Ancient Narrative has just published its first Special Issue

2026-01-22

We have just published our first Special Issue:  Receptions of Ancient and Late Antique Narrative Travelling East, edited by Koen De Temmerman and Mara Nicosia.

Receptions of Ancient and Late Antique Narrative Travelling East: Introduction
by Mara Nicosia, Koen De Temmerman

Between Christian Faith and Classical Learning:
Symeon Seth’s Use of Quotes in Stephanites kai Ichnelates
by Lilli Hölzlhammer

Homer, Heliodorus and Pseudo-Callisthenes in Antony of Tagrit’s Rhetoric
by Mara Nicosia

A Feathered Thing Happened on the Way to the Agora:
A Syriac Variant of the Riddle of the Sphinx
by Simon Kootstra-Ford

The Arabic Translation of the Tablet of Cebes:
On the Value of Literature
by Teddy Fassberg

Jesus’ Bat and Echoing Narratives
by Ali B. Langroudi

To read the article, please visit our website at https://ancientnarrative.com, and scroll down to the Special Issue in Volume 20, preliminary version.

Roelf Barkhuis
Publisher of Ancient Narrative