Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introducing the dynamics of ancient prose -- Part I: Biographic -- The Strategies of Plutarch's On the Malice of Herodotus / Marincola, John -- Bodily Attributes and Authority: Descriptions of the Body in Suetonius' Biographies / Vidén, Gunhild -- Power and paradox in the early writings of Marcus Aurelius and Fronto: 'biographical sketches' in laudes and letters / Thorsen, Thea S. -- Part II: Novelistic -- The autobiography of Encolpius: Reading the Satyrica as the confessions of the firstperson narrator / Schmeling, Gareth -- The Visibility of the Author in the Ancient Novel / Dowden, Ken / Myers, Amanda -- Apuleius and the Idea of Taste in Classical Antiquity / Konstan, David -- The Flowers of the Meadow: Intrageneric Intertextuality in Achilles Tatius 1-2 / Whitmarsh, Tim -- Part III: Apologetic -- The rhetorical construction of heresy in the Church Fathers / Thomassen, Einar -- Hagiography and Displacement: City Readers, Desert Scenes / Rousseau, Philip -- Biographical sketches of the heretical life: The Panarion of Epiphanius of Salamis / Gilhus, Ingvild Sælid -- Part IV: Receptions -- Psyche amongst the Victorians: An Aspect of Apuleian Reception / Harrison, Stephen -- Captured moments: Illustrating Longus' prose / Bowie, Ewen -- List of Contributors -- Bibliography -- General Index -- Index Locorum |