Description
- Abstract:
- Ancient novels, represented by the so-called “ideal” Greek romances (Chariton’s Chaereas and Callirhoe, Xenophon’s Ephesiaca, Achilles Tatius’ Leucippe and Cleitophon, Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe, and Heliodorus’ Aethiopica) and also by the picaresque Latin narratives of Petronius’ Satyrica and Apuleius’ Metamorphoses as well as the Lucianic Onos, the Alexander Romance, the family romance of Apollonius King of Tyre, and an assortment of fragments, are incredibly diverse. What each member of this genre shares, aside from the extended prose format, is the polyphony of their repertoire. Epic, history, philosophy, tragedy, comedy, elegy –nothing is alien to the Greek or Latin novelist. The extent to which the ancient novelists interact, or do not interact, with preexisting genres varies widely. This project examines the ways in which four ancient novelists, Chariton, Heliodorus, Apuleius, and Petronius, utilized tragedy and the ancient traditions surrounding it in the shaping of their own work. Each in their own way adopted the character types, plots, themes, language, and devices of the stage, transformed them for their own purposes, and used them to create recognizable yet entirely new works in a different genre.
- Notes:
- Thesis (Ph. D.)--Brown University, 2017
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Citation
Yates, Jennifer Lewton,
"The Ancient Novels and the Tragic Tradition"
(2017).
Classics Theses and Dissertations.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://doi.org/10.7301/Z0GX491D
