Epitomic Writing in Late Antiquity and Beyond

Paolo Felice Sacchi is a researcher at Ghent University, Belgium.Marco Formisano is Professor of Latin Literature at Ghent University, Belgium. He has published extensively on late antique literature, both prose and poetry, Greek and Roman technical and scientific texts, early Christian martyr acts and classical reception. His publications include Un-learning the Classics: Studies in Late Latin Textuality.

• PrefaceIntroduction Paolo F. Sacchi and Marco Formisano (Ghent University, Belgium)I. Epitomic Dimensions1. Pascal Quignard’s Little Treatises: (Anti)odern Epitomes? Irena Kristeva (University of Sofia, Bulgaria)2. Ausonius Epitomist: Encyclopaedism and Ordering Knowledge in Late Antique Gaul Brian P. Sowers (City University of New York, USA)3. Cato Capitulatim: Nepos the Censor Jared Hudson (Harvard University, USA)4. Epitome and Its Surroundings Between Written and Figural Domain Paolo Liverani (University of Florence, Italy)5. Sarcinatorem esse summum: Nonius Marcellus and the Modern Editor as Textual Frankensteins M. Payne (Leiden University, the Netherlands)II. From the All to the Fragments?6. The Dismembered Truth: Pentheus Dismembered as an Image of the Stromateis Antoine Paris (University of Paris-Sorbonne/ University of Montréal, France/Canada)7. Barthes' Dream at the Collège de France: From Critical Fragments to Literary Re-compositions Mohammad Reza Fallah Nejad (University of Ahvaz, Iran)III. Aenigma and Silence8. Epitomizing Silence: the Apophthegmata Patrum as an Impossible Encyclopaedia of Unknowing Jesús Hernández Lobato (University of Salamanca, Spain)9. Dionysius’ Imaginary Library Virginia Burrus (Syracuse University, USA)10. The Kaleidoscopic World of Symphosius’ Aenigmata Philip Hardie (Cambridge University, UK)IV. Materiality11. 'Disfigured' Writing? The Case of A. Artaud's 503 Notebooks Ana Kiffer (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio, Brazil)12. Visual Epitome in Late Antique Art Jas Elsner (University of Oxford, UK)V. From the Fragments to the All?13. The Aeneid More or Less: The Argumenta of the ‘Twelve Wise Men’ Scott McGill (Rice University, USA)14. A Stubborn Chronophobia. Re-composition, Time and Memory in Pliny the Younger’s Epistulae and Vladimir Nabokov’s Speak Memory Tim Noens (Ghent Univeristy, Belgium)