خوانندگان و نویسندگان در رمان باستانی: چهارمین کنفرانس بین‌المللی رثیمنون در مورد رمان باستانی (RICAN 4) که در دانشگاه کرت برگزار شد، ۲۱-۲۲ مه ۲۰۰۷

The present volume comprises most of the papers delivered at RICAN 4 in 2007. The focus is placed on readers and writers in the ancient novel and broadly in ancient fiction, though without ignoring readers and writers of the ancient novel. The papers offer a wide and rich range of perspectives: the reading of novels in antiquity as a process of active engagement with the text (Konstan); the dialogic character, involving writer and reader, of Lucian's Verae Historiae (Futre Pinheiro); book divisions in Chariton's Callirhoe as prompts guiding the reader towards gradual mastery over the text (Whitmarsh); polypragmosyne (curiosity) in ancient fiction and how it affects the practice of reading novels (Hunter); the intriguing relationship between the writing and reading of inscriptions in ancient fiction (Slater); the tension between public and private in constructing and reading of texts inserted in the novelistic prose (Nimis); the intertextual pedigree of the poet Eumolpus (Smith); Seneca's Claudius and Petronius' Encolpius as readers of Homer and Virgil and writers of literary scenarios (Paschalis); the ways in which some Greek novels draw the reader's attention to their status as written texts (Bowie); the interfaces between tellers and receivers of stories in Antonius Diogenes (Morgan); the generic components and the putative author of the Alexander Romance (Stoneman); Diktys as a writer and ways of reading his Ephemeris (Dowden); the presence and character of Iliadic intertexts in Apuleius' Metamorphoses (Harrison); the contrasting roles of the narrator-translator in Apuleius' Metamorphoses and De deo Socratis (Fletcher); seriocomic strategies by Roman authors of narrative fiction and fable (Graverini & Keulen); reading as a function for recognizing 'allegorical moments' in the Metamorphoses of Apuleius (Zimmerman); active and passive reading as embedded in Philostratus' Life of Apollonius; and the importance of book reading in Augustine's 'novelistic' Confessions (Hunink). The Active Reader And The Ancient Novel / David Konstan -- Dialogues Between Readers And Writers In Lucian's Verae Histioriae / Marília Futre Pinheiro -- Divide And Rule : Segmenting Callirhoe And Related Works / Tim Whitmarsh -- The Curious Incident-- : Polypragmosyne And The Ancient Novel / Richard Hunter -- Reading Inscription In The Ancient Novel / Niall Slater -- Cite And Sound : The Prosaics Of Quotation In The Ancient Novel / Stephen Nimis -- Eumolpus The Poet / Warreb S. Smith -- Seneca's Apocolocyntosis And Petronius' Satyricon / Michael Paschalis -- The Uses Of Bookishness / Ewen Bowie -- Readers Writing Readers, And Writers Reading Writers : Reflections Of Antonius Diogenes / John Morgan -- The Author Of The Alexander Romance / Richard Stoneman -- Reading Diktys : The Discreet Charm Of Bogosity / Ken Dowden -- Apuleius And Homer : Some Traces Of The Iliad In The Metamorphoses / Stephen Harrison -- No Success Like Failure : The Task Of The Translator In Apuleius' Metamorphoses / Richard Fletcher -- Roman Fiction And Its Audience : Seriocomic Assertions Of Authority / Luca Graverini And Wytse Keulen -- 'food For Thought' For Readers Of Apuleius' The Golden Ass / Maaike Zimmerman -- To Reason And To Marvel : Images Of The Reader In The Life Of Apollonius / Jean-philippe Guez -- Hating Homer, Fighting Virgil : Books In Augustine's Confessions / Vincent Hunink. Edited By Michael Paschalis, Stelios Panayotakis, Gareth Schmeling. The Papers Represented In This Volume Were Originally Delivered At The Fourth Conference On 'readers And Writers In The Ancient Novel' Held At The University Of Crete On 21-22 May 2007. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes.