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THE ROMANCE BETWEEN GREECE AND THE EAST The contact zones between the Greco-Roman world and the Near Eastarethesubjectofoneofthemostexcitingandfast-movingareas of ancient-world studies. This new collection of essays, by world- renowned experts (and some new voices) in Greco-Roman, Jewish, Egyptian,MesopotamianandPersianliterature,focusesspecificallyon prosefiction,or‘theancientnovel’.Twentychapterseitherofferfresh readings–fromaninterculturalperspective–offamiliartexts(suchas thebiblicalEstherandEcclesiastes,XenophonofEphesus’Ephesian Story,andDictysofCrete’sJournal)orintroducematerialthatmay benewtomanyreaders:fromDemoticEgyptianpapyrithroughold AvestanhymnstoaTurkictranslationoftheLifeofAesop.Thevolume also considers issues of methodology and the history of scholarship on the topic. A concluding section deals with the question of how narratives, patterns and motifs may have come to be transmitted betweencultures. tim whitmarsh is Professor of Ancient Literatures and E. P. Warren Praelector, Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He has published widely on ancient prose fiction, includingNarrativeandIdentityintheAncientGreekNovel:Returning Romance (Cambridge, 2011), and edited The Cambridge Companion to the Greek and Roman Novel (Cambridge, 2008). He is currently writingabookonreligiousscepticisminantiquity. stuart thomson isadoctoralstudentatCorpusChristiCollege intheUniversityofOxford,specializingonClementofAlexandria. THE ROMANCE BETWEEN GREECE AND THE EAST edited by TIM WHITMARSH AND STUART THOMSON UniversityPrintingHouse,CambridgeCB28BS,UnitedKingdom PublishedintheUnitedStatesofAmericabyCambridgeUniversityPress,NewYork CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learningandresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781107038240 (cid:2)c CambridgeUniversityPress2013 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2013 PrintedintheUnitedKingdombyCPIGroupLtd,CroydonCR04YY AcataloguerecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary LibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationdata TheromancebetweenGreeceandtheEast/editedbyTimWhitmarshandStuartThomson. pages cm Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. isbn978-1-107-03824-0(hardback) 1.Greekfiction–Historyandcriticism. 2.Narration(Rhetoric)–History–To1500. 3.Comparativeliterature–GreekandMiddleEastern. 4.Comparativeliterature–MiddleEastern andGreek. 5.Greece–Civilization–MiddleEasterninfluences. I.Whitmarsh,Tim,editorof compilation. II.Thomson,Stuart,editorofcompilation. pa3010.r66 2013 880.09–dc23 2013011404 isbn978-1-107-03824-0Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracyof urlsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication, anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. Contents Notesoncontributors pageviii Acknowledgements xiii Abbreviations xiv 1 TheromancebetweenGreeceandtheEast 1 TimWhitmarsh part i: egyptians 2 GreekfictionandEgyptianfiction:aretheyrelated,and,ifso, how? 23 IanRutherford 3 Manetho 38 JohnDillery 4 ImitatioAlexandriinEgyptianliterarytradition 59 KimRyholt 5 Divineangermanagement:theGreekversionoftheMythof theSun’sEye(P.Lond.Lit.192) 79 StephanieWest 6 Fictionsofculturalauthority 91 SusanStephens part ii: mesopotamians and iranians 7 Berossus 105 JohannesHaubold v vi Contents 8 TheGreeknovelNinusandSemiramis:itsbackgroundin AssyrianandSeleucidhistoryandmonuments 117 StephanieDalley 9 Ctesias,theAchaemenidcourt,andthehistoryoftheGreek novel 127 JosefWieseho¨fer 10 IskanderandtheideaofIran 142 DanielL.Selden part iii: jews and phoenicians 11 Josephus’EstheranddiasporaJudaism 165 EmilyKneebone 12 TheeasternkingintheHebrewBible:novelisticmotifsinearly Jewishliterature 183 JennieBarbour 13 Lostintranslation:thePhoenicianJournalofDictysofCrete 196 KarenN´ıMheallaigh 14 MilesiaePunicae:howPunicwasApuleius? 211 StephenHarrison part iv: anatolians 15 ThevictoryofGreekIoniainXenophon’sEphesiaca 225 AldoTagliabue 16 ‘Milesiantales’ 243 EwenBowie part v: transmission and reception 17 Doestrivialitytranslate?TheLifeofAesoptravelsEast 261 PavlosAvlamis 18 Mimeandtheromance 285 RuthWebb Contents vii 19 Orality,folktalesandthecross-culturaltransmissionof narrative 300 LawrenceKim 20 History,empireandthenovel:Pierre-DanielHuetandthe originsoftheromance 322 PhirozeVasunia References 336 Index 391 Notes on contributors pavlos avlamis received his doctorate in Classics from Princeton Uni- versity and is currently Lecturer in Classics at Trinity College, Oxford. Theauthorofarticlesonancientpopularliterature,heiscompletinga bookmanuscriptonTheCity,thePopular,andtheEverydayinImperial GreekLiterature. jenniebarbourisAssistantProfessorofOldTestamentatDukeDivinity School;shewaspreviouslyKennicottFellowinHebrewatOxfordand CollegeFellowinNearEasternLanguagesandCivilizationsatHarvard. Herbook,TheStoryofIsraelintheBookofQohelet:EcclesiastesasCultural Memory,waspublishedbyOxfordUniversityPressin2012. ewenbowiewasPraelectorinClassicsatCorpusChristiCollege,Oxford, from 1965 to 2007, and successively University Lecturer, Reader and Professor of Classical Languages and Literature in the University of Oxford. He is now an Emeritus Fellow of Corpus Christi College. He has published articles on early Greek elegiac, iambic and lyric poetry; on Aristophanes; on Hellenistic poetry; and on many aspects of Greek literature and culture from the first century bce to the third century ce,includingPlutarchandtheGreeknovels.Herecentlyedited(jointly with Ja´s Elsner) a collection of papers on Philostratus (Cambridge, 2009)and(jointlywithLuciaAthanassaki)acollectionofpapersentitled Archaic and Classical Choral Song (2011) and is currently completing a commentary on Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe for Cambridge University Press. stephanie dalleyisanAssyriologistattheOrientalInstitute,University of Oxford. She has published editions of cuneiform texts from various excavations and collections, as well as more general works including Myths from Mesopotamia (1998) and Esther’s Revenge at Susa (2007); andhaseditedTheLegacyofMesopotamia(2006).Herlatestwork,The viii
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