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Using pagan fiction produced in Greek and Latin during the early Christian era, G. W. Bowersock investigates the complex relationship between historical and fictional truths. This relationship preoccupied writers of the second century, a time when apparent fictions about both past and present were proliferating at an astonishing rate and history was being invented all over again. With force and eloquence, Bowersock illuminates social attitudes of this period and persuasively argues that its fiction was influenced by the emerging Christian Gospel narratives.Enthralling in its breadth and enhanced by two erudite appendices, this is a book that will be warmly welcomed by historians and interpreters of literature.
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University of California Press BERKELEY LOS ANGELES LONDON
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University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles, California
University of California Press, Ltd. London, England
1994 by The Regents of the University of California
First Paperback Printing 1997
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Bowersock, G. W. (Glen Warren), 1936 Fiction as history: Nero to Julian / G. W. Bowersock. p. cm. (Sather classic lectures; v. 58) Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. ISBN 0-520-20881-1 1. Latin literatureHistory and criticism. 2. Literature and historyRome. 3. RomeHistoriography. 4. RomeIn literature. I. Title II. Series. PA6019.B68 1995 870.9'001dc20 93-49 5 8 1 CIP
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The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1984.
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"Your story is extremely interesting, Professor, but it differs completely from the accounts in the gospels."
"But surely," replied the professor with a condescending smile, "you of all people must realize that absolutely nothing written in the gospels actually happened .... "
"I agree..., but I'm afraid that no one is in a position to prove the authenticity of your version either."
"Oh, yes! I can easily confirm it!" rejoined the professor ....
The fact is"here the professor glanced round nervously and dropped his voice to a whisper"I was there myself." M. Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita (translation by M. Glenny)
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Contents
Preface
ix
Abbreviations
xiii
I Truth in Lying
1
II Other Peoples, Other Places
29
III The Wounded Savior
55
IV The Reality of Dreams
77
V Resurrection
99
VI Polytheism and Scripture
121
Appendixes
A Artemidorus, Oneir. 1.56
145
B The Aethiopica of Heliodorus
149
Bibliography
161
Index Locorum
169
General Index
175
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Preface
The pages that follow constitute, with the addition of two appendixes, the revised and documented text of the six lectures that I had the honor of delivering as Sather Professor in the Department of Classics at the University of California, Berkeley, in the autumn of 1991. The term I spent at that great university was memorable for me in many ways, but perhaps above all for the hospitality and liveliness of the intellectual community that welcomed me there. I shall always feel an immense debt of gratitude to Mark Griffith, chairman of the department, and to his colleagues, as well as to the remarkably gifted students who participated in my seminar on Roman Syria.
Although my seminar was on a strictly historical subject, I tried to remember in delivering my Sather Lectures that the title of the chair is, in fact, Sather Professor of Classical Literature. I share very much the opinion of Keith Hopkins in a recent article: "Serious historians of the ancient world have often undervalued fiction, if only... because by convention history is concerned principally with the recovery of truth about the past. But for social historyfor the history of culture, for the history of people's understanding of their own societyfiction occupies a privileged position" (Past and Present 138 [1993], 6).
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I am conscious of two important predecessors who, in their own Sather Lectures, have touched on the themes I develop here. One was the inimitable Eric Dodds, whose Greeks and the Irrational first persuaded classical scholars that dreams, among other shadowy phenomena, deserved serious thought. The other was a pioneer in the study of ancient fiction, Ben Perry, who lectured in 1951 on
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