To my teachers, who taught me the pleasures and privileges as well as the methods and responsibilities of scholarship. Acknowledgements It is a great pleasure to acknowledge the assistance of many people who shaped this book during its maturation, and who encouraged me during my work on it in less obvious ways. Homeric Conversation began as a doctoral dissertation, and my first and deepest thanks go… Read more
Bibliography I. Editions of Greek Novels 1. Ancient Greek Novels Colonna, A. 1938. Heliodori Aethiopica. Rome. Molinié, M. 1979. De Chaerea et Callirrhoe. Paris. Papanikolaou, A. D. 1973. Xenophontis Ephesii Ephesiacorum libri V: De amoribus Anthiae et Abrocomae. Leipzig. Reeve, M. D. 1994. Daphnis et Chloe. Stuttgart. Vilborg, E. Read more
Final Thoughts Through their multilayered responses to the past and their present, the Komnenian novels mediate first between antiquity and the Middle Ages and, second, between the Middle Ages and modernity. Due to its inherent discursive plasticity, the genre of the novel offered the Komnenian writers a dynamic literary medium for the exploration of a number of ideological and conceptual tensions ensuing from originally antithetical but often… Read more
Chapter 4. Comic Modulations … But com thou Goddes fair and free,In Heav’n yclept Euphrosyne,And by men, heart-easing Mirth,Whom lovely Venus at a birthWith two sisters Graces moreTo Ivy-crowned Bacchus bore;Or whether (as som Sager sing)The frolick Wind that breathes the Spring,Zephir with Aurora playing,As he met her once a-Maying,There on Beds of Violets blew,And… Read more
Chapter 3. Allegorical Modulations Soubtiles couvertures de belles matieres soubzfictions delitables et morales. Christine de Pizan, Avision Better chastity, the invisible flowerthat rocks atop the stalks of silence,the difficult diamond of the holy saintsthat filters desires, satiates time,the marriage of quietude and motion,solitude sings within its corolla,every hour is a petal of crystal,the world… Read more
Chapter 2. Rhetorical Modulations in the Komnenian Novel … You pick a fragmentOf grenade which pierced the body of a songOn Daphnis and Chloe. And you long,Ruefully, to have a talk with her,As if it were what life prepared you for.—How is it, Chloe, that your pretty skirtIs torn so badly by the winds that hurtReal people, you who,… Read more
Chapter 1. Toward a Poetics of Amphoteroglōssia The very small children in patched clothing,Being smitten with an unusual wisdom,Stopped in their play as she passed themAnd cried out from their cobbles: Guarda! Ahi, guarda! ch’ è be’a [*] But three years after thisI heard the young Dante, whose last name I do not know—… Read more
To the memory of my father Andreas Roilos (1928–1999) For my mother Ioanna Roilou Preface Systematic work on this book started in 1996; it was completed in early 2003 and since then only minor, mainly bibliographical and editorial, revisions have been made. I have profited from discussions with a considerable number of colleagues, students, and friends, who contributed valuable help and suggestions at various stages… Read more
Bibliography Adams, J. 1982. The Latin Sexual Vocabulary. London. Adrados, F. R. 1975. Festival, Comedy, and Tragedy. Leiden. ———. 1979. “The ‘Life of Aesop’ and the Origins of the Novel in Antiquity.” Quaderni Urbinati di Cultura Classica, n.s. 1:93–112. Adrados, F., ed. 1984. La Fable. Entretiens Fondation Hardt XXX. Vandoeuvres-Genève. … Read more
Appendix C: Themes Pharmakos themes 1. Ritual pollution. 1a. Crime of hero. Pharmakos. Aesop (imputed). Archilochus (imputed). Hesiod (imputed or actual). Socrates (imputed). 1a1. Criminal impiety. Aesop. Socrates (imputed) 1a1a. Theft of sacred things. Pharmakos. Aesop (imputed). 1a1b. Parricide. Oedipus. 1a1c. Incest. Oedipus. 1b. Crime against hero. Androgeus, Aesop. Archilochus. Hesiod. Socrates. Homer. 1b1. Inhospitality. Androgeus. Aesop. Hesiod. Homer. Read more
