Announcements

• 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 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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