Novel Echoes. Ancient Novelistic Receptions and Concepts of Fiction in Late Antique and Medieval Secular Narrative from East to West

Project Information

NovelEchoes

Grant agreement ID: 819459

DOI

10.3030/819459

Project closed

EC signature date 18 December 2018

Start date 1 May 2019

End date 30 April 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 999 375,00

EU contribution

€ 1 999 375,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITEIT GENT
Belgium

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Publications

Monographic books (6)

Constructing Saints in Greek and Latin Hagiography. Heroes and Heroines in Late Antique and Medieval Narrative

Author(s): Koen De Temmerman, Julie Van Pelt & Klazina Staat (eds.)
Published in: 2023, ISBN 978-2-503-60282-0
Publisher: Brepols

“Introduction: Fictions of Genre”

Author(s): J. Soldo, Claire Rachel Jackson
Published in: Res vera, res ficta: Fictionality in Ancient Epistolography, Trends in Classics Supplementary Volume 149, Issue 1, 2023
Publisher: De Grjyter Brill

Narrative, Imagination and Concepts of Fiction in Late Antique Hagiography

Author(s): Julie Van Pelt, Koen De Temmerman
Published in: 2023, ISBN 978-90-04-68507-9
Publisher: Brill

Enchanted Reception: Religion and the supernatural in medieval Troy narratives

Author(s): null null, Tine Scheijnen, Ellen Söderblom Saarela
Published in: 2025
Publisher: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis
DOI: 10.33063/kqgmq452

res vera, res ficta: Fictionality in Ancient Epistolography

Author(s): Janja Soldo, Claire Rachel Jackson
Published in: Trends in Classics Supplementary Volume, Issue 149, 2023
Publisher: De Gruyter

The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Biography

Author(s): Koen De Temmerman
Published in: 2020, ISBN 9780198703013
Publisher: Oxford University Press

Other (2)

Book review: Owens, William M.: The Representation of Slavery in the Greek Novel. Resistance and Appropriation. London/New York: Routledge 2022. X, 244 S.

Author(s): Claire Rachel Jackson
Published in: Gnomon, Issue 97.1, 2025, Page(s) 65-69
Publisher: Beck

Book review: “Bird, R. Sophrosune in the Greek Novels: Reading Reaction to Desire. London and New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. Pp. 235.

Author(s): Claire Rachel Jackson
Published in: Journal of Hellenic Studies, 2023, Page(s) online
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Peer reviewed articles (16)

Seeing double(s): Reception of Chariton in the Erôtes

Author(s): Nicolò D'Alconzo
Published in: Mnemosyne, 2022, ISSN 0026-7074
Publisher: Brill

Review of Bowie, (E.) (ed.) Longus: Daphnis and Chloe. Pp. x + 338. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019. Paper. £24.99, US $32.99 (Cased £79.99, US$105). ISBN: 978-0-521-77659 (978-0-521-77220-4 hbk).

Author(s): Claire Rachel Jackson
Published in: Classical Review, Issue 72.2, 2022, Page(s) 1-3, ISSN 0009-840X
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s0009840x22000300

THEORIES OF THE ANCIENT NOVEL - (R.B.) Branham Inventing the Novel. Bakhtin and Petronius Face to Face. Pp. xvi + 225. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. Cased, £65, US$85. ISBN: 978-0-19-884126-5.

Author(s): Ellen Söderblom Saarela
Published in: The Classical Review, 2020, Page(s) 1-3, ISSN 0009-840X
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s0009840x2000147x

Believable Lies and Implausible Truths: Negotiating Late Antique Concepts of Fiction in Heliodorus’ Aithiopika

Author(s): Claire Rachel Jackson
Published in: Transactions of the American Philological Association, 2021, ISSN 0360-5949
Publisher: The Association by the Press of Case Western Reserve University

Decoding the Erōtes: Reception of Achilles Tatius and the Modernity of the Greek Novel

Author(s): Nicolò D'Alconzo
Published in: American Journal of Philology, Issue 142/3, 2021, Page(s) 461-492, ISSN 1086-3168
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
DOI: 10.1353/ajp.2021.0015

Greek Influences on Syriac and Contact-Induced Changes: Reflections on a Recent Book

Author(s): Mara Nicosia
Published in: Annali Sezione Orientale, Issue 81/1-2, 2021, Page(s) 175-186, ISSN 0393-3180
Publisher: Brill
DOI: 10.1163/24685631-12340116

THE ANCIENT NOVEL AND SLAVERY - (S.) Panayotakis, (M.) Paschalis (edd.) Slaves and Masters in the Ancient Novel. ( Ancient Narrative Supplementum 23.) Pp. xviii + 282. Groningen: Barkhuis & Groningen University Library, 2019. Cased, €95. ISBN: 978-94-92444-19-6.

Author(s): Claire Rachel Jackson
Published in: The Classical Review, Issue 71/1, 2021, Page(s) 6-9, ISSN 0009-840X
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
DOI: 10.1017/s0009840x20001912

Reassessing Antony of Tagrit: When Did He Actually Live?

Author(s): Mara Nicosia
Published in: Oriens Christianus, Issue 104, 2021, Page(s) 68-89, ISSN 0340-6407
Publisher: Görres-Gesellschaft

"""Review: Genesis According to the Syriac Peshitta Version with English Translation, English translation by Craig E. Morrison, with the Assistance of Claudio Balzaretti and Mirko Pozzobon; text prepared by George A. Kiraz and Joseph Bali, Surath Kthob. Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2019. 9781463207410."

Author(s): Simon Ford
Published in: Journal of Jewish Studies, Issue 72.1, 2021, Page(s) 197-198, ISSN 0022-2097
Publisher: Brill

Review of Francis Cairns and Trevor Luke (eds.) Ancient Biography. Identity through Lives. Papers of the Langford Latin Seminar 17. Prenton: Francis Cairns Publications, 2018.

Author(s): Koen De Temmerman
Published in: Gnomon. Kritische Zeitschrift für die gesamte Klassische Altertumswissenschaft, 2021, ISSN 0017-1417
Publisher: C.H. Beck

Letters, Mirrors, and Fiction in Iamblichus’ Babyloniaka

Author(s): Claire Rachel Jackson
Published in: Mnemosyne, 2024, ISSN 1568-525X
Publisher: Brill

Who Reads Ancient Novels? Reading Fiction in Antiquity

Author(s): Claire Rachel Jackson
Published in: Tetradio, Issue 30, 2021, Page(s) 83-103, ISSN 0779-1933
Publisher: Universiteit Gent

Of giraffes and men: a show of hybrid bodies in Heliodorus' Aithiopika

Author(s): Nicolò D'Alconzo
Published in: Cuadernos de Filología Clásica, estudios griegos e indoeuropeos, Issue 35, 2025, Page(s) 297-313, ISSN 1988-2637
Publisher: Universidad Complutense Madrid

Achilles Tatius, Leukippe Och Kleitophon

Author(s): Ellen Söderblom Saarela
Published in: Hellenika, Issue 177.3, 2021, Page(s) 18, ISSN 0348-0100
Publisher: Föreningen Svenska Atheninstitutets vänner

‘Heliodorus’ Aethiopica in Antony of Tagrit’s Fifth Book of Rhetoric: A Follow-up Study, Sixteen Years after the Discovery’

Author(s): Mara Nicosia
Published in: Le Muséon, Issue 137/1-2, 2024, Page(s) 137-169, ISSN 0771-6494
Publisher: Peeters Press

Novel quotes : Achilles Tatius and Heliodorus in Byzantine sacro-profane florilegia

Author(s): Nicolò D'Alconzo
Published in: BYZANTINISCHE ZEITSCHRIFT, 2022, Page(s) 769-802, ISSN 0007-7704
Publisher: B.G. Teubner

Book chapters (22)

Achilles Tatius

Author(s): Koen De Temmerman
Published in: Characterization in Ancient Greek Literature, 2025, Page(s) 591-607
Publisher: BRILL
DOI: 10.1163/9789004356313_034

'Graeco-Aramaica: A Look at Greek Words in Christian Palestinian Aramaic’

Author(s): Mara Nicosia
Published in: in E. Fiori – M. Nicosia (eds.), Christian Palestinian Aramaic: New Perspectives on Language and Texts (Syriaca 1), 2026
Publisher: Ca’ Foscari

Writing (about) Ancient Lives: Scholarship, Definitions and Concepts

Author(s): Koen De Temmerman
Published in: The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Biography, 2020, Page(s) 3-18
Publisher: Oxford University Press

Portraying power: Lucian's Imagines and Marcus Aurelius' Meditations

Author(s): Nicolò D'Alconzo
Published in: Articulating resistance under the Roman empire, 2022
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

‘Saints, Narratives, and Hero(in)es: Scholarship, Definitions, and Concepts’

Author(s): Koen De Temmerman
Published in: in K. De Temmerman, J. Van Pelt, K. Staat (eds.) Holy Hero(in)es. Narrative Constructions of Saints in Greek and Latin Hagiography, 2023, Page(s) 11-31
Publisher: Turnhout

Achilles Tatius

Author(s): Koen De Temmerman
Published in: Speech in Ancient Greek Literature. Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative, 2021
Publisher: Brill

Introduction: the medium of empire

Author(s): Claire Rachel Jackson, Tom Geue, Francesca Middleton
Published in: The medium of empire: unstable text in Rome's imperial literature, 2022
Publisher: Trinity College Dublin (Hermathena special issue)

A desire (not) to die for. Narrating emotions in Pseudo-Nilus

Author(s): Koen De Temmerman
Published in: in M. de Bakker, J. Klooster, B. Van den Berg (eds.) Narratological Approaches to Emotions in Ancient Greek Narrative and Beyond, 2022, Page(s) 682-96.
Publisher: Brill

Crafting traditions: Antony of Tagrit, his 'classics'and the Syriac classicising rhetorical learning.

Author(s): Mara Nicosia
Published in: Performing Antiquity: Classics, Community and Power in Medieval Eurasia, 2023
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

“Fiction and Authenticity in the Letters of Euripides”

Author(s): Claire Rachel Jackson
Published in: Res vera, res ficta: Fictionality in Ancient Epistolography, Trends in Classics supplementary volume 149, 2023, Page(s) 45-68
Publisher: De Gruyter

Chariton

Author(s): Koen De Temmerman
Published in: Speech in Ancient Greek Literature. Studies in Ancient Greek Narrative, 2021
Publisher: Brill

Martyrs and Life-Writing in Late Antiquity

Author(s): Koen De Temmerman, Danny Praet
Published in: The Oxford Handbook of Ancient Biography, 2020, Page(s) 375-85
Publisher: Brill

Authorial Fictions, Phoenician Paradigms, and the Reception of Achilles Tatius’ Leucippe and Clitophon in the Lives of Galaction and Episteme

Author(s): Claire Rachel Jackson
Published in: Authorial Fictions and Attributions in the Ancient Mediterranean, 2024
Publisher: Mohr Sieback

‘Narratives of Imagination and Fiction in Late Antique Hagiography: Scholarship and Ways Forward’,

Author(s): Koen De Temmerman, Julie Van Pelt
Published in: in Julie Van Pelt and Koen De Temmerman (eds.) Narrative, Imagination and Concepts of Fiction in Late Antique Hagiography, 2023, Page(s) 3-26
Publisher: Brill

Confronting Cyprian: Anti-Rigorism in the Letters of Severus of Antioch

Author(s): Simon Ford
Published in: Studia Patristica CXXIX: Papers Presented at the Eighteenth International Conference on Patristic Studies Held in Oxford 2019, M. Vinzent (ed.), Volume 26: From the Fifth Century Onwards (Greek Writers); Following the Holy Fathers: Patristic Sources in Palamite Controversy (edited by Tikhon Alexander Pino, Issue 26, 2021, Page(s) 167-181
Publisher: Peeters

Rhetoric and other language sciences in Syriac

Author(s): Margherita Farina, Mara Nicosia
Published in: Cambridge History of Rhetoric vol. 2, 2022
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

The Greek Vita Malchi: Translating and Rewriting Jerome

Author(s): Klazina Staat, Julie Van Pelt & Koen De Temmerman
Published in: S. Constantinou & C. Høgel (eds.) Metaphrasis: A Byzantine Concept of Rewriting and Its Hagiographical Products, 2020, Page(s) 92-106.
Publisher: Brill

Chariton’s Callirhoe, Antonius Diogenes’ The Wonders Beyond Thule, and Novel Histories of Genre

Author(s): Claire Rachel Jackson
Published in: Generic Interplays in Imperial Greek Literature, 2026, Page(s) 243-272
Publisher: De Gruyter

Disenchanted Reception: Amazonian Diversities in Medieval Receptions of Myth

Author(s): Ellen Söderblom Saarela
Published in: Enchanted Reception: Religion and the Supernatural in Medieval Troy Narratives, 2025
Publisher: Uppsala University Publications

Chariton

Author(s): Koen De Temmerman
Published in: Speech in Ancient Greek Literature, 2025, Page(s) 635-653
Publisher: BRILL
DOI: 10.1163/9789004498815_029

Saints, Narratives, and Hero(in)es. Scholarship, Definitions, and Concepts

Author(s): Koen De Temmerman
Published in: Constructing Saints in Greek and Latin Hagiography, 2024, Page(s) 11-31
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
DOI: 10.1484/m.fabulae-eb.5.132446

“Introduction: Fictions of Genre”

Author(s): J. Soldo, Claire Rachel Jackson
Published in: Res vera, res ficta: Fictionality in Ancient Epistolography, Trends in Classics Supplementary Volume 149, 2023, Page(s) 1-18
Publisher: De Gruyter

Non-peer reviewed articles (2)

Review: Bartonek Åhman, H. (transl.). Gesta Romanorum i urval och översättning

Author(s): Ellen Söderblom Saarela
Published in: Signum, Issue 6, 2020, Page(s) 236, ISSN 0347-0423
Publisher: Chefredaktör Ulf Jonsson

Retorica in de antieke klas : vergeten hefboom voor taal- en literatuuronderwijs vandaag

Author(s): Koen De Temmerman
Published in: Tetradio, Issue 28, 2020, Page(s) 7-22, ISSN 0779-1933
Publisher: Universiteit Gent