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Chariton of Aphrodisias and the Invention of the Greek Love Novel

By Stefan Tilg

Book information

Year
2010
ISBN
0199576947, 9780199576944
LCC
PA3948.C32 T55 2010
Open Library ID
OL24410762M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2241800 bytes)
Pages
360\356
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

The best known variety of the ancient novel - sometimes identified with the ancient novel tout court - is the Greek love novel. The question of its origins has intrigued scholars for centuries and has been the focus of a great deal of research. Stefan Tilg proposes a new solution to this ancient puzzle by arguing for a personal inventor of the genre, Chariton of Aphrodisias, who wrote the first Greek (and, with that, the first European) love novel, Narratives about Callirhoe, in the mid-first century AD. Tilg's conclusion is drawn on the basis of two converging lines of argument, one from literary history, another from Chariton's poetics, and will shed fresh light upon the reception of Latin literature in the Greek world.

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