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ANCIENT GREEK NOVELS THE FRAGMENTS Ancient Greek Novels The Fragments INTRODUCTION, TEXT, TRANSLATION, AND COMMENTARY EDITED BY Susan A. Stephens and John J. Winkler PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY Copyright © 1995 by Princeton University Press Published by Princeton University Press, 41 William Street, Princeton, NewJersey 08540 In the United Kingdom: Princeton University Press, Chichester, West Sussex All Rights Reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Pubhcation Data Ancient Greek novels : the fragments : introduction, text, translation, and commentary / edited by Susan A. Stephens and John J. Winkler. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-691-06941-7 (acid-free paper) 1. Greek fiction—Translations into English. 2. Lost literature— Greece—Translations into English. 3. Lost literature—Greece— History and criticism. 4. Greek fiction—History and criticism. 5. Lost literature—Greece. 6. Greek fiction. I. Stephens, Susan Α. II. Winkler, John J. PA3632.A53 1994 883'.0108—dc20 92-23526 This book has been composed in Adobe Sabon Princeton University Press books are printed on acid-free paper and meet the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on Production Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources Printed in the United States of America 2 4 6 8 1 0 9 7 5 3 1 For Cathy and Mark CONTENTS PREFACE IX LIST OF PAPYRI XIIl ABBREVIATIONS XV General Introduction 3 Part I: Novel Fragments Ninos 23 Mettochos and Parthenope 72 Metiochos and Parthenope ? 95 Antonius Diogenes: The Incredible Things beyond Thule 101 Testimonia 120 Book Fragments 130 Papyri 148 Antonius Diogenes? 158 The Love Drug 173 Iamblichos: Babyloniaka 179 Testimonia 190 Fragments Assignable to Sections of Photios's Epitome 200 Large Fragments 222 Unplaced Fragments 242 Doubtful Fragments 243 Sesonchosis 246 Kalligone 267 Antheia and a Cast of Thousands 277 Chione 289 Chione? 303 Lollianos: Phoimkika 314 vn CONTENTS Iolaos 358 Daulis 375 PART II: AMBIGUOUS FRAGMENTS Apollonios 391 Tinouphis 400 The Apparition 409 Goatherd and the Palace Guards 416 Nightmare or Necromancy? 422 Staphulos 429 Theano 438 The Festival 444 Inundation 451 Initiation 461 APPENDIXES A. Also Known as Romance 469 B. Testimonia 473 C. ChartofProvenancesandDates 479 BIBLIOGRAPHY 483 INDEX OF PASSAGES CITED 505 INDEX OF PROPER NAMES FROM THE FRAGMENTS AND TESTIMONIA 520 GENERAL INDEX 525 PREFACE Within the last decade, the discovery of new fragments, like Lollianos, Iolaos, and Metiochos and Parthenope, has dramatically increased our library catalogue of ancient novels, altering our sense of its contents and proportions, and calling for a fresh survey of the field. The last edition of novel fragments, that of Franz Zimmermann in 1936, is now hopelessly out of date. This alone was sufficient reason to undertake such a project. We also shared an interest in the postclassical world, and further, we possessed skills that complemented each other. Deciding on the project was the easy part. Choosing what to print was more complex. We settled on all the fragments of the identifiable novels, including the fragments and epitomes of Iamblichos and An- tonius Diogenes. After examining all adespota among the literary papyri published as "romance," "history," "oratory," "mimes," "mythography and religion," and "unidentified prose," we added a number of pieces that seem to have novellike narratives, but are too small to label with authority. There are two exceptions: we have omitted Diktys of Krete and all material associated with Alexander and the Alexander Romance, the latter because of the vastness of the material, the former because its Latin version raises unique problems, more suitably dealt with in a sep­ arate publication. We do not print all fragments identified as "romance" by their original editors, only those with sufficient text for us to be confident that they are more likely to belong to prose fiction than to any other genre. For a full list of fragments originally published as "romance," see Appendix A. This book is intended to combine two normally exclusive modes of scholarship: the edition of texts, and literary interpretation. We wished to make this material available for the nonspecialist and the non-Greek reader, as well as to provide adequate and easily accessible texts. Intro­ ductions situate each text within the field of ancient fiction and present relevant background material, possible lines of interpretation, and literary parallels. Reconstructions of texts are deliberately conservative, to correct the habit of exuberant supplementation that colors much pre­ vious work. The texts themselves are printed in standard Greek; errors, spelling aberrations, and editorial marking of the original manuscripts

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The recent discovery of fragments from such novels as Iolaos, Phoinikika, Sesonchosis, and Metiochos and Parthenope has dramatically increased the library catalogue of ancient novels, calling for a fresh survey of the field. In this volume Susan Stephens and John Winkler have reedited all of the ide
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