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224:) overawes crowds, like an earthly counterpart of Aphrodite's, as noted by Douglas Edwards. They are married, but when her many disappointed suitors successfully conspire to trick Chaereas into thinking she is unfaithful, he kicks her so hard that she falls over as if dead. There is a funeral, and she is shut up in a tomb, but then it turns out she was only in a coma, and wakes up in time to scare the pirates who have opened the tomb to rob it; they recover quickly and take her to sell as a slave in 197: 136:
to about AD 200. A variety of dating suggestions have been generated by analyzing Chariton's words. A date as late as the sixth century AD was suggested in the 19th century, before the discovery of the papyri, based on stylistic considerations, while A. D. Papanikolaou argued for the second half of
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Chariton's novel exists in only one (somewhat unreliable) manuscript, from the 13th century. It was not published until the 18th century, and remained dismissed until the twentieth. It nevertheless gives insight into the development of ancient prose fiction.
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Despite the liberties Chariton took with historical fact, he clearly aimed to place his story in a period well before his own lifetime. Tomas Hägg has argued that this choice of setting makes the work an important forerunner of the modern
688:. London: Penguin Classics, 2005. Print. In Satire 1 (lines 124-134), Persius suggests that those having a juvenile sense of humor and unsophisticated taste in art and literature should stick to "the law reports in the morning, and 228:, where her new master, Dionysius, falls in love with her and marries her, she being afraid to mention that she is already married (and pregnant by Chaereas). As a result, Dionysius believes Callirhoe's son to be his own. 170:, who died in AD 62; if this is Chariton's novel, then a relatively early date would be indicated. Regardless, Chariton probably wrote before the other Greek novelists whose works survive, making either his work or 1103: 158:. If the source is Plutarch, then a date after the first quarter of the 2nd century is indicated. There is a dismissive reference, however, to a work called 87:
and Chaereas to numerous heroes, both implicitly and explicitly. As the fiction takes place in the past, and historical figures interact with the plot,
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and the only one to make use of apparent historiographical features for background verisimilitude and structure, in conjunction with elements of
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Nothing is securely known of Chariton beyond what he states in his novel, which introduces him as "Chariton of Aphrodisias, secretary of the
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the first century BC in 1979. One study of Chariton's vocabulary favours a date in the late 1st century or early 2nd century AD.
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chosen to suit the romantic content of his writing, but both "Chariton" and "Athenagoras" occur as names on inscriptions from
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Douglas R. Edwards (Autumn 1994). "Defining the Web of Power in Asia Minor: The Novelist Chariton and His City Aphrodisias".
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suggests that the novel may have been written in the mid-1st century AD, making it the oldest surviving complete ancient
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and the most important political figure of Syracuse, thus setting the narrative in time and social milieu. Her beauty (
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James N. O'Sullivan, Xenophon of Ephesus, Berlin-New York 1995, pp. 145–170 (chapter on "Xenophon and Chariton").
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Ewen Bowie (2002). "The chronology of the earlier Greek novels since B.E. Perry: revisions and precisions".
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for thematic material, or perhaps directly on one of Plutarch's sources, an obscure mythographer, Paion of
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Two Novels from Ancient Greece: Chariton's Callirhoe and Xenophon of Ephesos' An Ephesian Story
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Perry, B. E. (1930). "Chariton and His Romance from a Literary-Historical Point of View".
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Edmund P. Cueva (Fall 1996). "Plutarch's Ariadne in Chariton's Chaereas and Callirhoe".
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Reardon, Bryan P. (1989). "Chariton: Chǣreas and Callirhoe". In Bryan P. Reardon (ed.).
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Consuelo Ruiz-Montero (1991). "Aspects of the Vocabulary of Chariton of Aphrodisias".
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Athenagoras". The name "Chariton", which means "man of graces", has been considered a
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Charitonis Aphrodisiensis De Chaerea et Callirhoe Amatoriarum Narrationum libri octo
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In literature, he is also known as Χαρίτων ὁ Ἀφροδισιεύς and Χαρίτων ὁ Ἀφροδίσιος.
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The latest possible date at which Chariton could have written is attested in
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Greek Identity and the Athenian Past in Chariton: The Romance of Empire
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Reardon, B. P. (1982). "Theme, Structure and Narrative in Chariton".
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The seeming-dead Callirhoe seems like Ariadne asleep on the shore at
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The story is set against a historical background of c. 400 BC. In
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Chariton of Aphrodisias and the Invention of the Greek Love Novel
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Chariton of Aphrodisias and the Invention of the Greek Love Novel
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A parallel is in some versions of the myth of abandoned Ariadne.
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The discovery of five separate fragments of Chariton's novel at
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B. P. Reardon (2003) . "Chariton". In Gareth Schmeling (ed.).
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De Callirhoe Narrationes Amatoriae Chariton Aphrodisiensis
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Edmund Cueva has argued that Chariton also depended on
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that contain fragments of his work, which can be dated
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Index

Chaereas
Chariton (disambiguation)
Aphrodisias
Greek
ancient Greek novel
Callirhoe
papyri
prose romance
Greek mythology
Aphrodite
Ariadne
historical novel
Xenophon of Ephesus
Heliodorus of Emesa
rhetor
pseudonym
Aphrodisias
papyri
paleographically
Plutarch
vita
Theseus
Amathus
Persius
Petronius
Satyricon
Callirhoe (novel)
P.Fay. 1
Syracuse
Peloponnesian War

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