Four Byzantine Novels
Four Byzantine Novels Constantinople in the mid-twelfth century saw the composition of the first sustained fictional narratives in the European world - novels - since late antiquity. These novels are…
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Four Byzantine Novels
Constantinople in the mid-twelfth century saw the composition of the first sustained fictional narratives in the European world - novels - since late antiquity. These novels are perhaps the most attractive, as well as the most unexpected, literary products of the Byzantine millennium. Four members of the Byzantine intelligentsia produced for the entertainment of their colleagues, their aristocratic patrons, and not least themselves, pastiches in verse and prose of the romantic tales of Achilles Tatius and Heliodorus.
This is regrettable since they antedate by several decades the works of Chr�tien de Troyes, the French father of the European novel. More than one of the four novels translated here was well known in Renaissance Europe, but all have been largely neglected by later generations of readers and scholars as insipid and derivative eroticism. This Byzantine phase in the
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