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Focusing on the latest, longest, and greatest of the ancient Greek romances, this volume exploring Heliodorus' Aethiopica brings together fifteen established experts, each exploring a passage or section of the text in depth.
Cover -- Reading Heliodorus' Aethiopica -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- 1: Introduction: Reading Heliodorus -- 2: Odyssean and Herodotean Threads in the Tainia of Heliodorus' Opening Chapters (1.1-5) -- 3: Visualizing Assemblages: Demaenete, Thisbe's Bed-Trick,and the Creation of Charicleia (1.15-17) -- 3.1 Demaenete's Incestuous Desire -- 3.2. The Bed-Trick -- 3.3. Visualizing Charicleia -- 4: Thisbe's Intrigue: A Plot between Deception and Illusion (1.15-17) -- 5: Theagenes' Second Lament (2.4) -- 5.1. Theagenes' Lament and the Reception of Heliodorus -- 5.2. Theagenes' Second Lament in Context -- 6: Cnemon Meets Calasiris (2.21-2) -- 6.1. The Literary References -- 6.2. Narratological Paradoxes -- 6.3. Suspense -- 7: Allegory, Recognition, and Identity: The Egyptian Homer in Context (3.11.5-15.1) -- 7.1. Appearance and Reality in Calasiris' Vision (3.11.5-12.1) -- 7.2. Recognizing the Gods and Reading Homer -- 7.3. Neoplatonism, Calasiris, and Allegorical Logic -- 7.4. Homer's Biography -- 7.5. Reading the Figure of Homer -- 8: The Mustering of the Delphians (4.19-21) -- 8.1. Beginning Again -- 8.2. How Do Wars Start? -- 8.3. Questions of Consent -- 8.4. Conclusion -- 9: Calasiris on Zacynthus and His Dream of Odysseus (5.17-22) -- 9.1. The Voyage to Zacynthus: Navigation, Realism, and Intertextual Opportunity -- 9.2. The Heliodoran Odysseus -- 10: Life, the Cosmos, and Everything (5.26-34) -- 10.1. Context -- 10.2. The Pirate's Interpretation of the Good -- 10.3. The Expert's Interpretation of the Storm -- 10.4. The Interpretation of the Arrival and of the Celebrations -- 10.5. Misplaced and Incongruous Visions and Priorities -- 10.6. Epic (and Other) Associations -- 10.7. Refocusing -- 10.8. Closure and Remembering the daimonion -- 10.9. Statue, Conceptions of Divinity, Resignation.
10.10. Appendix on 'Butness' -- 11: On the Road Again (6.1-4) -- 11.1. Keep Going! -- 11.2. Cnemon on Stage -- 11.3. Narrative Withheld -- 11.4. Connecting Narratives -- 11.5. Stupefied Silences -- 11.6. Conclusions -- 12: Charicleia's Dark Night of the Soul (6.8-11) -- 13: Epic into Drama (7.6-8)* -- 14: Enter Arsace and Her Entourage!: Lust, Gender, Ethnicity, and Class at the Persian Court (Books 7 and 8) -- 14.1. Preliminaries -- 14.2. The Multidimensional Court of Arsace -- 14.3. Portrait of Arsace -- 14.4. Cultural Hybridity -- 14.5. Gender and Ethnicity -- 14.6. Social Status and Class Resentment: Achaemenes -- 15: Sending the Reader Round the Bend (8.14-17) -- 15.1. Content and Context -- 15.2. The Characters' Perspectives and Reader's Expectations -- 15.3. The Setting in the Bend -- 15.4. The Bend in the Nile -- 15.5. Ambush, Colour, Siege, and Sacrifice -- 15.6. Conclusion -- 16: The Siege of Syene: Ekphrasis and Imagination (9.3) -- 16.1. The Passage and Its Context -- 16.2. Ways and Means -- 16.3. A Portrait of the King as a Military Leader -- 16.4. Figures in the Earth -- 16.5. Hydaspes' Works as a Metaliterary Artefact -- 16.6. Hydaspes as Author and Creator -- 16.7. Conclusion -- 17: Sphragis 1: To Infinity and Beyond (10.41.4) -- 18: Sphragis 2: The Limits of Reality and the End of the Novel (10.41.3-4) -- 18.1. Historiographical Posing(?) -- 18.2. The End of the Novel(?) -- References -- Index Locorum -- General Index.
This edition also issued in print: 2022.
Includes bibliographical references and index.