Iphigenia Revisited: Heliodorus’ Aethiopica and the ‘Der Tod und das Mädchen’ Pattern

Lefteratou, Anna

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“…Iphigenia returns to Greece with her goddess to remain a priestess of Artemis, never to wed. Charicleia will also be a priestess, but her marriage to Theagenes, descendant of Achilles, provides the happy ending missing in the story of Iphigenia, who was originally lured to Aulis for sacrifice on the pretext of nuptials with that greatest of Homeric heroes. See now Lefteratou (2013).…”

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Return to the Land of the Sun: in Homage to Jean-Pierre Vernant (1914–2007)

Zeitlin¹

2020

Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics

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FROMA I. ZEITLIN proem This piece was was originally commissioned for an issue of the literary revue, Europe (N° 964-965, 2009) devoted to the scholarly career of the renowned French Hellenist, Jean-Pierre Vernant. Member of the Collège de France, and founder of the so-called "École de Paris" whose work from the 1960s on transformed our approaches to the literature, society, and anthropology of ancient Greece. As I looked now to publish my original text in English, I discovered that I was by no means alone in my desire once again to honor his memory and assess his continuing impact on our field. To my surprise, I found a recent volume, entitled Relire Vernant, published in 2018 that included, among others, a collective piece organized by Oswyn Murray on Vernant's influence, both professional and personal, in the English-speaking world (United States and Britain), to which I contributed my own evaluations. 1 In the present text that follows, it was not my intention to offer any comprehensive overview of Vernant's work. Rather I chose a single text, Heliodorus' novel, the Ethiopiaka (Ethiopian Tale). This late Greek narrative tour-de-force, dated probably to the 4 th century ce, was, to my knowledge, never mentioned by Vernant in his very sizeable oeuvre. All the more tempting therefore to revisit Vernant's ideas about myth, religion, society, art, and the question of Hellenism, more generally, from the standpoint of the vastly different worldview of late antiquity.

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Egypt, Ethiopia, and the Greek Novel

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2024

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This book is about Egypt, ancient Ethiopia (a territory located in modern Sudan, known to ancient Egyptians as Kush and modern specialists as Nubia), and the ancient Greek romance novels. Of the five Greek novels that survive in their entirety, Egypt and/or Ethiopia play an important role in four: Chariton’s Chaereas and Callirhoe (first century ce), Xenophon of Ephesus’ An Ephesian Tale (first/second century ce), Achilles Tatius’ Leucippe and Clitophon (second century ce), and Heliodorus’ An Ethiopian Story (third or fourth century ce). Employing approaches from literary studies, Classics, and Egyptology, the book’s argument turns on two concepts: representation and resistance. On the one hand, it demonstrates that the novels develop an image of Egypt and Ethiopia that is in close dialogue with Greco-Roman ethnographic tradition. On the other, it argues that this depiction regularly figures Egypt and Ethiopia as sites of resistance, revolt, and rebellion against—and also political, cultural, and religious alternatives to—a series of dominant imperial powers in the region, from the Persians to the Romans. This argument enriches our understanding of the texts’ relationship with the real and imagined frontiers of Roman political, military, and intellectual power. Further, it raises literary and cultural historical questions about the interrelation of humans and their environment and what we might call, after Simon Schama, the topographies of cultural identity in the Roman Empire.

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Egypt, Ethiopia, and the Greek Novel

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Iphigenia Revisited: Heliodorus’ Aethiopica and the ‘Der Tod und das Mädchen’ Pattern

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