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Intende,Lector–EchoesofMyth,ReligionandRitual intheAncientNovel MythosEikonPoiesis Herausgegebenvon RogerBeck Wissenschaftlicher Beirat: GregoryNagy,RichardMartin Band 6 – Intende, Lector Echoes of Myth, Religion and Ritual in the Ancient Novel Editedby MaríliaP.FutrePinheiro,AntonBierl andRogerBeck isbn978-3-11-031181-5 e-isbn978-3-11-031190-7 issn1868-5080 LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData ACIPcatalogrecordforthisbookhasbeenappliedforattheLibraryofCongress. BibliografischeInformationderDeutschenNationalbibliothek DieDeutscheNationalbibliothekverzeichnetdiesePublikationinderDeutschen Nationalbibliografie;detailliertebibliografischeDatensindimInternetüber http://dnb.d-nb.deabrufbar. ©2013WalterdeGruyterGmbH,Berlin/Boston Satz:jürgenullrichtyposatz,Nördlingen DruckundBindung:Hubert&Co.GmbH&Co.KG,Göttingen ♾GedrucktaufsäurefreiemPapier PrintedinGermany www.degruyter.com Editors’ Preface and Acknowledgements Thiscollectionpresentsaselectionoffourteenpapersandsevencontributionsto aRoundtableoriginallypresentedattheFourthInternationalConferenceonthe AncientNovel(ICANIV),whichwasheldattheFundaçãoCalousteGulbenkian, in Lisbon, from 21–26 July 2008. In particular, the volume explores the connec- tionsbetweenmyth,religionandritualontheonehandandtheancientnovelon theother.Despitetherecentandintensifiedscholarlyinterestinthefieldofmyth and ritual, inquiry into major shifts in mythical and ritual poetics is still in a preliminarystage.Theessaysinthiscollectionadvanceourunderstandingcon- siderablyastheyprobetheintersectionsofmythandritualwiththeplotsofthe novels.Topicsincludesuchissuessuchaspoeticsandintertextuality;myth,rite and magic; rites of passage, gendered ambiguities and transgression; morality and religiosity; narrative, folktale and performance. Despite the variety of texts examined, one common purpose is the effort to question the assumption that myth and ritual are a mere underlying religious basis, and to focus instead on howtheyinfluenceandshapetheplotofthenovel. Firstofall,Marília FutrePinheirotakestheopportunitytoexpressherutmost gratitude to her fellow editors, Anton Bierl and Roger Beck, for their accurate readingandeditingofthepapers,andfortheirfriendly,collegialandcontinuous supportduringthelongprocessofpreparingthisvolume.Specialthanksarealso due to our conference sponsors. In the impossibility of naming them all, we thank, inthe personof the President of the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Dr. RuiVilar,allthosewhocontributedtomakingICAN2008asuccess. Ateamofkey-notespeakersofICANIVtogetherwithMaríliaFutrePinheiro was responsible for the selection of the contributions to the different themes. Consequently, all articles assembled in this volume were already carefully re- viewedbeforetheyweredeliveredinLisbonin2008. Aftertheconference,MaríliaFutrePinheiropickedAntonBierlasco-editorof theareaMyth,RitualandReligion.SoonafterwardsbothdecidedtocooptRoger Beck.MaríliaFutrePinheiroandRogerBecktogetherwithAntonBierlchosethe selectionofthearticlesforthisvolume. MaríliaFutrePinheiroandRogerBeck,incorrespondencewiththeauthors, madenumeroussuggestionsforimprovementsandcuts.Theywishtothankthe authorsfortheirpatienceandcooperation. After the conference, Marília Futre Pinheiro picked Anton Bierl as co-editor of the area Myth, Ritual and Religion. Soon afterwards both decided to coopt Roger Beck. Marília Futre Pinheiro and Roger Beck together with Anton Bierl made the selection of the articles for this volume. In correspondence with the authors, they made numerous suggestions for improvements and cuts. They VI Editors’PrefaceandAcknowledgements wish to express their thanks to the authors for their patience, cooperation and carefulreviewing. ThanksarealsoduetoAlisonSmith,whofurthereditedtheEnglishbothof AntonBierl’sRoundtableandofhisothercontributiontothevolume,aswellas toAnn-KathrinStähleandAustinDiaz,bothstudentassistantsofAntonBierlin Basel, who carefully read the manuscript for style, especially in the bibliogra- phies, and for the English, again respectively. We further thank Katharina Le- gutke,ProjectEditorClassicalandAncientNearEasternStudiesatdeGruyter,for supportingthepublicationprocess,aswellasMr.FlorianRuppensteinforprodu- cingthisvolume. Lastbutnotleast,MaríliaFutrePinheiroandRogerBeckwishtothanktheir fellow editor, Anton Bierl, for kindly volunteering to publish this work in his seriesMythosEikonPoiesis. MaríliaP.FutrePinheiro AntonBierl RogerBeck Contents AntonBierl Introduction 1 RoundtableMythandtheNovel AntonBierl MythandtheNovel:IntroductoryRemarksandCommentsontheRoundtable Discussion 7 JanN.Bremmer MythintheNovel:SomeObservations 17 EdmundCueva TheLiteraryMythintheNovel 24 MaríliaP.FutrePinheiro MythsintheNovel:Gender,ViolenceandPower 28 FritzGraf NovelandMythology–ContributiontoaRoundTable 36 TimWhitmarsh GreekNovelandLocalMyth 39 MaaikeZimmerman MythicalRepertoireandItsFunctionsinApuleius’Metamorphoses 43 Storyline,PoeticsandReligion EmilioSuárezdelaTorreandEnriquePérezBenito Love,MysteriesandLiteraryTradition:NewExperiencesandOldFrames 51 AglaeMassimaValeriaPizzone TheTaleofaDream:OneirosandMythosintheGreekNovel 67 VIII TableofContents AntonBierl FromMysterytoInitiation:AMytho-RitualPoeticsofLoveandSexintheAncient Novel–eveninApuleius’GoldenAss? 82 GiovanniSolinas FromtheLegendofCupidandPsychetotheNovelofMélusine:Myth,Noveland TwentiethCenturyAdaptations 100 ApuleiusandCupidandPsyche:Anthropological,ChristianandPhilosophical Perspectives JoannaAtkin PuellaVirgo:RitesofPassageinApuleius’Metamorphoses 111 ChiaraO.TommasiMoreschini GnosticVariationsontheTaleofCupidandPsyche 123 IlariaL.E.Ramelli ApuleiusandChristianity:TheNovelist-PhilosopherinfrontofaNew Religion 145 Ritual,MythandIntertextuality SoniaSabnis DonkeyGonetoHell:AKatabasisMotifinApuleius’Metamorphoses 177 AnnaLefteratou IphigeniaRevisited:Heliodorus’Aethiopicaandthe‘DerTodunddasMädchen’ Pattern 200 PaoloMonella ‘Nonhumanaviscerasedcentiessestertiumcomesse’(Petr.Sat.141,7): PhilomelaandtheCannibalHeredipetaeintheCrotonianSectionofPetronius’ Satyricon 223 TableofContents IX ReligiousImagery,Cult,MysteryandArt MikeLippman FalseFortuna:ReligiousImageryandthePainting-GalleryEpisodeinthe Satyricon 239 MariaS.Kasyan TheBeesofArtemisEphesiaandtheApocalypticSceneinJosephand Aseneth 251 Magic,ComicReversalandHealing R.DrewGriffith ShamansandCharlatans:Magic,Mixups,LiteraryMemoryinApuleius’Golden AssBook3 271 MaxNelson Lucius’sRose:SymbolicorSympatheticCure? 284 GeneralIndex 295 Indexlocorum 307 AbouttheAuthors 315
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