Chariton of Aphrodisias and the Invention of the Greek Love Novel

Inbunden, Engelska, 2010

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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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Utgivningsdatum2010-05-06
Mått148 x 224 x 26 mm
Vikt579 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor356
FörlagOUP OXFORD
ISBN9780199576944

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Tilg has produced a fascinating and refreshing study of Chariton and the Greek love novel, utilizing a broad range of source material ... any classicist who has an interest in the Greek love novels will find Tilgs contribution invaluable, even if the reader is not well-acquainted with the Greek romances. When all the evidence presented in this well-researched, well-documented, and clearly written account is considered, Tilg successfully answers one of the most important questions about the invention and the inventor of the Greek love novel.