Chariton of Aphrodisias and the Invention of the Greek Love Novel

by StefanTilg (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2010

  $197.39

  Questions about the origin of the Greek love novel - itself the precursor of the love novel in Europe - have intrigued scholars for centuries. Stefan Tilg proposes a new solution to this ancient puzzle by arguing for a personal inventor of the genre, Chariton of Aphrodisias, whose Narratives about Callirhoe, dates from the mid-first century AD.