![]() Schmeling (ed.), The Novel in the Ancient World: Revised Edition ( Boston 2003), 1–9, at 1–5 Google Scholar Relihan, J.C. Doody, M.A., The True Story of the Novel ( New Brunswick 1997), 1–32 Google Scholar Schmeling, G., ‘ Preface’, in G. The history of the reception of the novel therefore may show more intriguing twists and contradictions than that of such established and uncontroversially ‘great’ genres as epic or tragedy.Ĥ. Although a late and ignoble genre within antiquity, despite its often considerable linguistic and literary artistry, it came to enjoy relatively wide cultural recognition and circulation in the early modern period, before being outshone by the modern Western novel and sinking back into relative obscurity again both in the public and in academia-and its literary character is still very much controversial, to the extent that it is debated whether the ancient genre may justifiably be called ‘novel’. ![]() The ancient novel, as Whitmarsh observes, is a genre uniquely suited for reception studies, especially of the more usual kind that is concerned with the modern period. With the rising interest in the study of classical receptions, including those taking place outside the West, the time may be ripe for a serious look at this early Meiji translation by Morita Shiken-its content, source, intellectual climate surrounding its production, and its own subsequent reception in Japan. Although this was the first translation of Greco-Roman literature to appear in modern Japanese, it has, at least in print, never been examined by a classicist before. 122Varro’s “Menippean” satires are in a mixture of prose and verse.This paper will consider the 1887 Japanese translation of Apuleius' Golden Ass from the angle of classical reception.121Not Martial (an epigrammatist is not a satirist) or Juvenal (who did not write till after Domitian was dead), but possibly Julius Rufus (Martial 10.99) and Turnus (Martial 7.97, 11.10: Courtney (1993) 362–363).For the high place given to Tibullus, compare Velleius Paterculus 2.36.3, and the epigram by Domitius Marsus commemorating the deaths of Tibullus and Vergil (Courtney (1993) 303). 119The stylistic “stiffness” of Gallus is all too apparent in the recently discovered papyrus fragments (Courtney (1993) 263–268).The Iambic has not been much cultivated by Romans as 122 Varro wrote many very learned books, and was profoundly knowledgeable about the Latin language and about all antiquity and both Greek and Roman history but he has more to contribute to our knowledge than to our eloquence. 121 Another, older type of Satire, was written by Terentius Varro, the most learned of all Romans, in a mixed form not limited to different kinds of verse. And there are distinguished satirists even today, men who will one day be famous. However, Persius, with his one book, has earned much fame, well justified. Horace is much more refined and pure unless my affection for him leads me astray, he is the best of them all. I disagree, just as much as I disagree with Horace, who speaks of Lucilius’ “muddy stream” and says there is “something you could take away.” 120 In fact, Lucilius has both remarkable learning and remarkable freedom, and hence a sharp edge and an abundance of wit. The first poet to achieve high renown in this genre, Lucilius, still has admirers so devoted to him that they unhesitatingly prefer him not only to other satirists but to all poets. Ovid is more self-indulgent than these two, Gallus stiffer. The most refined and elegant author seems to me to be Tibullus. Plurimos hic libros et doctissimos composuit, peritissimus linguae Latinae et omnis antiquitatis et rerum Graecarum nostrarumque, plus tamen scientiae conlaturus quam eloquentiae.ĩ6 Iambus non sane a Romanis celebratus est ut proprium Alterum illud etiam prius saturae genus, sed non sola carminum varietate mixtum, condidit Terentius Varro, vir Romanorum eruditissimus. Sunt clari 95 hodieque et qui olim nominabuntur. Multum et verae gloriae quamvis uno libro Persius meruit. Multum est tersior ac purus magis Horatius et, nisi labor eius amore, praecipuus. Nam et eruditio in eo mira et libertas atque inde acerbitas et abunde salis. Ego quantum ab illis, tantum ab Horatio dissentio, qui Lucilium ‘fluere lutulentum’ et esse aliquid quod tollere possis putat. Satura quidem tota nostra est, in qua primus insignem laudem adeptus Lucilius quosdam ita deditos sibi adhuc habet amatores ut eum non eiusdem modo operis auctoribus 94 sed omnibus poetis praeferre non dubitent. Ovidius utroque lascivior, sicut durior Gallus. ![]() 93 Elegia quoque Graecos provocamus, cuius mihi tersus atque elegans maxime videtur auctor Tibullus.
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