Job vacancy: fully-funded Postdoctoral Research FellowshipWe 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
We have just published a new article:
Worm Food: Towards a Typology of Worm and Lice Disease-Descriptions in Graeco-Roman NarrativesWe 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
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.
Read More Read more about We have just published a new article in Ancient Narrative Volume 17, preliminary editionWe 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.
Read More Read more about New Ancient Narrative Supplement and new issue of the Petronian Society NewsletterWe 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
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
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.
Read More Read more about Just published: a new article in Ancient Narrative Volume 17, preliminary versionWe 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.
Read More Read more about Just published: the first article of Ancient Narrative Volume 17, preliminary versionWe have just published the final version of Ancient Narrative Volume 16, see the Archives at https://ancientnarrative.com/issue/archive.
Read More Read more about We have just published the final version of Ancient Narrative Volume 16Call 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).
Read More Read more about Call for Papers Leuven Conference: The Tale of Two Traditions. Roman Culture and Ancient Greek Narratives under the Principate
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 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).
Read More Read more about UGent (Belgium) advertises one postdoctoral researcher post (two years full-time)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.
Read More Read more about SCS Conference Panel about The Ancient Novel and Material CultureNew 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
Read More Read more about New articles on the Greek novel in Femmes grecques de l'Orient romainWe 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.
Read More Read more about New Ancient Narrative SupplementA new article has just been published:
Euanthes and the World of Rhetoric in Achilles Tatius’ Leucippe and Cleitophon
KATHERINE A. MCHUGH
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
Read More Read more about A new article has just been published
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...
Read More Read more about 9th Rethymnon International Conference on the Ancient NovelA new article has just been published:
Duped by an ass: Revisiting the chronology of Apuleius’ Metamorphoses
by Enlli Lewis
Link: https://ancientnarrative.com
Read More Read more about Ancient Narrative: a new article has just been publishedTwo 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
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...
Read More Read more about Job vacancies: two fully-funded ERC PhD studentships (4 years each) at Ghent University (Belgium)Conference Announcement RICAN 9, ‘Body and Text in the Ancient Novel’, on 10-11 October 2019.
Read More Read more about Conference Announcement RICAN 9Barkhuis 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
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?
Read More Read more about Conference Announcement: Writing The Embodied Experience in Imperial EcphrasisWe 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.
Read More Read more about Just published: Re-Wiring The Ancient Novel, Vols 1 and 2We 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.
Read More Read more about Just published: The Alexander Romance: History and LiteraturePetronian 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.
Read More Read more about Petronian Society Newsletter Volume 44 has appearedConference 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:
Read More Read more about Update Conference Announcement: Heliodorus in New ContextsCall 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
Read More Read more about Novel Saints Conference in Ghent, 22-24 November 2018: Call for papersWe 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.
Read More Read more about Just appeared: Xenophon’s EphesiacaAncient Narrative received the message here below.
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Read More Read more about Barefaced GreekWe 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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Read More Read more about Just appeared: From Bedroom to CourtroomPetronian Society Newsletter Volume 43 has appeared, see the Archives.
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