Callirhoe (novel)  

From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia

(Redirected from Chaereas and Callirhoe)
Jump to: navigation, search

Related e

Wikipedia
Wiktionary
Shop


Featured:

Callirhoe

Chaereas and Callirhoe by Chariton may be understood as the first historical novel; it was later imitated by Xenophon of Ephesus and Heliodorus of Emesa, among others.

Chariton's novel exists in only one (unreliable) manuscript, from the thirteenth century. It was not published until the eighteenth century, and remained dismissed until the twentieth. It nevertheless gives insight into the development of ancient prose fiction.

See also

Other ancient Greek novelists:




Unless indicated otherwise, the text in this article is either based on Wikipedia article "Callirhoe (novel)" or another language Wikipedia page thereof used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License; or on research by Jahsonic and friends. See Art and Popular Culture's copyright notice.

Personal tools