26 research outputs found
TEXTUAL NOTES ON ACHILLES TATIUS
No full textThis paper contributes to the textual criticism of Achilles Tatius' novel Leucippe and Clitophon by proposing a number of alterations to the text of the most recent edition of the complete novel (Les Belles Lettres) (Paris, 1991). Copyright © 2022 The Author(s)
Self-reflexivity and metafiction in Achilles Tatius' Leukippe and Kleitophon
No full textThis thesis examines the self-reflexive and metafictional aspects of Achilles Tatius’ Leukippe and Kleitophon. The aim is to map this self-reflexivity by examining the intricacy of its narrative structure, revealing the self-consciousness of the text, and thereby comment on the visibility of the author. Achilles Tatius is a notably difficult text. It presents a narrative of complexity, while appearing superficial. Scholars have recognised this complexity, but have yet to produce a clear analysis of how the text functions as a complete work. Through the discourse provided by the theory of ‘metafiction’, this complexity is able to be diagnosed and explored to its completion. It is only through the totality of the text that a complete understanding of Achilles’ novel becomes possible. In examining the text by book-pairs, a comprehensive and intelligent structure emerges, revealing a highly conscious text through its awareness of its own fictive structure. The consequence of providing a comprehensive analysis is that many of these insights cannot be explored to the extent they deserve, as more research remains to be done. The conclusion of the thesis will provide a larger understanding of how thes
The Spell of Achilles Tatius: Magic and Metafiction in Leucippe and Clitophon
No full textIn this article I examine the complex role of magic in Achilles Tatius’ Leucippe and Clitophon and argue that Achilles discredits magic as supernaturally powerful by depicting magical practices as ineffectual, resulting in unintended consequences, or as the basis for dramatic, narrative, or rhetorical manipulation and deception. I further suggest that by doing so Achilles transfers the world-changing powers of magic to persuasive language, thus opening the door for a metaliterary reading in which the author asserts that the most potent “magic” is sophistic rhetoric and he himself the foremost “magician.”Ashli J. E. Baker is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. Her research specialties include the ancient novel - particularly Apuleius’Metamorphoses and Achilles Tatius’ Leucippe and Clitophon - and ancient magic. She is also interested in Roman Imperial literature more generally, especially the work of Ovid and Lucian. She is currently working on a monograph about Apuleius’ Metamorphoses, Florida, and Apology
Decoding the Erōtes : reception of Achilles Tatius and the modernity of the Greek novel
No full textThis article reconfigures the Lucianic Erōtes as an outstanding testimony to the early reception of Achilles Tatius’ Leucippe and Clitophon, predating all other early examples of sophisticated readership. The analysis demonstrates the author’s extensive remodelling of the novelist’s technique of proleptic ekphrasis, and uses it to tease out the literary implications, so far undetected, of the characters’ debate on sex preferences. By proposing an evolutionary theory of imitation and putting it into practice, the author inserted the novel in literary history
Euanthes and the World of Rhetoric in Achilles Tatius’ Leucippe and Cleitophon
No full textWithin Leucippe and Cleitophon, Achilles Tatius inserts three extremely detailed ekphraseis of paintings, all of which stand out amongst the many other descriptive passages in the novel. This paper explores the rhetorical background of the author’s use of ekphrasis, and focuses in particular on the artist ‘Euanthes’ who is named at 3,6,3 as the painter of the images of Andromeda and Prometheus. It seeks to prove that Euanthes is entirely a construction of the author and that the name is representative of the world of rhetoric prominent in much of the literature of the 2nd Century AD. The rhetorical nature of the other ekphraseis of paintings in Leucippe and Cleitophon is also explored in order to support the interpretation of Euanthes as being part of an author’s in-joke with his educated readers
Who\u27s the Woman on the Bull?: Achilles Tatius 1,4,3
No full textIn sections 1,1,2–13 of his Leucippe and Clitophon Achilles Tatius has the unidentified author of the novel describe a painting on which is depicted synoptically the story of Europa. The passage begins with ὁρῶ γραφὴν ἀνα-κειμένην γῆς ἅμα καὶ θαλάσσης, Εὐρώπης ἡ γραφή (‘I saw a picture hanging up which was a landscape and a seascape in one. The painting was of Europa’). In section 1,4,2–3 the hero of the novel, Clitophon, relates to the unidentified author that he once fell in love at first sight with a maiden whom he describes as follows: ὡς δὲ ἐπέτεινα τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς ἐπ᾿ αὐτήν, ἐν ἀριστερᾷ παρθένος ἐκφαίνεταί μοι, καὶ καταστράπεται μου τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς τῷ προσώπῳ. τοιαύτην εἶδον ἐγώ ποτε ἐπὶ ταύρῳ γεγραμμένην Εὐρώπην. The phrase τοιαύτην εἶδον ἐγώ ποτε ἐπὶ ταύρῳ γεγραμμένην Εὐρώπην is the focus of this essay, in particular the word Εὐρώπην, since some manuscripts, translations, and commentaries show a different reading (Σελήνην). The parallel between the drawing in 1,1,2–13 and the simile in 1,4,3 would make sense, since the narrative includes references to two women astride bulls. The problems that I address in this paper are 1) the discrepancy between the manuscripts, all but one of which have Σελήνην instead of Εὐρώπην, and 2) the choices made by the translators of the novel, who are almost evenly divided in their preference for Σελήνην or Εὐρώπην. The resolution to the variant readings is found in a close examination of the character of the heroine, Leucippe, who undergoes a transformation from a normal individual in the beginning of the novel to a witch, or follower of Selene, by the end of the story.Edmund P. Cueva is an Associate Professor of Classics at XavierUniversityin Cincinnati, Ohio. His research interests include the ancient novel and classical mythology. He is managing co-editor of The Classical Bulletin and the incoming editor of The Petronian Society Newsletter
Kleitophon and Encolpius: Achilleus Tatius as Hidden Author
No full textThis paper explores the possibility of applying to the novel of Achilles Tatius the methodology employed on the Satyrica by G.B. Conte, arguing that there is a ‘hidden author’ behind the narrator Kleitophon, who communicates with the reader through a series of oblique narrative strategies. Kleitophon is represented as constructing an approved version of himself through the performance and sophistic display of his narrative, which is at variance with the reality which the author allows us to glimpse. Like Encolpius, Kleitophon imposes literature on life, rewriting experience to accommodate it to the patterns and ethos of romantic fiction.John Morgan is Professor of Greek at the University of Wales Swansea, where he is Leader of the KYKNOS Research Group on Ancient Narrative Literature. He has published extensively on the Greek novels, particularly those of Heliodoros and Longus; his commentary on Daphnis and Chloe in the Aris & Phillips Classical Texts series appeared in 2004. He is currently working on an edition of Heliodoros for the Loeb Classical Library, as well as monographs on Heliodoros and Longus
Egy antik regényíró: Achilleus Tatios és a Kleitophón és Leukippé története
No full textAfter introducing the novel The Adventures of Leucippe and Clitophon by Achilles Tatius, the ancient novelist who is not well known in Hungary, the author analyses the most important critical remarks that have come up in the international essays referring to the novel. Eventually this essay offers a new solution to the very special problem of why the narrative frame is missing at the end, after Tatius started his novel using a framed structure.After introducing the novel The Adventures of Leucippe and Clitophon by Achilles Tatius, the ancient novelist who is not well known in Hungary, the author analyses the most important critical remarks that have come up in the international essays referring to the novel. Eventually this essay offers a new solution to the very special problem of why the narrative frame is missing at the end, after Tatius started his novel using a framed structure
(Im)mobility and Environmental Change in the Coastal Sinking Cities of Java, Indonesia
No full textEnvironmental degradation induced by climate change disturbs livelihoods and is, therefore, a critical issue in policy and academic discourses on immobility. This paper aims to investigate experiences of immobility in three coastal areas within Indonesian cities of varying adaptive capacities, with a focus on women who represent vulnerable people whose role can be attributed to policies and governance. We adopted a qualitative methodological approach, combining ethnography and utilizing in-depth interviews with a total of 60 respondents, and roundtable discussions representing various stakeholders. Three locations, i.e., Muara Angke, Tambak Lorok, Panjang Wetan, were selected because the residents experience immobility despite massive environmental pressures. Direct and indirect adaptive capacities can lead to more equitable opportunities for residents to choose between staying or moving out and thereby may promote increased mobility justice. We highlight ways in which policy and political governance can better support impacted areas and invest in capacity-building among at-risk populations
Drama, plasma and mythos in achilles tatius' and macrembolites' novels and the philosophical foundations of the genre
No full textThe subject-mater of this study are drama, plasma and mythos as the key categories of narration in the ancient rhetoric being widely employed in the work of both classical and Byzantine representative of the genre and having their enormous, so far unnoticed, hermeneutical potential. The study consists of three segments with the first giving a detailed survey of all the instances of the use of these terms in Greek novel and the second characterised by the application of the hermeneutical method in an attempt to decipher new meanings of the terms referred to above in Tatius' and Macrembolites' romance as well as to point at new perspectives thus being created for a new and founded explanation of the birth and the poetics of the genre. In the third and the last segment the newly acquired meanings are applied to the definition and subdivision of the third type of narration in Cicero and the author of the Rhetorica ad Herennium. It has been convincingly shown that this definition, only if substantially illuminated by these new meanings, becomes fully usable in the endeavour to understand poetics of the novel, its philosophical foundation, as well as its practical application to the needs of teaching programme in the rhetorical schools in antiquity, by which research work directions, neglected a long time ago, are now being in the last analysis actualized again
