2012
DOI: 10.1353/ajp.2012.0017
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Maculate Conception: Sexual Ideology and Creative Authority in Heliodorus' Aethiopica

Abstract: This article reconsiders the role of sexual and romantic ideology in Heliodorus' Aethiopica , focusing particularly on Persinna's account of her daughter's conception. I contend that the triangulated sexual dynamics of the conception deviate from the binary, symmetrical romantic model embodied by Charicleia and Theagenes, complicating the novel's apparent norms. I suggest that the sexual multiplicity of Charicleia's conception mirrors the narrative complexity of the Aethiopica , as the authorial decision to in… Show more

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“…75 Working in a slightly different vein, Virginia Burrus observes that Charicleia is 'a queer kind 72. Olsen (2012). Cf.…”
Section: Conclusion: Persinna's Novelmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…75 Working in a slightly different vein, Virginia Burrus observes that Charicleia is 'a queer kind 72. Olsen (2012). Cf.…”
Section: Conclusion: Persinna's Novelmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…He thus figures both Thisbe and her text as speaking subjects, endowing Thisbe with a form of agency that transcends death and simultaneously imagining the inanimate 17. On Charicleia's conception, see further Reeve (1989), Hilton (1998), andOlsen (2012). 18.…”
Section: Bodies and Textsmentioning
confidence: 99%
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