Aphrodite, prose and poetry : Chaereas and Callirhoe and the echoes of archaic erotic imagery
This article studies the noticeable echoes of archaic erotic imagery we hear in Chaereas and Callirhoe, written by Chariton of Aphrodisias (mid-1st century CE?), as it considers the way by which the novel presents the goddess Aphrodite and desire itself. It aims at emphasizing that the attention to...
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| Format: | article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication Date: | 2022 |
| Country: | Brasil |
| Institution: | Sociedade Brasileira de Estudos Clássicos (SBEC) |
| Repository: | Classica (Sociedade Brasileira de Estudos Clássicos. Online) |
| Language: | Portuguese |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:oai.classica.emnuvens.com.br:article/1016 |
| Online Access: | https://revista.classica.org.br/classica/article/view/1016 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Afrodite desejo poesia arcaica romance grego Aphrodite desire archaic poetry Greek novel |
| Summary: | This article studies the noticeable echoes of archaic erotic imagery we hear in Chaereas and Callirhoe, written by Chariton of Aphrodisias (mid-1st century CE?), as it considers the way by which the novel presents the goddess Aphrodite and desire itself. It aims at emphasizing that the attention to the poetry in which that traditional imagery is found allows for a productive and richer reading of Chariton’s late prose, for the similarities that will not go unnoticed, and nor will the differences through which a different conception of érōs is expressed. |
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