Chariton of Aphrodisias and the Invention of the Greek Love Novel
by
Stefan Tilg
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Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0199576947
ISBN-13
9780199576944
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Imprint
Oxford University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 6th, 2010
Print length
356 Pages
Weight
578 grams
Dimensions
22.00 x 14.50 x 2.60 cms
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Questions about the origin of the Greek love novel - itself the precursor of the love novel in Europe - have intrigued scholars for centuries. Stefan Tilg proposes a new solution to this ancient puzzle by arguing for a personal inventor of the genre, Chariton of Aphrodisias, whose Narratives about Callirhoe, dates from the mid-first century AD.
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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