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Essays on the Greek Romances

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A

Achilles, 11, 20, 35, 78, 90, 115, 173

Achilles Tatius, 10, 11, 12, 13, 62, 63, 95-118, 120, 196, 197, 198

Clitophon and Leucippe, 95-118, list of characters, 97-98

Aeschines, 147

Aesculapius, 155, 187

Aethiopica, 61-94

Africa, 186, 187

Alcinous, 79, 173

Alexander Romance, 11, 12

Alexandria, 45, 46, 47, 95, 99, 101, 117

Allinson, F. G., ix, 172, 175

Amyot, Jacques, 120, 143

Andromeda, 75, 93, 115

Antioch, 144

Antonius Diogenes, The Wonderful Things beyond Thule, 12, 145, 170, 171, 172

Apollonius of Tyre, 12

Apollonius of Tyana, 62, 88, 89

Apparent deaths, 100, 103-4, 196

Anthia, 12, 38-60, 93

Antinous, 92

Antoninus Pius, 187

Aphrodite, 8, 10, 16, 20, 21, 26, 28, 31, 32, 33, 51, 103, 107, 110, 196

Apis, 52, 55

Apollo, 42, 51, 55, 67, 68, 78, 82, 86, 87, 88, 111, 196

Apollonius Rhodius, 4

Apuleius, viii, 6, 13, 54, 145, 186-201

Metamorphoses, 176, 180, 181, 186-99

Cupid and Psyche, 186, 189, 191, 192, 193, 194, 196

Apologia, 187, 195

Florida, 187

Plato and his Doctrine, 187

The God of Socrates, 187

Aradus, 19, 20, 32, 35

204

Ares, 44, 51, 53, 183

Aristaenetus, 108

Aristides, author of Milesian Tales, 5, 194

Aristides, author of Panegyric on Rome, 200

Aristippus, 169

Aristophanes, 113, 149, 166, 167, 172

Aristotle, 153

Armenia, 156

Artemis, 40, 42, 51, 53, 103, 111, 112, 113, 196

Asia Minor, 14, 15, 53, 144

Astarte, 115

Athenagoras, 15

Athens, 77, 151, 153, 155, 186

Augustine, Saint, 187

Augustus, 40, 155

Aurelian, 62

B

Babylon, 10, 20, 26, 29, 32, 33, 34

Bardèche, Maurice, 59

Berytus, 98, 101

Bessa, 70, 77

Bias, 27

Bion, 135

Bithynia, 158

Blake, Warren E., viii, 14

Bonaparte, Elisa, 142

Bonaparte, Napoleon, 142

Borden, Fanny, ix

Bornecque, H., 6

Burton, William, 96

Byron, Lord G. G. N., 141

Byzantium, 98, 101, 105, 195

C

Calderini, Aristide, 4, 6, 13, 35, 36, 51, 54, 63, 76, 80, 88, 91, 95, 135, 136, 137

205

Callimachus, 3

Callirhoe, 12, 14-37, 57, 93, 97

Callisthenes, pseudo-, Alexander Romance, 11, 12

Calydon, 84

Calypso, 169, 170, 173, 175

Cappadocia, 45, 54

Caria, 15, 20

Carthage, 186, 187

Cenchreae, 190

Chaereas, 12, 14-37, 57, 93, 97

Charicles, 1, 12

Chariton, viii, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14-37, 40, 57, 58, 62, 63, 90, 91, 95, 96, 108, 112, 196, 199

Chaereas and Callirhoe, 14-37, list of characters, 15-16

Chassang, A., 3

Chauvin, V., 3

Chemmis, 66, 70, 77, 85

Chloe, 12, 93, 119-43

Christianity, 61, 62, 95, 96, 144, 154, 156

Cilicia, 40, 41, 44, 54

Cinema, 58, 59, 60, 83, 84, 101

Clarendon Press, viii

Claros, 42, 51, 55

Clitophon, 12, 93, 95-118

Colonna, Aristides, 61

Constantinus Manasses, Aristander and Callithea, 12

Controversiae, 6, 36

Conversation, use of, 27, 84, 101, 114, 133

Conybeare, F. C., 88

Corinth, 162, 190, 195

Cornelius Gallus, 5

Cornelius Sisenna, 5

Courier, Paul Louis, 137, 141-43

Court-room scenes, 18, 20, 23, 26, 36, 55, 59, 85, 100, 101, 111, 112-14, 133, 134, 137, 148, 149, 174

Croiset, Alfred, 6

Croiset, Maurice, 6, 146, 149, 157, 158, 160, 162, 175, 182, 185

Ctesias, 164, 165, 171, 173

Cumont, F., 157

Cyprus, 32

Cyrano de Bergerac, 175

Cyrus the Great, 16

D

Dalmeyda, G., 13, 40, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 128, 132, 135, 137, 138

206

Daphnis, 12, 93, 119-43

Daphnis and Chloe, 119-43

Daye, Angell, 120

Deaths, apparent, 17, 29, 45, 84, 97, 99, 100, 103, 104

Declamationes, 36

Delphi, 66, 69, 76, 77, 78, 82, 84, 86, 87, 88

Democritus, 157

Demosthenes, 141, 147, 150

Descriptions, use of, 29, 84, 114-17, 136, 138, 139, 174, 195, 196

Diana, 64, 67, 86

Diocletian, 118

Diogenes, 154, 162, 169

Dionysus, 114, 126, 129, 131, 134, 139, 155, 166, 171

Disney, Walt, 166

Dosicles and Rhodanthe, 12

Dreams, 18, 28, 29, 43, 50, 55, 59, 73, 84, 85, 86, 87, 89, 103, 111, 122, 129, 196

Drusilla, 1, 12

Dunlop, J., 3

D’Urfé, Honoré, 140

E

Edmonds, J. M., viii, 120, 137

Egypt, 15, 16, 40, 41, 43, 45, 46, 47, 54, 64, 66, 67, 69, 77, 82, 86, 87, 145, 156, 158, 160, 195

Elephantine, 74, 77

Emesa, 61, 62, 88

Empedocles, 153, 155

Ending, happy, 2, 30, 49, 50, 55, 60, 93, 104, 128, 133, 189, 192, 193, 196

Ephesiaca, by Xenophon of Ephesus, 38-60

Ephesus, 5, 40, 41, 42, 45, 47, 48, 49, 53, 54, 99, 100, 101, 103, 105, 106, 111, 112

Epicurus, 153, 158, 169

Epiphanies, 67, 73, 84, 85, 86, 87, 103, 125, 196, 201

Eros, 10, 28, 42, 49, 51, 105, 110, 115, 122, 124, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 136, 139, 140, 192, 198

Ethiopia, 11, 46, 47, 73, 77, 85, 86, 87, 88

Ethiopians, 68, 72, 73, 74, 77, 79, 80, 87, 89

Euphrates, 27, 31

Eupolis, 149

207

Euripides, 58, 79, 108

Eustathius, Hysmine and Hysminias, 12

Exposures, 66, 68, 75, 122, 127, 128, 137

F

Fortune, 1, 19, 20, 31, 32, 36, 109, 111, 137, 187, 190, 192, 193, 196

Fowler, H. W. and F. G., ix, 146, 160, 161, 163, 164

Furia, Francesco, 141, 142

G

Gaselee, Stephen, 6, 7, 95, 96, 101, 198

Gaul, 144, 148

Gildersleeve, Basil L., 146, 158, 165, 166

Gove, P. B., 164

Greece, 3, 82, 88, 89, 141, 144, 148, 153, 156, 195, 200

Greek Romances, re-dating, 1-13

chronological list, 12

influence of elegiac poetry, 137

influence of New Attic Comedy, 112, 137, 146, 149

influence of Old Attic Comedy, 112, 146, 149

influence of the Pastoral, 119-43, 196

influence of rhetorical schools, 36, 37, 84, 85, 90, 91, 112, 114, 137-38, 149

likeness to drama, 26, 36, 37, 58, 77, 79, 80, 82, 83, 84, 91, 137

likeness to epic, 35-36, 58, 77, 78, 79, 83, 84, 90, 91, 112

Greene, Robert, 97, 140

Gulliver’s Travels, 164

Gymnosophists, 74, 79, 81, 82, 89, 93, 196

H

Habrocomes, 12, 38-60, 93

Habrocomes and Anthia, 38-60

Hadrian, 40, 92

Harmon, A. M., 147, 153, 155, 157, 158, 160, 165, 182

Harvard University Press, viii

Heffelbower, G. F., 6

Helen, 21, 34, 78, 110, 169, 173, 175

208

Heliodorus, 3, 10, 12, 13, 61-94, 96, 196

Aethiopica or Theagenes and Chariclea, 61-94, list of characters, 63

Heliogabalus, 62

Helios, 46, 48, 52, 61, 62, 79, 87, 88

Hercules, 111, 115, 147, 155, 166, 171

Hermes, 69, 87, 148, 151, 153, 174

Herodes Atticus, 156

Herodotus, 4, 36, 77, 165, 171, 172, 173

Hesiod, 112, 174

Highet, Gilbert, 199

Hime, H. W. L., 171

Hippolytus, 20, 58, 64, 79, 82

Homer, 33, 34, 37, 57, 78, 90, 92, 94, 112, 159, 161, 164, 169, 172, 173, 174

Hooker, Blanche Ferry, v

Horace, 136, 151

Householder, F. W., 171

Huet, P. D., 3

Hysmine and Hysminias, 12

I

Iamblichus, Babyloniaca or Rhodanes and Sinonis, 12

Iambulus, 164, 171

Iliad, 4, 33, 34, 35, 78, 90, 91

India, 41, 46, 154

Ionia, 148

Isis, 42, 45, 47, 51, 53, 54, 64, 66, 71, 82, 86, 87, 88, 99, 187, 190, 191, 192, 194, 195, 196, 198

Italy, 46, 47, 48, 54, 58, 141, 144, 148, 200

J

Jacobs, Lewis, 59

Jerram, C. S., 171

Jupiter, 189, 194

Juvenal, 200

L

Lang, Andrew, 175

Lavagnini, Bruno, 2, 3, 4

Lesbos, 122, 131

Letters, 18, 22, 23, 27, 28, 44, 55, 56, 65, 66, 68, 75, 79, 81, 84, 85, 102, 106, 175

Love-Letters of Aristaenetus, 108

209

Leucippe, 12, 93, 95-118

Loeb, The Loeb Classical Library, viii, 6, 95, 120, 137, 147, 198

Longmans, Green and Co., ix

Longus, viii, 12, 13, 196, 198

Daphnis and Chloe, 119-43, list of characters, 121

Lucian, viii, ix, 12, 13, 144-85, 187, 197, 199, 200

on oratory and rhetoric, 148-50

on philosophies, 150-54

autobiography in works, 146-62

The Dream, 146-47

The Double Indictment, 148-49

The Professor of Oratory, 149-50

Nigrinus, 150-51

Philosophies for Sale, 151-53

The Resurrected or The Fisherman, 153-54

The End of Peregrinus, 154-57

Alexander of Abonoteichus, 151, 157-58, 181

Parasites for Pay, 158-60

Apology, 160-62

How History should be Written, 162-64

True History, 145, 164-76

Lucius or Ass, 12, 13, 145, 176-81, 188, 191, 192, 194

Metamorphoses, 12, 176, 180, 181, 191, 192, 194

Toxaris, 182-85

Dialogues of the Gods, 194

Lucius, 54, 187, 188, 189, 190, 191, 194, 196

Lucius Verus, 162

Lumb, T. W., 61, 62, 63, 77, 78, 80, 82, 83, 84, 88, 92

Lydia, 28

Lyly, John, 97

M

Macedonia, 144, 178

Madaura, 186, 191, 192

Magic, 70, 87, 88, 89, 110, 111, 177, 180, 187-89, 196

tests of chastity, 100, 107, 110, 111, 114

Maillon, J., 61, 62, 63, 76, 77, 78, 80, 82, 83, 84, 88, 89, 92

Marcus Aurelius, 162, 187, 199, 200

Memphis, 46, 52, 53, 55, 71, 72, 73, 77, 78

210

Menippus, 146, 149, 154, 161

Meroe, 74, 76

Michigan, University Press, ix

Milesian Tales, 3, 5, 36, 190, 194

Miletus, 5, 20, 26, 32, 36

Miracles, 73, 87, 89

Moore, J. Leverett, vi

Moschus, 135

Myths, use of, 11, 35, 78, 110, 114, 115, 116, 125, 126, 130, 135, 139, 140

Mytilene, 119, 122, 124, 128, 129, 131

N

Narrator, use of, 101, 164, 177, 180, 187, 192, 197-198

Neoptolemus, 66, 67, 87

Neo-Pythagoreanism, 62, 88, 196

Nicephorus Callistus, 61, 62

Nicetas, Eugenianus, Charicles and Drusilla, 1, 12

Nicoll, Allerdyce, 59

Nile, 46, 52, 64, 66, 69, 74, 77, 84, 87, 93, 117

Ninus Romance, 6, 7-12, 16, 36, 199

Novelle, 3, 4, 5

Nymphs, 121, 122, 123, 124, 125, 126, 127, 129, 130, 131, 133, 134, 136, 139, 196

O

Oaths, 1, 7, 10, 28, 42, 58, 84, 102, 133, 138

Odysseus, 78, 86, 90, 169, 170, 173, 174, 175

Odyssey, 4, 34, 35, 78, 90, 164, 165, 174

Olympia, 154, 156, 163

Oracles, 42, 51, 52, 55, 56, 73, 76, 84, 85, 111, 196, 201

Osiris, 191

Ovid, 137

P

Palatine Anthology, 97

Palmyra, 62

Pan, 111, 114, 119, 121, 124, 125, 127, 128, 129, 130, 131, 134, 136, 139, 196

Papyri, evidence of, 14, 96, 182, 184, 185

211

Parthenius, 3, 5, 6

Pater, Walter, 187

Patrae, 176, 177, 180, 195

Patroclus, 35, 78, 91

Pelusium, 46, 99, 101

Penelope, 86, 110, 174

Perry, B. E., ix, 176, 180, 181

Perseus, 93, 115

Persia, 16, 92

Petronius, 199

Phaedra, 58, 64, 79, 82, 110

Phidias, 146-47

Philae, 74, 77

Philippus of Amphipolis, 3

Phillimore, J. S., ix, 98, 101, 118

Philomela, 110, 114, 116

Philostratus, 6, 88, 89

Phoenicia, 46

Photius, 2, 12, 61, 62, 97, 137, 171, 180

Pilon, Edmond, 143

Plato, 150, 151, 153, 159, 160, 161, 169, 172, 187

Pliny the Younger, 200

Pompeii, 115

Pontus, 158

Prescott, H. W., 199

Priene, 27

Purser, L. C., 194

Pythagoras, 88

Q

Quintilian, pseudo-, 6, 36

R

Rabelais, François, 175

Ramsay, Allan, 140

Rattenbury, R. M., viii, 3, 6, 7, 10, 11, 61, 62, 63, 77, 78, 80, 82, 83, 84, 87, 88, 92, 96, 108, 184

Recognitions, 68, 69, 71, 75, 79, 80, 87, 127, 128, 131, 137

Résumés, 30, 55, 58, 68, 78, 84, 100, 104, 107

Rhadamanthus, 173, 174, 175

Rhodes, 42, 48, 52, 54

Richardson, Samuel, 97

Riefstahl, Hermann, 192, 193, 195, 197, 198, 199

Risus, 188

Rohde, Erwin, 2, 3, 5, 6, 13, 55, 171

Rome, 88, 141, 151, 186, 195, 199, 200

Rostovtzeff, M., ix, 182, 185, 199-200

212

S

Sabrata, 187

Saint-Pierre, Bernardin de, 140

Samos, 52, 54

Samosata, 144

Sannazaro, Jacopo, 140

Sappho, 136, 137

Satyricon, 199

Schmid, W., 3, 35

Scott, Sir Walter, 97

Scythians, 182, 183, 184, 185

Second Sophistry, 2, 3, 5

Selene, 79-80

Seneca the Elder, 6, 36

Sesonchosis, 11

Sesostris, 11

Severus, Alexander, 62

Shakespeare, 38, 58, 140

Romeo and Juliet, 58

The Winter’s Tale, 140

Sicily, 19, 38, 39, 47, 54, 68, 195

Sidney, Sir Philip, 96

Sidon, 99, 101, 115

Smith, Rowland, 67, 73, 90, 94

Socrates, 147, 153, 169

Socrates, (V cent. A.D.), 61, 62

Soliloquies, 27, 55, 84, 85, 102, 133-34, 197

Sparta, 39

Stesichorus, 173

Sub-plot, 77, 81, 100, 101, 104

Suidas, 3, 40, 82, 95, 96, 144, 145

Susa, 154

Swift, Jonathan, 175

Sybaris, 5

Syene, 73, 74, 75, 77, 81, 84

Syracuse, 14, 16, 19, 20, 21, 22, 25, 26, 27, 29, 30, 32, 47

Syria, 44, 54, 62, 146

Syrinx, 125, 135, 140

T

Tacitus, 200

Taras, 41, 47, 50

Tarsus, 44

Tasso, Torquatus, 140

Tauromenium, 47, 48

Tefnut, 11

Theagenes, 10, 12

Theagenes and Chariclea, 12, 61-94

213

Theocritus, 119, 135, 136, 141

Theodorus, Prodromus, Dosicles and Rhodanthe, 12

Thermopylae, 19

Thessaly, 61, 177, 188

Thomas Magister, 112

Thornley, George, viii, 120

Thucydides, 163, 172

Todd, F. A., ix, 96, 119, 140

Trajan, 200

Tricca, 61, 62, 96

Troy, 78

Tyre, 20, 43, 50, 54, 98, 101, 105, 111

V

Vassar College, iii, vi, 186

Venus, 189, 193, 194, 196

Vergil, 33, 136, 137

Voltaire, François M. A., 175

W

Wagram, 141

Walden, J. W. H., 91

214

Whibley, L., 4, 5

Wolff, S. L., ix, 13, 80, 97, 117, 140

Works of art, 51, 56, 75, 93, 114, 115-16, 121, 122, 128, 130, 134, 146-47, 186, 201

X

Xenophon, 4, 147

Xenophon of Antioch, 3

Xenophon of Cyprus, 3

Xenophon of Ephesus, 3, 12, 13, 38-60, 76, 92, 196, 199

Ephesiaca or Habrocomes and Anthia, 38-60, list of characters, 41

Z

Zacynthos, 68

Zenobia, 62

Zeus, 34, 148

Zeus Casius, 99, 115

Zimmermann, F., 182

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