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Emotional Conflict and Platonic Psychology in the Greek Novel
No full textInternal emotional conflict is a staple of erotic fiction, and one way of conveying it available to an ancient author was Platonic psychology. Plato, an immensely popular author in the Second Sophistic, divided the soul into parts to account for conflicting desires: this idea and the terminology involved is repeatedly discussed by Plutarch and can be seen deployed in the works of the Greek novelists, especially Achilles Tatius and Heliodorus, although its beginnings are present in Chariton. A ready and adaptable means of describing psychological turmoil and the feelings inspired by desire, the use of Platonic psychology shows the authors under consideration to be philosophically literate and writing for a readership which shared that knowledge and appreciated its meaning.Ian Repath is Lecturer in Classics at Swansea University. He works and has published on Second Sophistic prose fiction, especially the Greek novel, names and allusions in fiction, the Roman novel, literary aspects of Plato, and ancient physiognomy. He is a founding member of KYKNOS
A funny thing happened on my way to the market: reading Petronius to write economic history
No full textPetronius' novel is an important rate source for Roman social and economic history. However, it is also a extremely difficult source to interpret. This chapter introduces the reader to some of the possibilities and difficulties involved in using the Satyrica
A funny thing happened on my way to the market. Reading Petronius to write economic history
Get PDFPetronius' novel is an important rate source for Roman social and economic history. However, it is also a extremely difficult source to interpret. This chapter introduces the reader to some of the possibilities and difficulties involved in using the Satyrica
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Callisthenes in Achilles Tatius\u27 Leucippe And Cleitophon: Double Jeopardy?
No full textAchilles Tatius seemingly has two characters with the name Callisthenes; this is unparalleled in the Greek novel genre. A comparison reveals multiple similarities between episodes and situations involving or connected with the two, and although the second is only named once, the involvement of both with bandits and abduction encourages the reader to link them. The second Callisthenes is mentioned (but not named) for the second and only other time immediately before Sostratus’ speech on the amazing conversion of the first Callisthenes. This juxtaposition problematises what Sostratus says, which itself is open to doubt in several ways. The possibility that we have only the one Callisthenes is left open. The questions of identity and narratorial reliability raised contribute to the sense of unease at the novel’s infamously rapid and anti-climactic ending.Ian Repath is lecturer in Classics at Swansea University. He works and has published on second sophistic prose fiction, especially the Greek novel, names and allusions in fiction, the Roman novel, literary aspects of Plato, and ancient physiognomy. He is a founding member of KYKNOS, theSwansea, Lampeter, and Exeter Centre for Research in Ancient Narrative Literatures
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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