Reading Heliodorus' Aethiopica /
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.
| Other Authors: | , |
|---|---|
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Oxford ; New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
2022.
|
| Edition: | First edition. |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- 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.