Anderson, G., Folktale as a Source of Greco-Roman Fiction. The Origin of Popular Narrative (Lampeter: Mellen, 2007) 280 pp.

Bianchi, N., Il codice del romanzo. Tradizione manoscritta e ricezione dei romanzi greci (Bari: Ed. Dedalo, 2006) 281 pp.

García Gual, C., Historia, novela y tragedia (Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 2006) 273 pp.

König, J., “The Novel,” in The Edinburgh Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome, eds., E. Bispham, T. Harrison, B. A. Sparkes (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006) 329–334.

Laplace, M., Le roman d’Achille Tatios: “discours panégyrique” et imaginaire romanesque (Bern – New York: Peter Lang, 2007) xv + 797 pp.

Paschalis, M., Frangoulidis, S., Harrison, S., Zimmerman, M., eds., The Greek and the Roman Novel: Parallel Readings (Ancient Narrative. Supplementum 8) (Groningen: Barkhuis and Groningen University Library, 2007) xx + 307 pp. The volume includes these essays:

• Alvares, J., “The Coming of Age and Political Accommodation in the Greco-Roman Novels,” 3–22.
• Bowie, E., “Links Between Antonius Diogenes and Petronius,” 121–132.
• Brethes, R., “Who Knows What? The Access to Knowledge in Ancient Novels: the Strange Cases of Chariton and Apuleius,” 171–192.
• Dowden, K., “A Lengthy Sentence: Judging the Prolixity of the Novels,” 133–150.
• Finkelpearl, E., “Apuleius, the Onos, and Rome,” 263–267.
• Frangoulidis, S., “Transforming the Genre: Apuleius’ Metamorphoses,” 193–203.
• Freudenberg, K., “Leering for the Plot: Visual Curiosity in Apuleius and Others,” 238–262.
• Harrison, S., “Parallel Cults? Religion and Narrative in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses and Some Greek Novels,” 204–218.
• Laird, A., “The True Nature of the Satyricon?,” 151–168.
• Morgan, J., “Kleitophon and Encolpius: Achilleus Tatius as Hidden Author,” 105–120.
• Paschalis, M., “The Greek and the Latin Alexander Romance: Comparative Readings,” 70–102.
• Ruiz-Montero, C., “Magic in the Ancient Novel,” 38–56.
• Schmeling, G. “Narratives of Failure,” 23–37.
• Slater, N. W., “Posthumous Parleys: Chatting Up the Dead in the Ancient Novels,” 57–69.
• Smith, S. D., “Wonders Beyond Athens: Reading the ‘Phaedra’ Stories in Apuleius and Heliodoros,” 219–237.
• Zimmerman, M., “Aesop, the ‘Onos,’ The Golden Ass, and a Hidden Treasure,” 277–292.

Payne, M., Theocritus and the Invention of Fiction (Cambridge – New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007) viii + 183 pp.

Pouderon, B., Peigney, J., eds., Discours et débats dans l’Ancien Roman. Actes du Colloque de Tours, 21–23 octobre 2004, Collection de la Maison de l’Orient et de la Méditerranée n°36, série littéraire et philosophique n°10 (Lyon: Maison de l’Orient et de la Méditerranée, 2006) 362 pp. The volume includes these essays:

• Berranger-Ausserve, D., “Dialogues et débats dans les Éphésiaques de Xénophon d’Éphèse,” 15–26.
• Bianchi, N., “Grammata et rhemata du rapport entre communication écrite et orale dans les romans grecs,” 119–140.
• Billault, A., “Rhétorique et récit dans le roman d’Achille Tatius,” 77–86.
• Bost-Pouderon, C., “Discours et débats politiques dans le roman grec antique,” 327–350.
• Bowie, E., “Le discours direct dans le Daphnis et Chloé de Longus,” 27–40.
• Brethes, R., “Le discours du prêtre chez Achille Tatius, VIII, 9: une déconstruction de la paideia,” 177–190.
• Calvet-Sébasti, M., “Dialoguer avec une femme. L’exemple du roman pseudo-clémentin,” 217–230.
• Crismani, D., “Aux femmes convient—je crois—le silence,” 87–96.
• Cusset, C., “Discours divins et débats intérieurs dans les Pastorales de Longus,” 231–248.
• Daude, C., “La rhétorique de Callirhoé au livre II du roman de Chariton,” 191–216.
• De Temmerman, K., “Caractérisation et discours direct: le cas de Plangon,” 63–76.
• Dowden, K., “Pouvoir divin, discours humain chez Héliodore,” 249–262.
• Frangoulis, H., “Un discours chez Nonnos ou la transposition du roman grec,” 41–50.
• Jouanno, C., “Le débat d’Athènes dans la version ancienne du Roman d’Alexandre,” 309–326.
• Kasprzyk, D., “Discours de stratèges dans le roman de Chariton,” 281–308.
• Lassithiotakis, M., “Discours et débats dans le roman grec vulgaire (Callimachos—Belthandros—Florios—Imbérios),” 161–174.
• Létoublon, F., “La rhétorique du suicide,” 263–280.
• Morgan, J. R., “Un discours figuré chez Héliodore ‘comment, en disant l’inverse de ce qu’on veut, on peut accomplir ce qu’on veut sans sembler dire l’inverse de ce qu’on veut,’” 51–62.
• Nunez, L., “Daphnis et Chloé: Oralité—Auralité dans un roman antique: énonciation présente, énonciation au présent,” 97–118.
• Puccini-Delbey, G., “Les discours dans les Métamorphoses d’Apulée: vérité ou mensonge, ou faut-il croire celui qui parle?,” 141–152.
• Wolff, E., “Dialogues et discours dans l’Historia Apolloni regis Tyri,” 153–160.

Rimell, V., ed., Seeing Tongues, Hearing Scripts: Orality and Representation in the Ancient Novel (Ancient Narrative. Supplementum 7) (Groningen: Barkhuis and Groningen University Library, 2007) xxi + 340 pp. The volume includes these essays:

• Brethes, R., “Poiein aischra kai legein aischra, est ce vraiment la même chose? Ou la bouche souillée de Chariclée,” 223–256.
• Chew, K., “Divine Epistemology: the Relationship between Speech and Writing in the Aithiopika,” 279–298.
• Cucchiarelli, A., “Omero e la Sibilla. Mimesi e oralità nella Cena Trimalchionis,” 23–60.
• Graverini, L., “The Ass’s Ears and the Novel’s Voice. Orality and the Involvement of the Reader in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses,” 138–167.
• Hodkinson, O. “‘Novels in the Greek Letter’: Inversions of the Written-Oral Hierarchy in the Briefroman ‘Themistocles’,” 257–278.
• Keulen, W., “Vocis immutatio: The Apuleian Prologue and the Pleasures and Pitfalls of Vocal Versatility,” 106–137.
• König, J., “Orality and Authority in Xenophon of Ephesus,” 1–22.
• Marinčič, M., “Advertising One’s Own Story. Text and Speech in Achilles Tatius’ Leucippe and Clitophon,” 168–200.
• May, R., “Visualising Drama, Oratory and Truthfulness in Apuleius Metamorphoses 3,” 86–105.
• Panayotakis, S., “Fixity and Fluidity in Apollonius of Tyre,” 299–320.
• Rimell, V., “The Inward Turn: Writing, Voice and the Imperial Author in Petronius,” 61–85.
• Robiano, P., “La voix et la main: la lettre intime dans Chéréas et Callirhoé,” 201–222.

Rosenmeyer, P. A., Ancient Greek Literary Letters: Selections in Translation (London – New York: Routledge, 2006) 176 pp. The author touches upon Chariton, Achilles Tatius, and The Story of Apollonius King of Tyre in her chapter “Letters and Prose Fictions of the Second Sophistic.”

Schmeling, G., “Aspects of the Ancient Novel and the Nature of its Narrative,” in Concentus ex Dissonis: Scritti in onore di Aldo Setaioli, eds., C. Santini, L. Zurli, L. Cardinali (Naples: Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 2006) II.645–657.

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Bierl, A., “Räume im Anderen und der griechische Liebesroman des Xenophon von Ephesos. Träume?,” in Mensch und Raum von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart, ed., A. Loprieno (München – Leipzig: K. G. Saur, 2006) 71–103.

Bowie, E., “Pulling the Other? Longus on Tragedy,” in Visualizing the Tragic: Drama, Myth, and Ritual in Greek Art and Literature: Essays in Honour of Froma Zeitlin, ed., C. Shuttleworth Kraus (Oxford – New York: Oxford University Press, 2007) 338–352.

Caro, A., Gli amori pastorali, edizione critica, introduzione e note, ed., E. Garavelli, (Rome: Vecchiarelli, 2002) 290 pp.

De Temmerman, K., “L’ ektrosis nel romanzo di Caritone: un approcio storico (I),” Maia 57 (2005) 291–301.

De Temmerman, K., “A Narrator of Wisdom. Characterization through gnomai in Achilles Tatius,” Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics March 2007: www.princeton.edu/~pswpc/papers/author/DeTemmerman/De%20Temmerman.html.

Dobias-Lalou, C., “Que faisait Dryas en sa vigne ? Longus, Daphnis et Chloè, 1, 19, 1,” in Mélanges offerts à Michel Casevitz, eds., P. Brillet-Dubois, É. Parmentier (Lyon: Maison de l’ Orient et de la Méditerranée, 2006) 253–260.

Föllinger, S., “Heliodor,” in Antike Medizin. Ein Lexikon, ed., K. Leven (München: C. H. Beck, 2005) 397.

Furiani, P. L., “Le ‘Pastorali’ di Longo tra retorica ed erotica,” in Concentus ex dissonis. Scritti in onore di Aldo Setaioli, eds. C. Santini, L. Zurli, L. Cardinali (Naples: Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 2006), I.367–388.

Guida, A., “Precisazioni su alcuni testimoni della fortuna di Caritone,” Prometheus 31 (2005) 137–140.

Hubbard, T. K., “Virgil, Longus, and the Pipes of Pan,” in Brill’s Companion to Greek and Latin Pastoral, eds., M. Fantuzzi, T. Papanghelis (Leiden – Boston: Brill, 2006) 499–514.

Jones, M., “Heavenly and Pandemic Names in Heliodorus’ Aethiopica,” CQ 56.2 (2006) 548–562.

Justman, S., Literature and Human Equality (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 2006) 167 pp. The author includes the chapter “Callirhoe: Equal Protagonists.”

Laplace, M., “Achille Tatios, Leucippé et Clitophon VIII, 6, 7: sur la beauté de Syrinx,” Revue des Études Grecques 119 (2006) 436–439.

Laplace, M., Le roman d’ Achille Tatios. “Discours panégyrique” et imaginaire romanesque (Bern: Peter Lang, 2007) xv + 797 pp.

Loreto Nunez, M., “Fantasie d’ une voix narrative: Héliodore,” in Incontri Triestini di Filologia Classica IV—2004–2005. Atti del convegno internazionale. Phantasia. Il pensiero per immagini degli antichi e dei moderni. Trieste, 28–30 aprile 2005, ed., L. Cristante (Trieste: Edizioni Università di Trieste, 2006) 81–97.

Reeves, B., “The Role of the Ekphrasis in Plot Development: The Painting of Europa and the Bull in Achilles Tatius’ Leucippe and Clitophon,” Mnemosyne 60.1 (2007) 87–101.

Smith, S. D., Greek Identity and the Athenian Past in Chariton: The Romance of Empire (Ancient Narrative. Supplementum 9) (Groningen: Barkhuis and Groningen University Library, 2007) viii + 282 pp.

Stefan, T., “A Textual Note on Xenophon of Ephesus 3.9.4,” CQ 56.2 (2006) 646–648.

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Ammannati, G., “Una nota a Petronio (Sat. 14, 7),” Materiali e discussioni per l’analisi dei testi classici 56 (2006) 207–209.

Baltar, R., “Trimalchio’s Craze for Pseudoetymologies,” in Concentus ex dissonis. Scritti in onore di Aldo Setaioli, eds. C. Santini, L. Zurli, L. Cardinali (Naples: Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 2006), I.75–76.

Battistella, C., “Luxuries verborum come luxuries segetum: per un’ interpretazione di Petr. Sat. 4, 3 ut verba atroci stilo effoderent,” Materiali e discussioni per l’analisi dei testi classici 56 (2006) 199–206.

Beck, R. “Divino quodam stellarum consortium coniunctum. The Astrological Relationship of Lucius to the Priest of Isis as a ‘Chronotopic’ Template for Apuleius, Metamorphoses 11,” in Concentus ex dissonis. Scritti in onore di Aldo Setaioli, eds. C. Santini, L. Zurli, L. Cardinali (Naples: Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 2006), I.85–96.

Booth, J., Maltby, R., Biville, F., What’s in a Name?: The Significance of Proper Names in Classical Latin Literature (Swansea: Classical Press of Wales, 2006) pp. The book contains the essay “Naming the Characters: The Cases of Aristomenes, Socrates and Meroe in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses 1.2–19” by A. Michalopoulos.

Branham, B., “The Poetics of Genre: Bakhtin, Menippus, Petronius,” in Defining Genre and Gender in Latin Literature: Essays Presented to William S. Anderson on his Seventy-Fifth Birthday, eds., W. W. Batstone, G. Tissol (New York: Peter Lang, 2005) 113–138.

Caiazza, I., Lucarini, C. M., “Per l’ esegesi di Petr. Satyr. 39, 12,” Materiali e discussioni per l’analisi dei testi classici 57 (2007) 237–240.

Canali, L., Il tridente latino: Lucrezio, Virgilio, Petronio (Rome: A. Gaffi, 2007) 244 pp.

Conte, G. B., L’autore nascosto: un’interpretazione del Satyricon (Pisa: Edizioni della Normale, 2007) 192 pp.

Cucchiarelli, A., “In difesa degli ‘Omeristi.’ Nota testuale a Petronio, Satyr. 59, 3,” Materiali e discussioni per l’analisi dei testi classici 57 (2007) 241–245.

Drews, F., “Der Sprecherwechsel zwischen Apuleius und Lucius im Prolog der Metamorphosen,” Mnemosyne 59.3 (2006) 403–420.

Duffalo, B., “Ecphrasis and Cultural Identification in Petronius’ Art Gallery,” Word & Image 23.3 (2007) 290–315.

Dürüsken, C., trans., Baskalasimlar: (Altin esek): Latince – Türkçe (Istanbul: Kabalci Yayinevi, 2006) 689 pp.

Elefante, M., Pignataro, C., Aspettando Clio: con Petronio ed Apuleio per Oplonti e Pompei (Castellamare di Stabia [Napoli]: N. Longobardi, 2006) 119 pp.

Giardina, G., “Note al testo di Seneca e Petronio,” in Concentus ex dissonis. Scritti in onore di Aldo Setaioli, eds. C. Santini, L. Zurli, L. Cardinali (Naples: Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 2006), I.313–323.

Graverini, L., “A Booklike Self. Ovid and Apuleius,” Hermathena 177/178 (2004–2005) 225–250.

Graverini, L., Le Metamorfosi di Apuleio. Letteratura e identita (Arti Spazi Scritture. 5 (Pisa: Giardini Editori e Stampatori in Pisa, 2007) x + 260 pp.

Habermehl, P., Petronius, Satyrica 79–141. Ein philologisch-literarischer Kommentar. Bd. 1: Sat. 79–110 (Berlin: de Gruyter, 2006 ) lxxi + 488 pp.

Hamer, E. “Those Damned Geese Again (Petronius 136.4),” CQ 57.1 (2007) 321–323.

Hunink, V., “Dreams in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses,” in Land of Dreams. Greek and Latin Studies in Honour of A. H. M. Kessels, ed., A. P. M. H. Lardinois, M. G. M. van der Poel, V. Hunink (Leiden – Boston: Brill, 2006) 18–31.

Hunink, V. trans., Satyrica (Amsterdam: Athenaeum-Polak & Van Gennep, 2006) 216 pp.

Kortekaas, G. S. A., Commentary on the Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri (Leiden: Brill, 2007) xiv + 935 pp.

May, R., Apuleius and Drama: The Ass on Stage (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006) 379 pp.

Mayer, M., “Viajes, aventuras y desventuras de un hombre con ideas propias: Apuleyo de Madaura,” in Le Vie della Storia. Migrazioni di popoli, viaggi di individui, circolazione di idee nel Mediterraneo antico. Atti del II Incontro Internazionale di Storia Antica (Genova 6–8 ottobre 2004), eds., M. G. Angeli Bertinelli, A. Donati (Roma: Giorgio Bretschneider Editore, 2006) 223–236.

Müller-Reineke, H., “A Greek Miscellanist as a Libidinous Thessalian Witch? Pamphile in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses 2–3,” CQ 56.2 (2006) 648–652.

Nauta, R. R., ed., Desultoria Scientia. Genre in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses and Related Texts (Caeculus: Papers on Mediterranean Archaeology and Greek and Roman Studies. 5) (Leuven: Peeters, 2006) 121 pp. The volume includes these essays:

• Graverini, L., “A lepidus susurrus. Apuleius and the Fascination of Poetry,” 1–18.
• Harrison, S., “Literary Texture in the Adultery-Tales of Apuleius, Metamorphoses Book 9,” 19–31.
• Hunink, V., “Some Cases of Genre Confusion in Apuelius,” 33–42.
• Keulen, W., “The Wet Rituals of the Excluded Mistress: Meroe and the Mime,” 43–61.
• Von Möllendorf, P., “Camels, Celts, and Centaurs. Lucian’s Aesthetic Concept—the charis of the Hybrid,” 63–86.
• Zimmerman, M., “Echoes of Roman Satire in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses,” 87–104.

Osgood, J., “Nuptiae Iure Civili Congruae: Apuleius’ Story of Cupid and Psyche and the Roman Law of Marriage,” TAPA 136.2 (2006) 415–441.

Panayotakis, C., “Petronius, Aristophanes, and MS Chios 313,” in Concentus ex dissonis. Scritti in onore di Aldo Setaioli, eds. C. Santini, L. Zurli, L. Cardinali (Naples: Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 2006), II.491–501.

Panayotakis, S., “The Overseer of Hades: Charon in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses 6,18,6,” in Concentus ex dissonis. Scritti in onore di Aldo Setaioli, eds. C. Santini, L. Zurli, L. Cardinali (Naples: Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 2006), II.503–510.

Paolucci, P., “Voces absonae di Lucio-asino (Apul. Met. VII 3),” in Concentus ex dissonis. Scritti in onore di Aldo Setaioli, eds. C. Santini, L. Zurli, L. Cardinali (Naples: Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, 2006), II.511–530.

Pasetti, L., Plauto in Apuleio (Bologna: Pàtron Editore, 2007) 227 pp.

Pellegrino, C., Jensson, G., “The Recollections of Encolpius. The Satyrica of Petronius as Milesian Fiction,” Gnomon 78.7 (2006) 600–604.

Peri, G., Discorso diretto e discorso indiretto nel Satyricon: due regimi a contrasto (Pisa: Edizioni della Normale, 2007) 132 pp.

Petersen, L. H., The Freedman in Roman Art and Art History (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006) xviii + 294 pp. The author has as her introductory chapter “The Roman Freedman, ‘Freedman Art,’ and Trimalchio” (1–16).

Reitz, C., Die Literatur im Zeitalter Neros (Darmstadt: Wiss. Buchgesellschaft, 2006) viii + 149 pp.

Roberts, D. H., “Petronius and the Vulgar Tongue: Colloquialism, Obscenity, Translation,” Classical and Modern Literature 26.1 (2006) 33–56.

Rochette, B., “Die Übersetzung von Fachbegriffen bei Apuleius,” in Antike Fachtexte, ed., T. Fögen (Berlin – New York: de Gruyter, 2005) 289–317.

Shelton, J., “Putting Women in their Place: Gender, Species, and Hierarchy in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses,” in Defining Genre and Gender in Latin Literature: Essays Presented to William S. Anderson on his Seventy-Fifth Birthday, eds., W. W. Batstone, G. Tissol (New York: Peter Lang, 2005) 301–330.

Trzaskoma, S., “Apuleius, Apologia 15.12–14: ut Stoici rentur?,” Mnemosyne 58 (2005) 583–590.

Waquet, N., Ossola, C., trans., Éros et Psyché (Paris: Payot & Rivages, 2006) 171 pp.

Weinreich, O., Das Gastmahl des Trimalchio. Petronius Arbiter (Frankfurt am Main: Insel-Verlag, 2006) 105 pp.

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Recent Scholarship on the Ancient Novel and Early Jewish and Christian Narrative

Fitzgerald Johnson, S., “Late Antique Narrative Fiction: Apocryphal Acta and the Greek Novel in the Fifth-Century Life and Miracles of Thekla,” in Greek Literature in Late Antiquity: Dynamism, Didacticism, Classicism, ed., S. Fitzgerald Johnson (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006) 189–208.

Levine, A., Allison, D. C., Crossan, J. D., The Historical Jesus in Context (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006) x + 440 pp. The book contains the chapter “Apuleius of Madauros” by I. H. Henderson.

Assman, J., “Periergia: Egyptian Reactions to Greek Curiosity,” in Cultural Borrowings and Ethnic Appropriations in Antiquity (Oriens et Occidens. Studien zu antiken Kulturkontakten und ihrem Nachleben. 8), ed., E. S. Gruen (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2005) 37–50.

Browner, J. The Uncertain Hour: A Novel (New York: Bloomsbury, 2007) 217 pp. This is a fictional account of Petronius and his novel.

Burrus, V., “Mimicking Virgins: Colonial Ambivalence and the Ancient Romance,” Arethusa 38.1 (2005) 49–88.

Elias of Thriplow, Petronius rediuiuus et Helias Tripolanensis: id est Petronius rediuiuus quod Heliae Tripolanensis videtur necnon fragmenta (alia) Heliae Tripolanensis, ed. M. L. Colker (Leiden – Boston: Brill, 2007) viii + 217 pp.

Graf, E. C., Cervantes and Modernity: Four Essays on Don Quijote (Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2007) 222 pp. The book contains the chapter “Don Quijote and Feminism: Cervantes, Apuleius, Zoraida, and Isis.”

Martinez, R., “Apuleian Example and Misogynist Allegory in the Tale of Peronella (Decameron VII.2),” in Boccaccio and Feminist Criticism, eds., T. C. Stillinger, F. R. Psaki (Chapel Hill: Annali d’Italianistica, 2006) 201–216.

Oktapoda-Lu, E., “Amour et Psyché contre Eros et Thanatos: Cet obscur enjeu du désir: Eros et Psyché d’Apulée, Vie et mort de Caravélas de Constantin Théotokis” in Eros, blessures et folie: Détresses du vieillir, ed., A. Montandon (Clermont-Ferrand: PU Blaise Pascal, 2006) 125–137.

Sanguineti, V. R., The Rosetta Stone of the Human Mind: Three Languages to Integrate Neurobiology and Psychology (New York: Springer, 2007) xxvi +163 pp. The author includes the chapter “A ‘Demotic,’ First-Person Language of the Individual and the Social System: Apuleius and the Myth of Psyche” (27–32).

Saunders, C., ed., A Companion to Romance: From Classical to Contemporary (London: Blackwell, 2004) xiii + 565 pp. The paperback edition includes Elizabeth Arnolds’ “Ancient Romances” (10–25).

Sova, D. B., Literature Suppressed on Sexual Grounds (New York: Facts On File, 2006) xviii + 350 pp. Petronius’ book is among the suppressed.

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