Slaves and masters in the ancient novel / edited by Stelios Panayotakis and Michael Paschalis ; with an introduction by Costas Panayotakis.
"The present volume contains revised versions of most of the papers that were delivered at RICAN 7, which was held in Rethymnon, Crete, on 27-28 May 2013. The focus of the conference was on the portrayal and function of male and female slaves and their masters/mistresses in the ancient novel an...
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Groningen :
Barkhuis : Groningen University Library,
2019.
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| Series: | Ancient narrative. Supplementum ;
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Table of Contents:
- The role of gender and sexuality in the enslavement and liberation of female slaves in the ancient Greek romances / John Hilton
- Noble slaves: the rhetoric of social status reversal in the ancient Greek novel / Koen de Temmerman
- Callirhoe: a therapeutic slave narrative / William M. Owens
- Slavery and structure in Xenophon of Ephesus / Stephen M. Trzaskoma
- Slavery and despotism in Iamblichos' Babyloniaka / Ken Dowden
- Achilles Tatius, slaves, and masters / Alain Billault
- Animals, slaves and masters in Longus' Daphnis and Chloe / Ewen Bowie
- They get by without a little help from their slaves: the exceptional destiny of Chariclea and Theagenes / Silvia Montiglio
- Mistresses and servant-women, and the slavery and mastery of love in Heliodoros / J.R. Morgan and Ian Repath
- Liber esto: free speech at the Banquet of Trimalchio / John Bodel
- Slavery and beauty in Petronius / Costas Panayotakis
- Apuleius' Photis: comic slave or elegiac mistress? / Regine May
- Masters and slaves in pseudo-Lucian's Onos and Apuleius' Metamorphoses / Michael Paschalis
- Reading the Aesopic corpus: slavery, freedom, and storytelling in the Life of Aesop / Jeremy B. Lefkowitz.