Believable lies and implausible truths : negotiating late antique concepts of fiction in Heliodorus’s Aithiopika
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- Claire Jackson (UGent)
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- Abstract
- Despite the long debate over whether it was composed in the third or fourth century C.E., Heliodorus's Aithiopika has usually been understood through the imperial literary contexts which characterize earlier novels. This article inverts this perspective to explore instead how the novel fits into contemporary late antique considerations about fiction. By reading the Aithiopika against late-fourth and early-fifth century discussions of falsehood and plausibility found in Augustine and Gregory of Nyssa, this article argues that the Aithiopika not only reworks classical models for reading fiction, but also illuminates late antique concerns about fiction, falsehood, and belief.
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- ERCNovelSaints, Heliodorus, Aithiopika, Augustine, Gregory of Nyssa, ACHILLES-TATIUS, RAPE, DIFFERENCE, LUCRETIA, PLATO
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-8682755
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- Jackson, Claire. “Believable Lies and Implausible Truths : Negotiating Late Antique Concepts of Fiction in Heliodorus’s Aithiopika.” TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN PHILOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION, vol. 151, no. 1, 2021, pp. 203–35, doi:10.1353/apa.2021.0007.
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- Jackson, C. (2021). Believable lies and implausible truths : negotiating late antique concepts of fiction in Heliodorus’s Aithiopika. TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN PHILOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION, 151(1), 203–235. https://doi.org/10.1353/apa.2021.0007
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- Jackson, Claire. 2021. “Believable Lies and Implausible Truths : Negotiating Late Antique Concepts of Fiction in Heliodorus’s Aithiopika.” TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN PHILOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION 151 (1): 203–35. https://doi.org/10.1353/apa.2021.0007.
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- Jackson, Claire. 2021. “Believable Lies and Implausible Truths : Negotiating Late Antique Concepts of Fiction in Heliodorus’s Aithiopika.” TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN PHILOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION 151 (1): 203–235. doi:10.1353/apa.2021.0007.
- Vancouver
- 1.Jackson C. Believable lies and implausible truths : negotiating late antique concepts of fiction in Heliodorus’s Aithiopika. TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN PHILOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION. 2021;151(1):203–35.
- IEEE
- [1]C. Jackson, “Believable lies and implausible truths : negotiating late antique concepts of fiction in Heliodorus’s Aithiopika,” TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN PHILOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION, vol. 151, no. 1, pp. 203–235, 2021.
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