Literary memory and new voices in the ancient novel

Abstract

This is one of the last volumes in a series of selected papers presented at the International Conference on the Ancient Novel (ICAN IV), which was held at the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, from 21 to 26 July 2008. The papers in this volume discuss, from various perspectives, the engagement of the ancient novels with their predecessors and aim to identify and interpret the resonances, of different degrees of closeness, of those texts (Homeric epics, traditional and nuptial poetry, the historiographical tradition, Greek theatre, Latin love elegy and pantomime) as elements of an intertextual and metadiscursive play.