Love and Providence provides the first study of the recognition scene in Greek "romantic" novels and its significance in the ancient literary tradition.
Love and Providence provides the first study of the recognition scene in Greek "romantic" novels and its significance in the ancient literary tradition.
Silvia Montiglio is Basil L. Gildersleeve Professor of Classics at Johns Hopkins University.
Inhaltsangabe
* Preface * Introduction * Chapter 1. True Love and Immediate Recognition * Callirhoe: Something in the Way She Breathes * The Ephesiaca: Slow and Quick Eyes * Chapter 2. Beauty, Dress, and Identity * Leucippe and Clitophon: Teasing Expectations * Daphnis and Chloe: Too Beautiful to Be Shepherds * Chapter 3. Reading Identity: Recognitions in the Aethiopica * First, Misidentifications * The Recognition of Chariclea * Reading Recognitions * Chapter 4. A Gift of Providence? Recognitions in Two Roman Novels * The Satyrica: Recognition and Capture * The Golden Ass: Recognition and Return * Chapter 5. From the Pagan Novels to Early Jewish and Christian Narratives: Refashioning Recognition * Telling my whole life with his words:" Recognitions in Apollonius of Tyre * "Who are you?" Joseph and Aseneth, or It Is Impossible to Recognize a Convert * Recognition of Family and Recognition of God in the Pseudo-Clementine Recognitions * Dress and Recognition: A Novelistic Motif Becomes Christian * Epilogue. The Greek Novel in the History of the Recognition Motif * Tragedy and Comedy * Future Influences: Highlights * Bibliography * Index
* Preface * Introduction * Chapter 1. True Love and Immediate Recognition * Callirhoe: Something in the Way She Breathes * The Ephesiaca: Slow and Quick Eyes * Chapter 2. Beauty, Dress, and Identity * Leucippe and Clitophon: Teasing Expectations * Daphnis and Chloe: Too Beautiful to Be Shepherds * Chapter 3. Reading Identity: Recognitions in the Aethiopica * First, Misidentifications * The Recognition of Chariclea * Reading Recognitions * Chapter 4. A Gift of Providence? Recognitions in Two Roman Novels * The Satyrica: Recognition and Capture * The Golden Ass: Recognition and Return * Chapter 5. From the Pagan Novels to Early Jewish and Christian Narratives: Refashioning Recognition * Telling my whole life with his words:" Recognitions in Apollonius of Tyre * "Who are you?" Joseph and Aseneth, or It Is Impossible to Recognize a Convert * Recognition of Family and Recognition of God in the Pseudo-Clementine Recognitions * Dress and Recognition: A Novelistic Motif Becomes Christian * Epilogue. The Greek Novel in the History of the Recognition Motif * Tragedy and Comedy * Future Influences: Highlights * Bibliography * Index
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