Xenophon’s Ephesiaca: A Paraliterary Love-Story from the Ancient WorldBarkhuis, 31 okt 2017 - 252 pagina's After many decades of neglect, the last forty years have seen a renewed scholarly appreciation of the literary value of the Greek novel. Within this renaissance of interest, four monographs have been published to date which focus on individual novels; I refer to the specialist studies of Achilles Tatius by Morales and Laplace and those of Chariton of Aphrodisias by Smith and Tilg. This book adds to this short list and takes as its singular focus Xenophon's Ephesiaca. Among the five fully extant Greek novels, the Ephesiaca occupies the position of being an anomaly, since scholars have conventionally considered it to be either a poorly written text or an epitome of a more sophisticated lost original. This monograph challenges this view by arguing that the author of the Ephesiaca is a competent writer in artistic control of his text, insofar as his work has a coherent and emplotted focus on the protagonists' progression in love and also includes references to earlier texts of the classical canon, not least Homer's Odyssey and the Platonic dialogues on Love. At the same time, the Ephesiaca exhibits stylistically an overall simplicity, contains many repetitions and engages with other texts via a thematic, rather than a pointed, type of intertextuality; these and other features make this text different from the other extant Greek novels. This book explains this difference with the help of Couégnas' view of 'paraliterature, ' a term that refers not to its status as 'non-literature' but rather to literature of a different kind, that is simple, action-oriented, and entertaining. By offering a definition of the Ephesiaca as a paraliterary narrative, this monograph sheds new light on this novel and its position within the Greek novelistic corpus, whilst also offering a more nuanced understanding of intertextuality and paraliterature. |
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Achilles Tatius action-filled Aegialeus Aethiopica analysis ancient novels andreia Anthia and Habrocomes Aphrodite’s Apollo’s oracle Apsyrtus argued Big Five Book Bürger Callirhoe chapter characterization characters Chariton Charmides Cleisthenes Corymbus Couégnas dialogues discussion Egypt Egyptian Ephe Ephesiaca Ephesian Ephesus episode eromenos Eros erotic fidelity Finally focus focused Greek novels Habro Habrocomes and Anthia Hägg Heliodorus highlights Hippothous Homeric Hyperanthes Imperial interpretation intertextuality Isis Isis and Osiris Jones journey Konstan literary literature Longus love-story Manto mention Moreover Morgan motif mutual narrator Nile O’Sullivan Odyssean Odyssey Osiris Overall paraliterature passage Penelope Penelope’s Perilaus Platonic progression in love prolepsis prophecy protago protagonists readers reading recalls reference relationship repetitions reunion night Rhodes role scene scholars sexual siaca sophisticated story suggests Temmerman 2014 textual Thelxinoe thematic intertextuality themes Tiresias toig Töv trans Whitmarsh 2011 Xenophon Xenophon of Ephesus Yūp δὲ καὶ τὴν τὸν