The addressee-ship of ancient Greek novels: portraying pictures, debunking myths

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  • Marc Gandarillas University of Florida

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1344/AFAM2021.11.1.1

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ancient Greek literature, Ancient Greece, ancient Greek novel, literary addressees, novelistic genre readership.

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This paper delves into the question of the potential addresses of ancient Greek novels. After shedding some light on the matter (based on ancient sources which account for the sociocultural underpinnings of the new genre), a classification is established in an attempt to provide a deeper understanding of alleged homogeneity in readership. The entire bibliography demonstrates a discontinuation in the conception prevalent decades ago, which, based on subjective and anachronistic interpretations, would find reinforcement in the silence of ancient sources. To make matters more intricate, the surviving information regarding how the novel was viewed in ancient times appears not to point to a prestigious status thereof. All things considered, should these presumptions alone lead us to consider the novel as a low-quality genre in terms of literary and stylistic standards? Ancient Greek novel might well be one of those cases in which literary or cultural creations have called for reassessment and revaluation several centuries following their conception.

 

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2021-07-29

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Gandarillas, M. “The Addressee-Ship of Ancient Greek Novels: Portraying Pictures, Debunking Myths”. Anuari De Filologia. Antiqua Et Mediaeualia, vol. 1, no. 11, July 2021, pp. 1-24, doi:10.1344/AFAM2021.11.1.1.

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