The ΣΩΦΡΟΣΥΝΗ of Persinna and the Romantic Strategy of Heliodorus' Aethiopica

Anderson, Michael J.

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“…Cf. also Anderson (1997), 318, on Persinna's letter as 'at once a collage of erotic themes and a chaste narration of chaste activity '. 73.…”

Section: Conclusion: Persinna's Novelmentioning

confidence: 99%

THISBE'S NOVEL: WRITING ROMANCE IN HELIODORUS’AETHIOPICA

Olsen

2022

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Lauren Groff's Fates and Furies thoroughly unravels its own ‘marriage plot’. Narrating the romance of the golden Lancelot (‘Lotto’) and the mysterious Mathilde from each protagonist's perspective in turn, Groff's novel exposes countless cracks in the decades-long relationship between a pair of twenty-first-century college sweethearts. The second half of the novel is particularly haunted by a sadomasochistic and dubiously consensual relationship between Mathilde and a wealthy older man upon whom she has become financially dependent, a subplot that includes vivid and erotic descriptions of sexual humiliation and subjugation. Groff is certainly not the only modern author to explicitly and self-consciously interrogate the terms of the romantic novel as such: Jeffrey Eugenides’ The Marriage Plot announces its generic play in its title.

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“…Cf. also Anderson (1997), 318, on Persinna's letter as 'at once a collage of erotic themes and a chaste narration of chaste activity '. 73.…”

Section: Conclusion: Persinna's Novelmentioning

confidence: 99%

THISBE'S NOVEL: WRITING ROMANCE IN HELIODORUS’AETHIOPICA

Olsen

2022

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Maculate Conception: Sexual Ideology and Creative Authority in Heliodorus' Aethiopica

Olsen¹

2012

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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 include the conception story—despite its disruptive potential—privileges the plot-generating creation of Charicleia over and above a monolithic adherence to sexual and romantic ideology.

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Gender and Ethnicity in Heliodorus’ Aithiopika

Lye¹

2016

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This essay examines gender and ethnicity as performative categories in the ancient Greek novel. In the Arsake episode of the Aithiopika , Heliodorus questions classical Greek stereotypes of male versus female and Greek versus non-Greek by demonstrating the fluidity of markers for these categories. Thus, characters can act more or less “manly” or “Greek,” depending on their immediate situations and regardless of actual gender or ethnic identity. I argue that the novel presents gender as the more fixed of the two categories, but that every character operates within a wide range of behaviors, often contradicting the reader’s expectations.

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The ΣΩΦΡΟΣΥΝΗ of Persinna and the Romantic Strategy of Heliodorus' Aethiopica

Cited by 5 publications

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THISBE'S NOVEL: WRITING ROMANCE IN HELIODORUS’AETHIOPICA

THISBE'S NOVEL: WRITING ROMANCE IN HELIODORUS’AETHIOPICA

Maculate Conception: Sexual Ideology and Creative Authority in Heliodorus' Aethiopica

Gender and Ethnicity in Heliodorus’ Aithiopika

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