The aim of this paper is drawing attention to a passage of the Ethiopian Stories by Heliodorus of Emesa (9,9,3) on the divinization of the Nile borrowed from Life of Moses (2,195) by Philo of Alexandria. This textual relationship, well known to Philo’s scholars, has so far not been considered instead by most Heliodorus’ scholars. Other possible intertextual references (lexical parallels, stylisations and analogies), noticed in this paper, point to the work by Philon as deliberately exploited inspiration for some passages of Heliodorus’ novel. All this is of greater importance for the Ethiopian novel and his author.
{"title":"Il Nilo e Mosè: dalla Vita di Mosè di Filone alle Etiopiche di Eliodoro","authors":"N. Bianchi","doi":"10.21827/an.19.39118","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21827/an.19.39118","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this paper is drawing attention to a passage of the Ethiopian Stories by Heliodorus of Emesa (9,9,3) on the divinization of the Nile borrowed from Life of Moses (2,195) by Philo of Alexandria. This textual relationship, well known to Philo’s scholars, has so far not been considered instead by most Heliodorus’ scholars. Other possible intertextual references (lexical parallels, stylisations and analogies), noticed in this paper, point to the work by Philon as deliberately exploited inspiration for some passages of Heliodorus’ novel. All this is of greater importance for the Ethiopian novel and his author.","PeriodicalId":193009,"journal":{"name":"Ancient narrative","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126388889","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The story of Cupid & Psyche in Apuleius’s Metamorphoses has long been valued for its literary qualities and philosophical implications. This study sets the story in the slave-owning culture to which it originally belonged. It pays special attention to the portrayal of Psyche as a runaway slave, and examines this construct through reference to the extensive body of Roman law that governed the treatment of fugitive slaves in real life. To support the story’s documentary potential, a comparison is drawn with a modern classic story of escape from servitude, Toni Morrison’s Beloved.
{"title":"On Psyche and Psychology: A Reflection","authors":"K. Bradley","doi":"10.21827/an.19.39336","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21827/an.19.39336","url":null,"abstract":"The story of Cupid & Psyche in Apuleius’s Metamorphoses has long been valued for its literary qualities and philosophical implications. This study sets the story in the slave-owning culture to which it originally belonged. It pays special attention to the portrayal of Psyche as a runaway slave, and examines this construct through reference to the extensive body of Roman law that governed the treatment of fugitive slaves in real life. To support the story’s documentary potential, a comparison is drawn with a modern classic story of escape from servitude, Toni Morrison’s Beloved.","PeriodicalId":193009,"journal":{"name":"Ancient narrative","volume":"85 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128488833","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Paradoxically, at a time when trade between the Mediterranean and India was developing across the Indian Ocean, Greek fiction literature did not mirror it, with the exception of Xenophon of Ephesus, Lucian, and Philostratus, in the form, nevertheless, of very rare micro-narratives. It is therefore a question, in this article, of analyzing the reasons for the crossing to India and of hightlighting its stakes, in particular the representation that Greek-speaking writers give of the actors of these exchanges : Greeks, the so-called Egyptians, and Indians. It is also a question of understanding why these new routes to India did not create an imaginary that fiction could have exploited. Paradoxalement, à une époque où le commerce entre la Méditerranée et l’Inde se développait à travers l’océan Indien, la littérature grecque de fiction n’en rendait pas compte, à l’exception de Xénophon d’Éphèse, de Lucien et de Philostrate, sous la forme, néanmoins, de très rares micro-récits. Il s’agit donc, dans cet article, d’analyser les raisons de la traversée vers l’Inde et de mettre en valeur ses enjeux, en particulier la représentation que des écrivains de langue grecque donnent des acteurs de ces échanges : les Grecs, les prétendus Égyptiens et les Indiens. Il s’agit aussi de comprendre pourquoi ces nouvelles routes vers l’Inde n’ont pas créé un imaginaire que la fiction aurait pu exploiter.
矛盾的是，当地中海和印度之间的贸易跨越印度洋发展起来的时候，希腊小说文学并没有反映这一点，除了以弗所的色诺芬、卢西恩和菲洛斯特拉托斯，他们以非常罕见的微观叙事的形式出现。因此，在本文中，分析前往印度的原因并强调其利害关系是一个问题，特别是讲希腊语的作家对这些交流的参与者的描述:希腊人，所谓的埃及人和印度人。这也是一个理解为什么这些通往印度的新路线没有创造出小说可以利用的想象的问题。矛盾的是， une sampoque où在商业中心内的电子商务活动，即在电子商务中心内的电子商务活动，即在电子商务中心内的电子商务活动，即在电子商务中心内的电子商务活动，即在电子商务中心内的电子商务活动，即在电子商务中心内的电子商务活动，即在电子商务中心内的电子商务活动，即在电子商务中心内的电子商务活动，即在电子商务中心内的电子商务活动，即在电子商务中心内的电子商务活动，即在电子商务中心内的电子商务活动，即在电子商务中心内的电子商务活动，即在电子商务中心内的电子商务活动。在这篇文章中，他说:“我不知道为什么要把所有的人都看成是一个人，我不知道为什么要把所有的人都看成是一个人，特别是把所有的人都看成是一个人，我不知道为什么要把所有的人都看成是一个人。”这是一种综合性的、有价值的、超越印度的新路线，而不是超越想象的、超越虚构的、超越剥削者的道路。
{"title":"Embarquer pour l’Inde, un motif narratif chez Xénophon d’Éphèse, Lucien et Philostrate","authors":"P. Robiano","doi":"10.21827/an.19.38447","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21827/an.19.38447","url":null,"abstract":"Paradoxically, at a time when trade between the Mediterranean and India was developing across the Indian Ocean, Greek fiction literature did not mirror it, with the exception of Xenophon of Ephesus, Lucian, and Philostratus, in the form, nevertheless, of very rare micro-narratives. It is therefore a question, in this article, of analyzing the reasons for the crossing to India and of hightlighting its stakes, in particular the representation that Greek-speaking writers give of the actors of these exchanges : Greeks, the so-called Egyptians, and Indians. It is also a question of understanding why these new routes to India did not create an imaginary that fiction could have exploited. Paradoxalement, à une époque où le commerce entre la Méditerranée et l’Inde se développait à travers l’océan Indien, la littérature grecque de fiction n’en rendait pas compte, à l’exception de Xénophon d’Éphèse, de Lucien et de Philostrate, sous la forme, néanmoins, de très rares micro-récits. Il s’agit donc, dans cet article, d’analyser les raisons de la traversée vers l’Inde et de mettre en valeur ses enjeux, en particulier la représentation que des écrivains de langue grecque donnent des acteurs de ces échanges : les Grecs, les prétendus Égyptiens et les Indiens. Il s’agit aussi de comprendre pourquoi ces nouvelles routes vers l’Inde n’ont pas créé un imaginaire que la fiction aurait pu exploiter.","PeriodicalId":193009,"journal":{"name":"Ancient narrative","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131895909","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
he aim of this paper is to underline the influence of school rhetoric in two passages of Ninus and Parthenope. Ninus' speech in presence of his aunt Derkeia (frag. A of P.Berol. 6926) is analysed from the point of view of the stasis-theory and its most relevant formal features are commented. Metiochus’ refutation of the traditional mythical narrative on Eros (second column of P.Berol.7927) is dealt with the progymnasmatic theory. Moreover, the love-related motifs and the references to the previous literature are highlighted.
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The article aims to explore the ekphrastic features of the Petronian Troiae Halosis, considering some passages especially from Aelius Theon’s Progymnasmata. A narratological purpose is thus suggested for the coexistence of diegetic and ekphrastic elements in the poem. The investigation relies on a substantial re-evaluation of the Troiae Halosis’s literary quality and, consequently, of Eumolpo's poetic skills, following the path already set by Collignon (1882) e Stubbe (1933).
{"title":"La Troiae Halosis: l’ecfrasi del maestro e del poeta (Sat. 89, vv. 1-65)","authors":"Laura Giancola","doi":"10.21827/an.18.38282","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21827/an.18.38282","url":null,"abstract":"The article aims to explore the ekphrastic features of the Petronian Troiae Halosis, considering some passages especially from Aelius Theon’s Progymnasmata. A narratological purpose is thus suggested for the coexistence of diegetic and ekphrastic elements in the poem. The investigation relies on a substantial re-evaluation of the Troiae Halosis’s literary quality and, consequently, of Eumolpo's poetic skills, following the path already set by Collignon (1882) e Stubbe (1933).","PeriodicalId":193009,"journal":{"name":"Ancient narrative","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126895885","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article argues that reading Heliodorus’ Aethiopica alongside post-Nicene Patristic texts sheds new light on its place within the multifaceted religious world of Late Antiquity. Through an analysis of three discrete test cases, this article brings to light the complexities of the Aethiopica’s incorporation of ideas which are prominent in contemporary Christian thought. In so doing, it presents new evidence for the fourth-century context in which Heliodorus produced his work.
{"title":"Heliodorus’ Aethiopica: A New Patristic Context","authors":"Katherine Krauss","doi":"10.21827/an.18.37330","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21827/an.18.37330","url":null,"abstract":"This article argues that reading Heliodorus’ Aethiopica alongside post-Nicene Patristic texts sheds new light on its place within the multifaceted religious world of Late Antiquity. Through an analysis of three discrete test cases, this article brings to light the complexities of the Aethiopica’s incorporation of ideas which are prominent in contemporary Christian thought. In so doing, it presents new evidence for the fourth-century context in which Heliodorus produced his work.","PeriodicalId":193009,"journal":{"name":"Ancient narrative","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131676513","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The aim of this study is to contextualize the fragments of the The Wonders beyond Thule in the set of lost Greek novels that have come to us in papyri paying special attention to the treatment of hiatus. The literary ambitions of Callirrhoe, Ninus, Parthenope, and The wonders beyond are similar and their ‘implicit readers’ would have belonged to the educated elite known by the term of pepaideumenoi and pepaideumenai. Other conclusion is that hiatus is a license that depends on the style of the author, but it can sometimes be attributed to an error by the scribe or a decision of the modern editor. The study includes value information about novel fragments since 1998 (edition by López-Martínez) and a hypothesis regarding archaeological materials (papyri and inscriptions) found in a Hellenistic city on the Banks of the Oxus River in Afghanistan, Ai Khanoum, which offer us tantalizing paralells for the fictional mise en scène of Diogenes’ novel.
{"title":"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?","authors":"María Paz López Martínez","doi":"10.21827/an.18.37478","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21827/an.18.37478","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this study is to contextualize the fragments of the The Wonders beyond Thule in the set of lost Greek novels that have come to us in papyri paying special attention to the treatment of hiatus. The literary ambitions of Callirrhoe, Ninus, Parthenope, and The wonders beyond are similar and their ‘implicit readers’ would have belonged to the educated elite known by the term of pepaideumenoi and pepaideumenai. Other conclusion is that hiatus is a license that depends on the style of the author, but it can sometimes be attributed to an error by the scribe or a decision of the modern editor. \u0000The study includes value information about novel fragments since 1998 (edition by López-Martínez) and a hypothesis regarding archaeological materials (papyri and inscriptions) found in a Hellenistic city on the Banks of the Oxus River in Afghanistan, Ai Khanoum, which offer us tantalizing paralells for the fictional mise en scène of Diogenes’ novel.","PeriodicalId":193009,"journal":{"name":"Ancient narrative","volume":"56 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129095838","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Panayotakis, Athanasios Papadimitriou, Eva Gemenetzi
This paper discusses the episode of Thelyphron in the second book of Apuleius’ Metamorphoses and explores the significance of the recurring references to the bodily parts of the narrator/hero Thelyphron in the tale, pointing out their centrality, intertextual connections, and metaliterary function in the narrative. We argue that the processes of mutilation and prosthesis regarding the hero’s face correspond to the multifaceted literary character of the tale, and we discuss how the intertextual background of the above-mentioned physical change raises questions about literary composition and artistic creation.
{"title":"The Poetics of Mutilation in Apuleius’ Tale of Thelyphron (Met. 2,21-30)","authors":"S. Panayotakis, Athanasios Papadimitriou, Eva Gemenetzi","doi":"10.21827/an.18.38676","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21827/an.18.38676","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses the episode of Thelyphron in the second book of Apuleius’ Metamorphoses and explores the significance of the recurring references to the bodily parts of the narrator/hero Thelyphron in the tale, pointing out their centrality, intertextual connections, and metaliterary function in the narrative. We argue that the processes of mutilation and prosthesis regarding the hero’s face correspond to the multifaceted literary character of the tale, and we discuss how the intertextual background of the above-mentioned physical change raises questions about literary composition and artistic creation.","PeriodicalId":193009,"journal":{"name":"Ancient narrative","volume":"138 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123283165","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The episode of Apollonius among the Indian ascetics, described by Philostratus, testifies to a good knowledge of Buddhist beliefs and customs. The magical bowl producing food and drink automatically is the pivotal element of different well-known accounts concerning Buddha. A Buddhist text, the Vimalakīrti Sūtra, provides us with a series of details also recurring in Philostratus. The magical bowl not only issues liquids as from a spring, but also does not let the liquid overflow and reach the rim. Tantalus should have been interpreted as a Buddhist philanthropic hero in the cultural milieu of the Indo-Greeks. A cup including a little statue of Tantalus who cannot touch the liquid surrounding him has been found in Vinkovci (Croatia). The wondrous cup of Tantalus explains a miracle performed by Septimius Severus in a desert and the mechanics of some spells and amulets for either stopping or producing hemorrhages.
{"title":"Philostratus, the cup of Tantalus and the bowl of Buddha","authors":"A. Mastrocinque","doi":"10.21827/an.18.37684","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21827/an.18.37684","url":null,"abstract":"The episode of Apollonius among the Indian ascetics, described by Philostratus, testifies to a good knowledge of Buddhist beliefs and customs. The magical bowl producing food and drink automatically is the pivotal element of different well-known accounts concerning Buddha. A Buddhist text, the Vimalakīrti Sūtra, provides us with a series of details also recurring in Philostratus. The magical bowl not only issues liquids as from a spring, but also does not let the liquid overflow and reach the rim. Tantalus should have been interpreted as a Buddhist philanthropic hero in the cultural milieu of the Indo-Greeks. A cup including a little statue of Tantalus who cannot touch the liquid surrounding him has been found in Vinkovci (Croatia). The wondrous cup of Tantalus explains a miracle performed by Septimius Severus in a desert and the mechanics of some spells and amulets for either stopping or producing hemorrhages.","PeriodicalId":193009,"journal":{"name":"Ancient narrative","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122608796","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The Greek and Latin novels of the Roman Imperial age mirror the reality that throughout the Mediterranean world in which their melodramatic stories are set slavery was a ubiquitous institution. Every extant novel takes for granted that the slave is a form of property over which rights of ownership are absolute, and that obedience to the will of the slave-owner is a normative expectation. Slave characters are seen accordingly filling an array of occupations, from the managerial to the menial; they are frequently bought and sold, and they receive rewards for meritorious behaviour and punishments for disobedience (often brutally inflicted). Slavery does not emerge consequently as an enviable condition but as the antithesis of a privileged freedom to which there is no universal claim. It is an unquestioned element of social and economic organization whose associations are entirely shameful. Given the novels’ fanciful plots, however, this summary might be said to overstate real-life circumstances, with authors exaggerating the misfortunes of slavery for the sake of the sensationalism their chosen form of literary creativity demanded. Yet as far as I can tell, it is largely borne out by historical evidence, especially the evidence of Roman law. The capital penalties of crucifixion, exposure to wild beasts, and burning alive once reserved for slaves alone were extended in the Imperial age to free persons of low status convicted of capital
{"title":"All’s Well that Ends Well? A Reflection","authors":"K. Bradley","doi":"10.21827/an.18.38232","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.21827/an.18.38232","url":null,"abstract":"The Greek and Latin novels of the Roman Imperial age mirror the reality that throughout the Mediterranean world in which their melodramatic stories are set slavery was a ubiquitous institution. Every extant novel takes for granted that the slave is a form of property over which rights of ownership are absolute, and that obedience to the will of the slave-owner is a normative expectation. Slave characters are seen accordingly filling an array of occupations, from the managerial to the menial; they are frequently bought and sold, and they receive rewards for meritorious behaviour and punishments for disobedience (often brutally inflicted). Slavery does not emerge consequently as an enviable condition but as the antithesis of a privileged freedom to which there is no universal claim. It is an unquestioned element of social and economic organization whose associations are entirely shameful. Given the novels’ fanciful plots, however, this summary might be said to overstate real-life circumstances, with authors exaggerating the misfortunes of slavery for the sake of the sensationalism their chosen form of literary creativity demanded. Yet as far as I can tell, it is largely borne out by historical evidence, especially the evidence of Roman law. The capital penalties of crucifixion, exposure to wild beasts, and burning alive once reserved for slaves alone were extended in the Imperial age to free persons of low status convicted of capital","PeriodicalId":193009,"journal":{"name":"Ancient narrative","volume":"86 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114661222","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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