Conferences

American Academy of Religion/Society of Biblical Literature, Washington, DC, November 18–21, 2006
     Ancient Fiction and Early Christian and Jewish Narrative
     Theme: Narrative Negotiations of Cultural and Political Values

• Armstrong, G. E., “Leopards and Vipers and Demons, Oh My! Fantastic Landscape and the Narrative Setting of Acts of Philip.”
• Elliott, S. S., “‘A Novel Dama to Undo Me:’ Characters and Discourse in Achilles Tatius.”
• Perkins, J. B., “The Greek Romance Hero: An Elite Imperial Masculinity.”
• Watson, D. F., “Narrative Bludgeons: The Clash of Values in the Life of Aesop and the Gospel of Mark.”
• Varhelyi, Z., “Subverting Narrative Qualities in Second-Century Retellings of ‘Pagan’ Myths.”

     Theme: Ancient Fiction and Luke/Acts

• Arterbury, A., “The Case for the Custom of Hospitality in Ancient Narratives.”
• Borgman, P., “Self-Transformation and Communal Good: Genesis, David, Luke-Acts–and Homer.”
• Dupertuis, R. R., “Piety and Authority: The Philosophers’ Parresia and the Trial Scenes in Acts.”
• Fischer, B., “Dialogic Use of Zechariah 3 and 6 in the Gospel of Luke: Joshua and the Branch.”
• Shea, C., “Falling for Paul (Acts 20:5–12): Imitation and the Politics of Leadership.”

 American Philological Association, San Diego, California, January 4–7, 2007

• Anderson, M. J., “Sentimentality in the Greek Novels.”
• Bay, S. M., “A Reassessment of the Genre of Lollianus’Phoenicica.”
• Marchesi, I., “Trimalchio’s Zodiac Plate and the Art of Memory.”
• Ornella Rossi, O. “Eumolpus the Anti-Seneca: Possible Interpretations of Petronius, Satyricon 99.1.”
• Smith, S. D., “The Empire’s New Clothes: Identity and Costume in Two Greek Novels.”
• Trzaskoma, S. M., “An Unnoticed Citation of Xenophon’s Cyropaedia in Chariton.”

“The Ancient Novel and its Reception of Earlier Literature,”A KYKNOS Conference at University College Cork, Ireland, August 29–31, 2007

• De Temmerman, K., “Where Philosophy and Rhetoric Meet: Character Typification in the Greek Novel.”
• Doulamis, K. “Forensic Oratory and Rhetorical Theory in Chariton.”
• Koulakiotis, E., “The Rhetoric of Otherness: Alexander’s Letter About India and the Alexander Romance.”
• Morgan, J., “Philetas and Longus.”
• O’Brien, M. “Writing the Pale Imitation: The Story of Meroe and Socrates in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses 1. 1–19.”
• Oikonomou, M., “Only Dreaming…Anthia’s Dream in the Ephesiaka.”
• Panayotakis, C., “Petronius’ Iambics on the Condemnation of Luxury (Sat. 55.5–6).”
• Paschalis, M., “Petronius and Virgil: Readings and Contexts.”
• Repath, I., “Platonic Love and Erotic Ignorance in Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe.”
• Whitmarsh, T., “Novelists Cite Novelists.”

“The City and the University,” The Classical Association Annual Conference, University of Birmingham, April 12–15, 2007

• Bazovsky, G., “Pan’s Miracle in Daphnis and Chloe.”
• Gilmore, H., “Callirhoe’s Homeric Influences.”
• Jones, M., “Cocks and Hens, Billies and Nannies: Paederasty and Masculinity in Xenophon of Ephesos and Longus.” 
• Loreto Núñez, M., “Arrêter le rythme pour raconter une histoire: l’enchâssement embryonnaire chez Xénophon d’Éphèse.”
• Sapsford, F., “What’s in a Name? Petronius’ Satyrica and the Misconceptions of Translation.”
• Shumate, N., “Petronius and Post-modernism

Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Cincinnati, Ohio, April 11–14, 2007

• Alvares, J., “The Charite Episode and Lucius.”
• Carlisle, D. C., “Authoritative and Explanatory Dreams in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses.”
• Goldman, M. L., “Becoming Cleitophon: Mimesis and the Reader in Achilles Tatius.”
• Park, A., “The Pastoral Parents of Daphnis and Chloe.”
• Peterson, A., “Fishing for a Laugh: Lucian’s Fisherman and its Relationship to Aristophanic Comedy.”
• Vergados, A., “Lucian’s Epistolary Symposiast (Symposion or The Lapiths, 22–7).”

Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Southern Section, Memphis, Tennessee, November 2–4, 2006

• McCoy, M. B., “Contesting Roman Manhood in Petronius’ Satyrica.”

“Narratology and Interpretation: The Content Of The Form In Ancient Texts,” Thessaloniki, 6–8 December 2007
Panel: Narratology and the Interpretation of Historiography and Novel

• Frangoulidis, F., “The Isis Book (11) as a Rewriting of Apuleius’ Metamorphoses 1–10.”

Princeton University, Classics Department Lecture Series, November 17, 2005

• Obbink, D., “The Recovery of Lost Books from Aristotle to Eco: A New Greek Ass-Novel.”

“Readers and Writers in the Ancient Novel,” Conference at Rethymno, May 20–22, 2007

• Bernsdorff, H., “Writing and Speaking in The Incredible Things Beyond Thule of Antonius Diogenes.”
• Bowie, E., “Bookishness, Long and Short: Antonius Diogenes and Longus.”
• Braginskaya, N., “To Read, or Not to Read, that is the Question: Galactio and Episteme.”
• Dowden, K., “Reading Diktys: The Discreet Charm of Bogosity.”
• Fletcher, R., “The Task of the Translator in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses.”
• Frangoulidis, S., “Listener/Reader and Author in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses: Lucius’ and Milo’s Tales of Diophanes and Asinius’ Prophecy.”
• Futre Pinheiro, M., “Conversations between Readers and Writers in the Ancient Novel: A Modern Debate.”
• Graverini, L., Keulen, W., “Phaedrus, Apuleius, and their Readers.”
• Guez, J-Ph., “To Analyze and to Marvel: Reading Attitudes in Philostratus Life of Apollonius.”
• Harrison, S., “Apuleius as Reader and Re-writer of Homer’s Iliad in the Metamorphoses.”
• Hunink, V., “Hating Homer, Fighting Vergil: Literary Criticism in a Late Latin Ego-tale.”
• Hunter, R., “The Curious Incident…polupragmosune and the Ancient Novel.
• Konstan, D., “The Active Reader and the Ancient Novel.”
• Morgan, J., “Photios and Others Reading Antonius Diogenes Reading Antiphanes.”
• Nimis, S., “The Prosaics of Voice and Writing.”
• Panayotakis, S., “The Library of Apollonius, Prince of Tyre.”
• Paschalis, M., “Seneca’s Apocolocyntosis and Petronius’ Satyrica.”
• Roilos, P., “Ancient Novelists and Byzantine Readers.”
• Schmeling, G., “Encolpius’ Readers or Petronius’ Audience? A Case for Satyrica 132.15.”
• Slater, W., “Reading Inscription in the Ancient Novel.”
• Smith, W., “Eumolpus the Poet.”
• Stoneman, R., “The Author of the Alexander Romance.”
• Whitmarsh, T., “Divide and Rule: Books and Narrative Space in the Greek Novel.”
• Zimmerman, M., “Food for Thought for the Reader of Apuleius’ Metamorphoses.”

“Sanctified Violence in Ancient Mediterranean Religions: Discourse, Ritual, Community Conference,” Saint Paul, Minnesota, October 6–8, 2007

• Frilingos, C., “Random Acts of Violence: Ironic Brutality in Jewish, Christian, and Pagan Narrative.”

Sixth E. Togo Salmon Conference in Roman Studies: “Roman Slavery & Roman Material Culture,” McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, September 28–29, 2007

• Bradley, K., “Apuleius and the Sub-Saharan Slave Trade.”

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Announcements

Dr. Helen Perdicoyianni-Paleologou notes that her website on the bibliography of Greek and Latin medical language, which is already on line at the Medical School of Paris, contains some articles and books that might be of interest to folks intersted in the ancient novels. The address is www.bium.univ-paris5.fr/amn.

James N. O’Sullivan is—among other projects—working towards an edition of Achilles Tatius.

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Petroniana for sale

A non-commercial, previous collector of Petronius editions and secondary literature in Amsterdam offers the items below for sale. If you are interested and would care to place a bid, please contact alexandersmarius@hotmail.com. The titles are listed in chronological order, when possible with the catalogue numbers taken from ‘A Bibliography of Petronius’ by Gareth L. Schmeling and Johanna H. Stuckey (Leiden, 1977), abbreviated as ‘S&S’.

1. La Satyre de Petrone, Traduite en François avec le Texte Latin, Suivant le nouveau manuscrit Trouvé à Bellegrade en 1688. Cologne, Pierre Groth, MDCXCIV (1694). S&S nr. 438. Two volumes in one, 416 and 454 p., with frontispiece of vol. 1 and 9 plates, frontispiece of vol. 2 removed, parchment cover, excellent condition. Edition with Latin text and French translation of the Satyricon with the forged additions by François Nodot.
2. Titi Petronii Arbitri Satyricon quae supersunt, ed. P. Burman, Utrecht 1709. S&S nr. 96. Parchment cover, paper with guilt edges, some notes in ink predating the 20th century, no damage whatsoever. Photographs available.
3. T. Petronii Arbitri, equitis Romani, Satiricon, cum supplementis Nodotianis. Ed. Bipontine Society. Zweibrücken, 1790. S&S nr. 112. Latin text of Petronius and Nodot’s supplements in one well preserved volume with Lucan.
4. Fragmentum Petronii by José Marchena. Not the real thing, unfortunately, but photocopies of rare and hard-to-find documents relevant for study of text, history, deception and demystification of this minor Petronian forgery. This collection, compiled from several University libraries throughout Europe, contains copies of the first edition (S&S nr. 391), all later editions (among them S&S nr. 408, 500, 534/535 and 686), contemporary reviews (e.g. in the Jena periodical and by Schoell), later literary criticism and other historical documents.
5. OEuvres Complètes de Pétrone. Avec la Traduction Française par M. Héguin de Guerle. Paris, 1861. S&S nr. 404. French translation with the Latin text of Petronius and Nodot. Restored with new hard cover.
6. Petronii Satirae et Liber Priapeorum, tertium edidit Franciscus Buecheler. Berlin, 1882. S&S nr. 134. Buecheler’s editio minor with some pencil markings.
7. Albert Collignon, Pétrone en France, Paris 1905. S&S nr. 1000. Disintegrating but still handable.
8. The Satyricon of T. Petronius Arbiter, Burnaby’s Translation 1694, With an Introduction by C.K. Scott Moncrieff. Undated, The Abbey Classics, published by Simpkin Marshall, London and Aylesbury. S&S nr. 306, not seen by the authors of the Bibliography. Blue hard cover with golden letters on the back.
9. Petronius, Begebenheiten des Enkolp. Uebertragung von Wilhelm Heinse. Berlin 1928. S&S nr. 540. Petronius and Nodot in German translation.
10. Petronius, The Satyricon, translated by William Arrowsmith, 1959 a. hard cover, third printing November 1959, S&S nr. 346. b. as a Mentor classic pocket, S&S nr. 348.
11. J.P. Sullivan, The Satyricon of Petronius, A Literary Study, London 1968. S&S nr. 1877.
12. Satyricon translated by Paul Gilette, London 1970. S&S nr. 363. Not only a translation but also a ‘complete and uncensored reconstruction…with photographs from the film created by Fellini.’
13. Gareth L. Schmeling and Johanna H. Stuckey, A Bibliography of Petronius, Leiden, 1977.
14. Petronius Satyrica/Schelmenszenen. Lateinisch-Deutsch von Konrad Müller und Wilhelm Ehlers. München 1983. Mühler’s third edition of Petronius’ text with German translation in the Tusculum series.
15. Walter Stolz, Petrons Satyricon und François Nodot. Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte literarischer Fälschungen, Stuttgart 1987.
16. Petron Satyricon. Ein römischer Schelmenroman, übersetzt von Harry C. Schnur, Stuttgart 1988. A reprint of S&S nr. 558. German translation of Petronius and Nodot in the Reclam series.

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Forthcoming Books

Clark, D. G., C. S. Lewis: A Guide to his Theology (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2007) 200 pp. Chapter five, “Walking by Faith” (70–78) includes these two subdivisions “The Myth of Cupid and Psyche According to Apuleius” and “The Myth According to Lewis.”

Kirchenko, A., Apuleius’ Golden Ass: A Comedy of Storytelling (Heidelberg: Bibliothek der klassischen Altertumswissenschaften).

Relihan, J. C., trans., The Golden Ass, or, A Book of Changes (Indianapolis: Hackett, 2007) 320 pp.

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APA Newsletter Reports Dissertations

Kirichenko, A., Apuleius’ Golden Ass: A Comedy of Storytelling. (Harvard University) under R. Thomas.

Sabnis, S. A., Storytelling Slaves and Narrative Resistance in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses. (University of California, Berkeley) under R. Hexter.

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