Articles

The Anabasis of Chaereas And Callirhoe

Authors

  • Stephen M. Trzaskoma

Abstract

This paper presents a sustained reading of Chariton’s Callirhoe against the background of Xenophon’s Anabasis, demonstrating that Chariton engages intertextually with that source not only in the portion of the narrative surrounding Chaereas’ military adventures, as has been recognized in the past, but throughout the novel. Chariton constructs his narrative as separate anabases of his main characters followed by a joint katabasis, all the while engaging with the themes, structure, details, language, emotions, and ethical concerns of Xenophon’s military memoir to a degree that has not been acknowledged.

Stephen M. Trzaskoma is Associate Professor of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of New Hampshire. His scholarship focuses on Greek and Roman mythography and prose fiction. His translations of Chariton and Xenophon of Ephesus appeared recently as Two Novels from Ancient Greece (Indianapolis and Cambridge, Mass. 2010), and he has published several articles on the ancient novelists.

Published

2011-12-01

Issue

2011: AN 9

Section

Articles
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