Mythological Narratives

The Bold and Faithful Heroines of the Greek Novel

Anna Lefteratou

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2017
• eBook ISBN: 9783110527513
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Ancient & Classical Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

This book is about the bold, beautiful, and faithful heroines of the Greek novels and their mythical models, such as Iphigenia, Phaedra, Penelope, and Helen. The novels manipulate readerly expectations through a complex web of mythical variants and constantly negotiate their adventure and erotic plot with that of traditional myths becoming, thus, part of the imperial mythical revision to which they add the prospect of a happy ending.

Index rerum/nominum notabiliorum

• Achilles
• and Chaereas 1, 2
• and Theagenes 1
• Aesop 1, 2
• Agamemnon
• and Hydaspes 1, 2, 3
• Alcamenes
• and Meroebus 1
• Alcestis 1, 2, 3, 4
• Alexander the Great 1, 2, 3
• and Chaereas 1, 2
• and Hydaspes 1, 2
• Alexiou, Margaret 1, 2
• Andromeda 1, 2, 3, 4 (painting)
• Anthia
• and Callirhoe 1, 2
• and Chariclea’s Ephesiaca 1
• and Leucippe 1, 2
• and Chariclea 1
• Anticlea and Laertes
• and Anthia’s and Habrocomes’ parents 1
• Antigone 1, 2, 3, 4
• and Anthia 1
• Apelles painting The Slander 1
• Aphrodite
• and Callirhoe’s / Melite’s beauty 1
• and erotic hybris/vengeance 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (sweet laughing), 6, passim.
• and visual representations 1, 2, 3, 4
• Ares and Aphrodite 1 (Mars and Venus)
• Archon of Egypt 1
• Aristotle 1
• and catharsis 1
• and Iphigenia 1
• and recognition 1, passim
• Arsace
• and Demaenete 1
• and Manto 1
• Artaxerxes
• as reader 1
• Artemis
• and Anthia 1, 132-134
• and Callirhoe 1
• and Chariclea 1 (zakoros)
• and Clitophon 1
• and Leucippe 1
• and Melite 1 (Ephesia and bees)
• Barthes, Roland 1
• Burkert, Walter 1, 2
• Calame, Claude 1
• Calasiris
• and Hippolytus 1
• and Proteus 1
• vs. Cnemon’s and Charicles’ readings 1
• Calligone
• and Leucippe 1
• the novel 1, 2
• Callirhoe
• and Chloe 1 (the apple), 2 (the beauty)
• and Demaenete 1 (the kick)
• and dubious chastity 1
• and Melite 1, 2, 3
• Callisthenes
• and Calligone 1
• and Chaereas 1
• Cephallonia
• (and Ithaca) 1
• Chaereas
• and Hydaspes 1
• as reader 1
• Chariclea
• and Anthia or Leucippe 1
• and Habrocomes 1, 2
• and Leucippe 1, 2, 3, 4
• vs. Theagenes’ misreadings 1
• Charicles as reader of the novel’s telos 1
• Charition 1, 2
• Chariton and Philostratus 1 (love by hearsay)
• chastity oaths 1 (Melite’s tablet), 2, 3, 4, 5
• Christianity 1, 2, 3,,4, 5, passim
• Chrysion
• as reader 1
• Clitophon
• and Habrocomes 1, 2
• Clytemnestra
• and Persinna 1
• Cnemon
• as novelistic hero 1
• as reader 1
• Cognitive Studies 1, 2, 3
• Concordia 1, 2 (less than ideal reader)
• Conte, Gian Biagio 1
• Cybele
• as the nurse 1
• Delphi
• the Oracle 1
• the Sacred Wars 1
• Demeter and Isis (female wanderers) 1
• Dionysius
• and Perilaus 1, 2
• as reader 1
• ekphrasis 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
• embarkation (as adventure motif) 1, 2, 3, 4
• empathy 1, 2, 3
• erotic symmetry (D. Konstan) 1
• folktale 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
• AT 68.1, Princess offered to rescuer 1, 2
• AT 300, The dragon slayer 1, 2
• AT 300, Princess marries her savior 1
• AT 301, Abducted bride 1, 2
• AT 313, Girl as helper 1
• AT 318, The faithless wife, The Tale of the Two Brothers 1, 2
• AT 400, Quest for the lost bride 1 AT 500-559, Supernatural helpers 2
• AT 590, Slandered youth saves a princess 1
• AT 709, Snow White 1, 2
• AT 712, Tale of Crescentia/The calumniated wife 1
• AT 830, The boastful deer hunter 1
• AT 888, The faithful wife
• AT 926A, motif J1171, Judgment by testing love 1
• AT 926, The clever judge/Judgement of Solomon 1
• AT 953, motif K527.2 and1, Substitution by a another human 2
• AT 974, The home coming husband 1, 2
• AT 990, Scheintod 1, 2
• AT 1418, Motif K1513, The Wife’s equivocal Oath. 1
• AT 1510, The Ephesian widow 1, 2, 3
• AT b11.10, A virgin sacrificed 1
• AT F451.5.1.2, The compassionate executioner 1
• AT H310, Suitors’ test for supernatural wife 1
• AT H331.4, Fight with the father in law 1
• AT H480, Wife’s tests, chastity tests 1
• AT K1557.1, Husband discovers paramours love letter 1
• AT K1911, Substituted bride (the false bride) 1
• AT K2120, Slandered chaste man 1
• AT motif A1545.2, Substitution by animal 1
• AT motif K512.4, magic potions 1
• AT motif K1218.1, AT 1730, The chaste wife entraps the suitors 1
• AT motif K2111, Potiphar’s Wife 1
• AT motif R 10 AT 1, 2, 3, 4,
• Abduction of the princess 1
• AT S31, The Stepmother 1
• AT T68.1, Princess as a prize to her rescuer 1
• Habrocomes
• and Theagenes 1, 2
• happy ending 6,9, 1, 2, 3, passim.
• Helen
• among the Captive Women and Callirhoe 1
• and Achilles (love through hearsay) 1
• and Anthia 1, 2
• and Artemis Orthia 1
• and Callirhoe 1, passim
• and Callirhoe’s suitors 1
• and Chariclea 1, 2, passim
• and Chariclea Teichoscopia 1
• and Leucippe 1
• and Leucippe/Lacaena 1
• and Lycaenion 1
• and Peitho 1, 2, 3
• and Stateira (returned to Artaxerxes) 1
• Aphrodite’s apple and Chloe 1
• as stepmother (Phaedra) to Corythus 1
• and Judgement of Paris 1, 2, 3,
• 1, passim
• and elopement with Paris 1
• Greek vs. barbarian 1, 2
• in Egypt 1, 2, passim
• in Egypt, Tyre, Sidon the novel 1, 2, 3
• in the Cypria 1
• in the Homerkritik 1
• on Leuce 1, 2
• Helen’s suitors 1
• Helen/Iphigenia
• embarkation 1 2
• Helen-Nephele
• and Calligone 1
• and Callirhoe 1
• and Chariclea in the cave 1
• and Leucippe 1
• Hippolytus
• and Chaereas’ hybris 1
• and Chariclea’s chastity 1
• and Charicles as Theseus 1
• and Clitophon 1...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Preface and Acknowledgements
• Contents
• Introduction
• The bold and virginal: Iphigenia
• The bold and unfaithful: Phaedra
• The bold and the faithful: Penelope and Helen
• Epilogue
• Bibliography
• Index locorum notabiliorum
• Index rerum/nominum notabiliorum