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Crafting Characters - Heroes and Heroines in the Ancient Greek Novel (Hardcover)
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Crafting Characters - Heroes and Heroines in the Ancient Greek Novel (Hardcover)
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The oldest European novels were written in ancient Greek during the
first few centuries of the Common Era. Despite the gold rush
towards these novels in the last two decades and the resurgence of
interest in representations of character in literary studies, and
Classical studies in particular, no volume has yet been devoted to
exploring character and characterization in the ancient Greek
novels. This study analyses the characterization of the
protagonists in the five extant, so-called 'ideal' Greek novels
(those of Chariton, Xenophon of Ephesus, Achilles Tatius, Longus,
and Heliodorus). De Temmerman offers close readings of techniques
of characterization used in each novel and combines modern-mainly,
but not exclusively, structuralist-narratology and ancient
rhetoric. He argues that three conceptual couples central to
ancient theory of character, typification/individuation,
idealistic/realistic characterization, and static/dynamic
character, construct character in these narratives more
ambiguously, more elusively, and in more complex ways than has so
far been realized. Throughout the different chapters, it also
becomes clear how intimately presentations of character are
intertwined with self-portrayal and performance of the self.
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