• Gareth Schmeling
  • Date of Birth: May 28, 1940
  • Born City: Algoma
  • Born State/Country: WI
  • Parents: Walter Charles, a nurse & Tabea Braem S., Caregiver
  • Married: Karen Weiss S., December 21, 1963 (deceased); Silvia Montiglio, August 24, 2006
  • Education:

    B.A,. Northwestern College; M.A., University of Wisconsin; Ph.D., 1968. 

  • Dissertation:

    "Studies in Petronius," (Wisconsin, 1968).

  • Professional Experience:

    Knapp Fellowship, University of Wisconsin, 1963-68; Wisconsin; Fellow, ASCSA 1965-66; asst. prof., University of Virginia, 1968-70; asso. prof., University of Florida, 1970-74; prof., 1974-1996; Distinguished Professor of Classics, 1996-2005; Fellow, Johns Hopkins University 2010-. American Philosophical Society Grant, 1970, 1972, 1973, 1977-78, 1984-85; NEH Fellowship, 1973-74; ACLS Grant, 1974; Rome Prize, AAR, 1977-78; editor, Petronian Society Newsletter, 1970-95; editor, Ancient Narrative, 2006-2023; Trustee of AAR, 1984-87; president, CAMWS, 1985-86.

  • Publications:

    Books: Cornelius Nepos: Lives of Famous Men, trans. (Lawrence, KS, 1971); Chariton (New York, 1974); A Bibliography of Petronius, with Johanna Stuckey (Leiden, 1977); Xenophon of Ephesus (Boston, 1980); Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri (Leipzig, 1988); The Novel in the Ancient World, ed. (Leiden, 1996, 2003); A History of Roman Literature, by Michael von Albrecht, 2 vols., revised and edited (Leiden, 1997); Qui Miscuit Utile Dulci, ed., with Jon Mikalson (Chicago, 1998); A Commentary on the Satyrica of Petronius (Oxford, 2011); Petronius, Satyrica. Seneca, Apocolocyntosis, Loeb Classical Library 15 (Cambrisge, MA: Harvard U. Press, 2020).

    “Petronian Scholarship Since 1956,” CW 62 (1969) 157-64, 352-3; “Petronius: Satirist, Moralist, Epicurian, Artist,” CB 45 (1969) 49-50, 64; “The Literary Use of Names in Petronius’ Satyricon,” Rivista di Studi Classici 17 (1969) 5-10; “An Exclusus Amator in a Poem Attributed to Petronius,” Giornale Italiano di Filologia 21 (1969) 325-27; “Trimalchio’s Menu and Wine List,” CP 65 (1970) 248-51; “A Pythagorean Element of the Subterranean Basilica at the Porta Maggiore,” Latomus 28 (1969) 1071-73; “Vergil on Trial,” CO 47 (1970) 109-10; “A Note on Petronius 62.9,” RCCM 12 (1970) 38-9; “The Satyricon: Forms in Search of a Genre,” CB 47 (1971) 49-53; “Myth in Two Antigones,” Dionisio 44 (1970) 8-11; “The Exclusus Amator Motif in Petronius,” Fons Perennis, ed., Vittorio D’Agostino (Turin, 1971), 333-57; “T.S. Eliot and Petronius,” CLS 12 (1975) 393-410, with David Rebman; “Humanities Perspectives on the Professions,” Liberal Education 63 (1977) 212-19; “Petronius: ètat de la question,” Erotica Antiqua, ed., Bryan Reardon (Bangor, 1977) 5-7; “The Authority of the Author: From Muse to Aesthetics,” Materiali e Contributi per la Storia della Narrativa Greco-Latina 3 (1981) 369-77; “The Law as Servant of the Humanities,” Liberal Education 70 (1984) 133-41, with Sidney Holmes; “Manners and Morality in the Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri,” Piccolo Mondo, ed., Antonio Scarcella (Perugia, 1989) 197-215; “End Games: Closure in the Satyricon,” The Ancient Novel: Classical Paradigms, ed. James Tatum (Hanover, 1990) 137; “The Satyricon: the Sense of an Ending,” RhM 134 (1991) 352-77; “Petronius 14.3: Shekels and Lupines,” Mnemosyne 45 (1992) 531-36; “Notes to the Text of the Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri (Part 1),” Latomus 53.1 (1994) 132-54, (Part 2) in 53.2 (1994) 386-403; “Confessor Gloriosus: a Role of Encolpius in the Satyrica,” WJA 20 (1994-95) 207-24; “Quid attinet veritatem per interpretem quaerere? Interpretes and the Satyrica of Petronius,” Ramus 23.1-2 (1994) 144-68; “Genre and the Satyrica: Menippean Satire and the Novel,” Satura Lanx, ed., Claudia Klodt (Hildesheim, 1996) 105-17; “The Satyrica of Petronius,” The Novel in the Ancient World, ed., idem (Leiden, 1996) 457-490; “Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri,” The Novel in the Ancient World, ed., idem (Leiden, 1996) 517-51; “Motivation, Probability and Interpretation in the Ancient Novel,” Ars Narrandi, ed. C. Santini (Perugia, 1997) 77-86; “Aphrodite and the Satyrica,” Qui Miscuit Utile Dulci, ed. idem (Chicago, 1998) 343-8; “Apollonius of Tyri: Last of the Troublesome Latin Novels,” ANRW II 34.4 (Berlin, 1998) 3270-91; “The Spectrum of Narrative: Authority of the Author,” Ancient Fiction and Early Christian Literature, ed., Ronald Hock (Atlanta, 1998) 18-30; “Petronius and the Satyrica,” Latin Fiction, ed. Heinz Hofmann (London, 1999) 23-37, “The History of Apollonius of Tyre,” in the above, 141-52; “Petronius,” Dictionary of Literary Biography: Rome, ed. Ward Briggs, Jr. (New York, 1999) 214-21; “Urbs Aeterna: Rome, a Monument of the Mind,” Rome and her Monuments, ed., Sheila Dickison (Chicago, 2000) 89-98; “Battle of Banquets,” Materiali e Discussioni 44 (2001) 217-220; “Satire with a Smile: Donnish Humor and the Satyrica of Petronius," CB 77 (2001) 51-60; “(Mis)uses of Mythology in Petronius,” Vertis in Usum, ed., John Miller (Leipzig, 2002) 152-63; “Humano capite: Body-parts and Beautiful Women in Petronius and Lucian,” Prose et linguistique, ed. P. Defosse (Brussels, 2002) 404-408; “Myths of Person and Place: the Search for a Model for the Ancient Novel,” The Ancient Novel and Beyond, ed, Stelios Panayotakis (Leiden, 2003) 425-42; “No One Listens: Narrative and Background Noise in the Satyrica,” Petroniana, ed., J. Herman (Heidelberg, 2003)183-192; “John Patrick Sullivan,” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, 2004); “Callirhoe: God-like Beauty and the Making of a Celebrity,” Metaphor and the Ancient Novel, ed., Stephen Harrison (Groningen, 2005) 36-49; “Preface,” Ancient Fiction: the Matrix of Early Christian and Jewish Narrative, ed. J. Brant (Atlanta, 2005) xv-xvii; “Riding the Waves of Passion: an Exploration of an Image of Appetities in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses,” Lectiones Scrupulosae, ed., W. Keulen (Groninigen, 2006) 28-41, with Silvia Montiglio; “Aspects of the Ancient Novel and the Nature of its Narrative,” Concentus ex Dissonis, ed., C. Santini (Naples, 2007) 645-57; “Narratives of Failure,” The Greek and Roman Novel: Parallel Readings, ed. M. Paschalis (Groniingen, 2007) 23-37; “International Conferences on the Ancient Novel (ICAN): the Intellectual Growth of an Idea, the Explosion of a Movement,” Ancient Narrative 10 (2012) 89-93; “Size Matters: It is the Little Things that Count in the Satyrica of Petronius," Collected Studies on the Roman Novel, ed. Marcos Carmignari (Cordorba, 2013) 53-63; “Thinking, Seeing, Narrating: Forms of Reflection," Compar(a)ison 33 (2015) 63-74: “The Small World of the Holy Man,”, Holy Men and Charlatans in the Ancient Novel, ed., Stelios Panayotakis (Groningen, 2015) 17-30; “The Autobiography of Encolpius: Reading the Satyrica as the Confessions of the First-Person Narrator,” The Power of Ancient Prose, ed., Thea Selliaas Thorsen (Berlin, 2018) 73-87; “Narrative and the Ancient Novel: the Human Imagination is Always a Form of Lying,” Literary Currents and Romantic Forms, ed., K. Chew (Groningen, 2019) 3-18; “A Brief Note on Euergetism, the Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri, and a New Inscription from Pompeii,” RhM 164 (2021) 237-9; “Beauty and Sex: From the Physical to the Textual,” Ἀντιγράψαι τῇ γραφῇ, ed., M. Cariou (Paris, 2020) 187-199; “Reevaluating and Repositioning the Historia Apollonii in View of the New Discovery of a Latin Palimpsest in the Library of St. Catherine’s Monastery Mount Sinai,” Ancient Narrative, forthcoming.

  • Author: Gareth Schmeling