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[German version] I. Definition The term ‘novels’ and ‘romance’ are not ancient, but the latter dates from the Middle Ages, when it denoted a work written in the Romance vernacular. There was no specific term for the genre in Antiquity ( drâma was common in Greek [1], fabula, in Latin, Apul. Met. 1.1, or argumentum, Macrob. Sat. In Somn. 1,2,8). Fusillo, Massimo (L'Aquila) II. Greek [German version] A. Overview and development of the genre In Greek literature, ‘novel’ denotes a series of texts of fiction, in prose, linked through two basic thematic features (love and a…

[German version] [1] [...]us C. s. M.  Arruntius Claudianus Hofmann, Heinz (Tübingen) [German version] [2] Claudius C. Graeco-Latin poet, c. AD 400 Graeco-Latin poet (about AD 400) from Alexandria. C. first wrote Greek poetry of which the opening of a ‘gigantomachy is preserved, whose praefatio in elegiac distichs indicates recitation in Alexandria. Of the seven epigrams in the  Anthologia Palatina attributed to a Klaudianos (see Claudius  Claudianus [3]), four were written by this C. (5,86,, 9,140. 753f.). He may also be the writer of (lost) epic poems…

[German version] Latin epic poet (6th cent. AD) from Africa. After poetic beginnings in the province he first found recognition with a panegyric  epic, also of historical importance ( Panegyrics), about the suppression of a revolt of nomadic tribes by Justinian's commander Iohannes Troglita ( Iohannis, 8 bks. = Ioh.); he recited the 1st bk. c. 550 in Carthage. His career as a ‘wandering poet’ [1] led him to Constantinople, where in 566/8 he presented a panegyric epic on  Iustinus II ( Laudes Iustini, 4 bks. = Laud.). An alleged panegyricus to the quaestor and magister Anastasius is …

[German version] Latin graffito of 5 rows of 5 letters, which can be read as a palindrome from all four sides and in all four directions: R O T A S     S A T O R     O P E R A     A R E P O     T E N E T     T E N E T     A R E P O     O P E R A     S A T O R     R O T A S     Fig. 1     While the 10 attested 1st-3rd century AD examples begin with ROTAS, those from late antiquity and the Byzantine period (some also in Greek letters) and from mediaeval and modern times start with SATOR. Finds are distributed over the whole of the Roman empire (Cirencester, Manchester, Aquincum, Dura-Europus, Ro…