The Representation of Slavery in the Greek Novel Resistance and Appropriation Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies Series
Auteur : Owens William M.
This volume offers the first comprehensive treatment of how the five canonical Greek novels represent slaves and slavery. In each novel, one or both elite protagonists are enslaved, and Owens explores the significance of the genre?s regular social degradation of these members of the elite.
Reading the novels in the context of social attitudes and stereotypes about slaves, Owens argues for an ideological division within the genre: the earlier novelists, Xenophon of Ephesus and Chariton, challenge and undermine elite stereotypes; the three later novelists, Longus, Achilles Tatius, and Heliodorus, affirm them. The critique of elite thinking about slavery in Xenophon and Chariton opens the possibility that these earlier authors and their readers included literate ex-slaves. The interests and needs of these authors and their readers shaped the emerging genre and not only made the protagonists? slavery a key motif but also made slavery itself a theme that helped define the genre.
The Representation of Slavery in the Greek Novel will be of interest not only to students of the ancient novel but also to anyone working on slavery in the ancient world.
Introduction: Degradation and Resistance 1. Ephesiaca: Enslavement and Folktale 2. Callirhoe: Narratives of Slavery Explicit and Implied, Told and Retold 3. Two Novels About Slavery 4. Daphnis and Chloe: Slavery as Nature and Art 5. Slavery and Literary Play in Leucippe and Clitophon 6. Aethiopica: Love and Slavery, Philosophy and the Novel Afterward: Conclusions Summarized and Two Points of Speculation
William M. Owens is Associate Professor of Classics at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio. His research focuses on the representation of social institutions, practices, and ideologies in ancient literature, in particular comedy and the novel.
Date de parution : 06-2022
15.6x23.4 cm
Date de parution : 12-2019
15.6x23.4 cm
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Mots-clés :
Young Man; Conflicted Social Identities; slavery and the greek novel; Xenophon’s Ephesiaca; Xenophon of Ephesus’ Ephesiaca; Metaphorical Slavery; Ephesiaca; Servus Callidus; slavery in Ephesiaca; Real Slave; Chariton’s Callirhoe; Good Life; slavery in Callirhoe; Servitium Amoris; Callirhoe; Fabula Palliata; Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe; Hidden Transcripts; daphnis and Chloe; 130s BCE; slavery in daphnis and chloe; Brer Rabbit; Achilles Tatius’ Leucippe and Clitophon; Greek Novels; slavery in Leucippe and Clitophon; Nanny Goat; Leucippe and Clitophon; Potiphar’s Wife; Heliodorus’ Aethiopica; Achilles Tatius; Aethiopica; Explicit Narrative; slavery in Aethiopica; Birth Tokens; slavery in greek literature; Implicit Narrative; Xenophon of Ephesus; Magna Graecia; Chariton; Master Slave Relations; longus; Slave Characters; Heliodorus; Slave Attendant; Enslavement and Folktale in ancient world; Holy Man; classical literature and slavery; Habrocomes; Habrocomes' tutor; slaves in classical literature; slaves in greek literature; slaves in the ancient world; Chaereas; readership for greek literature; greek literature of the roman empire; greek literature under rome; ex-slaves and greek literature; ex-slaves and roman literature; ex-slaves in the roman empire; slavery and roman literature; Calasiris; Theagenes and Charicleia; Demaenete and Cnemon; Arsace and Theagenes; elite protagonists; literary genre; protagonists' slavery; canonical Greek novels