Stefan Tilg
Biographic Data
| ID | 5628786 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stefan Tilg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stefan |
| FAMILY NAME | Tilg |
| SIGNATURE | TILG S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bern |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5040-9638 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 55 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 22 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Andrea Musio
Handbuch Historische Narratologie
Das Handbuch stellt die erforscht die Bedingungen und Parameter vormodernen Erzählens von Ägypten über die Antike bis hin zu Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit. Erzählkategorien werden erläutert, Fachgeschichten von der Ägyptologie über die Skandinavistik bis zur Japanologie dargestellt.
Handbuch Historische Narratologie
Lyric Poetry
Science and Medicine
The German-Speaking Countries
The Oxford Handbook of Neo-Latin
From the dawn of the early modern period, around 1400, until the 18th century, Latin was still the European language and its influence extended as far as Asia and the Americas. At the same time, the production of Latin writing exploded thanks to book printing and new literary and cultural dynamics. Latin also entered into a complex interplay with the rising vernacular languages. This handbook gives an accessible survey of the main genres, context…
The Prologue
This chapter deals with the prologue to the Metamorphoses, in which issues of translating and adapting are dealt with. The prologue acts as a link between the then well-known Greek model and the Latin version Apuleius is presenting to his readers. Apuleius explains to them how Greek Loukios becomes Latin Lucius and how he will go about telling his story. This procedure is analysed by focusing on three major topics: the identity of the prologue sp…
Neo-Latin Anacreontic Poetry Its Shape(s) and Its Significance
As a basis for my further discussion it will be convenient to recall some facts concerning the discovery, the publication, and the initial literary appreciation of the Carmina Anacreontea (CA) in mid-16 th cent. France. 1 I shall put an emphasis on the enthusiasm of critics and poets about a new stylistic possibility opened up by CA. To some extent, this enthusiasm also accounts for the later creative imitations and adaptions in Neo-Latin poetry
Apuleius' Metamorphoses
This volume reveals how Apuleius' 'Metamorphoses' - the only fully extant Roman novel and a classic of world literature - works as a piece of literature, exploring its poetics and the way in which questions of production and reception are reflected in its text
Other early novelists
Chapter three investigates Chariton's relation to other early novels and novelists as far as date and authorship are concerned. On grounds of language, style, and apparent borrowings from Chariton, Xenophon of Ephesus’ Ephesiaca should be put later. The fragmentary novels Metiochus and Parthenope and Chione (the latter transmitted on a late‐antique papyrus) can be assigned to Chariton because of many parallels in plot, style, and motifs. Ninus is…
Novelty
Chapter five tracks Chariton's awareness of literary novelty. First, it presents and interprets all passages in which Chariton explicitly claims to do something original. Then, it analyses all occurrences of the adjective καινόσ – which means ‘new’, but also ‘original’, ‘novel’ – and related terms in Chariton and other novelists. My result is that Chariton invokes the idea of ‘novelty’ (καινότησ) particularly when he refers to something related t…
Virgil
Chapter eight substantiates the claim that Chariton looked to Virgil, adds further evidence to this, and considers conseqences for our general assessment of Narratives about Callirhoe. More parallels in phrases and motifs suggest that Chariton conceived of his novel to some extent as a romantic answer to Virgil's tragic story of Dido and Aeneas. A discussion of the general question of the reception of Roman literature in the Greek world is follow…
Narrative
Rumour
In Chariton's poetics the motif of Rumour is closely linked with the categories of novelty and narrative. This exploration of Rumour (Φήμη) in her own right completes the investigation of Chariton's poetics and leads on to a recent and unexpected model author: although there are some Homeric reminiscences in Chariton's Rumour, fuller functional and textual parallels in Virgil's Aeneid lead to believe that Chariton derived his motif from the Roman…
Novel poetics
Chapter four introduces the analysis of Chariton's poetics with an reconsideration of some remarkable characteristics singled out for one reason or another before: Chariton's general penchant for authorial intrusions – indicating a concern with self‐definition; his allusion to Aristotle's Poetics at the beginning of the last book (8. 1. 4) – inaugurating the invention of the happy ending and a new poetics of tragicomedy; the guidance of his reade…
Conclusion
The basic premises of my argument are a) there is no convincing evidence for ideal novels before Chariton; b) the historical milieu of Aphrodisias seems to have favoured the rise of this new form of writing; and c) we can find a ‘poetics of invention’ in Chariton's Narratives about Callirhoe. I conclude from these premises that Chariton was nothing short of the inventor of the ideal novel. Not in the sense that he already had an idea of the futur…
Chariton of Aphrodisias
Chapter two discusses selected aspects of Chariton's hometown, Aphrodisias, which might have been relevant to the invention of a new form of writing: the massive building programme in the city‐centre since Augustus, the local cult of Aphrodite, and various links to Miletus (which also had a famed cult of Aphrodite and was known as the focal point of Aristides’ Milesiaca, arguably a source of inspiration for Chariton's prose fiction). A detailed s…
Chariton of Aphrodisias and the Invention of the Greek Love Novel
The best known variety of the ancient novel - sometimes identified with the ancient novel tout court - is the Greek love novel. The question of its origins has intrigued scholars for centuries and has been the focus of a great deal of research. Stefan Tilg proposes a new solution to this ancient puzzle by arguing for a personal inventor of the genre, Chariton of Aphrodisias, who wrote the first Greek (and, with that, the first European) love nove…
Zu Paulus Ricius (ca. 1480–1541/1542)
Augustus and Orestes
snakes in the Georgics. Keeping company as it does with the glorious rose gardens of Paestum and the elegant, watery endive and celery, the plump cucumber thus adds to the sense that a garden has the potential to surprise with its bounty. For an instant reminding us of the sinister snakes lurking in the grass elsewhere in the Georgics, the cucumber emerges as a harmless, and welcome, vegetable
A Textual Note on Xenophon of Ephesus 3.9.4
In Xenophon's Ephesian Tale the male hero Habrocomes is at 3.9 once again in quest of his beloved Anthia. He has allied himself with the brigand Hippothous and eventually arrives with him and his band of robbers somewhere near the shore of Cilicia. After a fruitless excursion Habrocomes returns tired. Meanwhile Hippothous' men have prepared dinner. Habrocomes, however, is too depressed to join them and decides to rest. The following passage about…
Die produktive Rezeption der antiken Orthographie bei Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock
Die Symbolik chthonischer Götter in Sophokles' Ödipus auf Kolonos
The significant import of chthonic elements, especially chthonic deities, in Sophocles' Oedipus Coloneus has been widely noticed and variously discussed. The focus of this discussion traced, however, historical cult and religion without regard to a possible literary aspect. This paper tries to show how Sophocles throughout the play intentionally associates his protagonist with the sphere of the chthonic and dark as a means of creating a symbolic …
Chariton of Aphrodisias and the Invention of the Greek Love Novel
The best known variety of the ancient novel - sometimes identified with the ancient novel tout court - is the Greek love novel. The question of its origins has intrigued scholars for centuries and has been the focus of a great deal of research. Stefan Tilg proposes a new solution to this ancient puzzle by arguing for a personal inventor of the genre, Chariton of Aphrodisias, who wrote the first Greek (and, with that, the first European) love nove…
Apuleius' Metamorphoses
This volume reveals how Apuleius' 'Metamorphoses' - the only fully extant Roman novel and a classic of world literature - works as a piece of literature, exploring its poetics and the way in which questions of production and reception are reflected in its text
Augustus and Orestes
snakes in the Georgics. Keeping company as it does with the glorious rose gardens of Paestum and the elegant, watery endive and celery, the plump cucumber thus adds to the sense that a garden has the potential to surprise with its bounty. For an instant reminding us of the sinister snakes lurking in the grass elsewhere in the Georgics, the cucumber emerges as a harmless, and welcome, vegetable
Die produktive Rezeption der antiken Orthographie bei Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock
Die Symbolik chthonischer Götter in Sophokles' Ödipus auf Kolonos
The significant import of chthonic elements, especially chthonic deities, in Sophocles' Oedipus Coloneus has been widely noticed and variously discussed. The focus of this discussion traced, however, historical cult and religion without regard to a possible literary aspect. This paper tries to show how Sophocles throughout the play intentionally associates his protagonist with the sphere of the chthonic and dark as a means of creating a symbolic …
A Textual Note on Xenophon of Ephesus 3.9.4
In Xenophon's Ephesian Tale the male hero Habrocomes is at 3.9 once again in quest of his beloved Anthia. He has allied himself with the brigand Hippothous and eventually arrives with him and his band of robbers somewhere near the shore of Cilicia. After a fruitless excursion Habrocomes returns tired. Meanwhile Hippothous' men have prepared dinner. Habrocomes, however, is too depressed to join them and decides to rest. The following passage about…
Zu Paulus Ricius (ca. 1480–1541/1542)
Augustus and Orestes
snakes in the Georgics. Keeping company as it does with the glorious rose gardens of Paestum and the elegant, watery endive and celery, the plump cucumber thus adds to the sense that a garden has the potential to surprise with its bounty. For an instant reminding us of the sinister snakes lurking in the grass elsewhere in the Georgics, the cucumber emerges as a harmless, and welcome, vegetable
Other early novelists
Chapter three investigates Chariton's relation to other early novels and novelists as far as date and authorship are concerned. On grounds of language, style, and apparent borrowings from Chariton, Xenophon of Ephesus’ Ephesiaca should be put later. The fragmentary novels Metiochus and Parthenope and Chione (the latter transmitted on a late‐antique papyrus) can be assigned to Chariton because of many parallels in plot, style, and motifs. Ninus is…
Novelty
Chapter five tracks Chariton's awareness of literary novelty. First, it presents and interprets all passages in which Chariton explicitly claims to do something original. Then, it analyses all occurrences of the adjective καινόσ – which means ‘new’, but also ‘original’, ‘novel’ – and related terms in Chariton and other novelists. My result is that Chariton invokes the idea of ‘novelty’ (καινότησ) particularly when he refers to something related t…
Virgil
Chapter eight substantiates the claim that Chariton looked to Virgil, adds further evidence to this, and considers conseqences for our general assessment of Narratives about Callirhoe. More parallels in phrases and motifs suggest that Chariton conceived of his novel to some extent as a romantic answer to Virgil's tragic story of Dido and Aeneas. A discussion of the general question of the reception of Roman literature in the Greek world is follow…
Narrative
Rumour
In Chariton's poetics the motif of Rumour is closely linked with the categories of novelty and narrative. This exploration of Rumour (Φήμη) in her own right completes the investigation of Chariton's poetics and leads on to a recent and unexpected model author: although there are some Homeric reminiscences in Chariton's Rumour, fuller functional and textual parallels in Virgil's Aeneid lead to believe that Chariton derived his motif from the Roman…
Novel poetics
Chapter four introduces the analysis of Chariton's poetics with an reconsideration of some remarkable characteristics singled out for one reason or another before: Chariton's general penchant for authorial intrusions – indicating a concern with self‐definition; his allusion to Aristotle's Poetics at the beginning of the last book (8. 1. 4) – inaugurating the invention of the happy ending and a new poetics of tragicomedy; the guidance of his reade…
Conclusion
The basic premises of my argument are a) there is no convincing evidence for ideal novels before Chariton; b) the historical milieu of Aphrodisias seems to have favoured the rise of this new form of writing; and c) we can find a ‘poetics of invention’ in Chariton's Narratives about Callirhoe. I conclude from these premises that Chariton was nothing short of the inventor of the ideal novel. Not in the sense that he already had an idea of the futur…
Chariton of Aphrodisias
Chapter two discusses selected aspects of Chariton's hometown, Aphrodisias, which might have been relevant to the invention of a new form of writing: the massive building programme in the city‐centre since Augustus, the local cult of Aphrodite, and various links to Miletus (which also had a famed cult of Aphrodite and was known as the focal point of Aristides’ Milesiaca, arguably a source of inspiration for Chariton's prose fiction). A detailed s…
Chariton of Aphrodisias and the Invention of the Greek Love Novel
The best known variety of the ancient novel - sometimes identified with the ancient novel tout court - is the Greek love novel. The question of its origins has intrigued scholars for centuries and has been the focus of a great deal of research. Stefan Tilg proposes a new solution to this ancient puzzle by arguing for a personal inventor of the genre, Chariton of Aphrodisias, who wrote the first Greek (and, with that, the first European) love nove…
The Prologue
This chapter deals with the prologue to the Metamorphoses, in which issues of translating and adapting are dealt with. The prologue acts as a link between the then well-known Greek model and the Latin version Apuleius is presenting to his readers. Apuleius explains to them how Greek Loukios becomes Latin Lucius and how he will go about telling his story. This procedure is analysed by focusing on three major topics: the identity of the prologue sp…
Neo-Latin Anacreontic Poetry Its Shape(s) and Its Significance
As a basis for my further discussion it will be convenient to recall some facts concerning the discovery, the publication, and the initial literary appreciation of the Carmina Anacreontea (CA) in mid-16 th cent. France. 1 I shall put an emphasis on the enthusiasm of critics and poets about a new stylistic possibility opened up by CA. To some extent, this enthusiasm also accounts for the later creative imitations and adaptions in Neo-Latin poetry
Apuleius' Metamorphoses
This volume reveals how Apuleius' 'Metamorphoses' - the only fully extant Roman novel and a classic of world literature - works as a piece of literature, exploring its poetics and the way in which questions of production and reception are reflected in its text
Lyric Poetry
Science and Medicine
The German-Speaking Countries
The Oxford Handbook of Neo-Latin
From the dawn of the early modern period, around 1400, until the 18th century, Latin was still the European language and its influence extended as far as Asia and the Americas. At the same time, the production of Latin writing exploded thanks to book printing and new literary and cultural dynamics. Latin also entered into a complex interplay with the rising vernacular languages. This handbook gives an accessible survey of the main genres, context…
Handbuch Historische Narratologie
Das Handbuch stellt die erforscht die Bedingungen und Parameter vormodernen Erzählens von Ägypten über die Antike bis hin zu Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit. Erzählkategorien werden erläutert, Fachgeschichten von der Ägyptologie über die Skandinavistik bis zur Japanologie dargestellt.
Handbuch Historische Narratologie
Andrea Musio
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