Achilles Tatius manifests a real taste for the description of suffering, either in the narrative itself or in the descriptions of works of art with which it is studded. Sometimes, indeed, he enjoys mixing beauty and terror, for example in the evocation of the fright of Leucippus at the arrival of Thersander, or in the description of the painting of Evanthes representing the agony of Prometheus; sometimes he describes with realism the suffering of a secondary character, like the lover of Clinias, presents in an ekphrasis a scene of brutality marked by eroticism, such as the sacrifice of the enchained Andromeda, or goes as far as suggesting a rape scene through a mother’s dream, when he is not describing it more coarsely through a painting; s...
"Roman tragedy" : from a literary point of view the association of that name with that adjective is ...
International audienceAccording to rhetorical treatises, metaphors and similes are to be handled wit...
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Achille Tatius n’imite pas systématiquement les poètes hellénistiques, mais il est parfois proche d’...
Examined here, through analysis of the use of words from the family of sôphrôn by the Greek novelist...
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Achilles Tatius gives an important place to religion in his novel. He uses it as a structural elemen...
In the romance of Achilles Tatius, the story is very often taken over by speeches of which it is the...
Tatius montre une attention toute particulière portée à l’expression d’un désir, qu’il soit masculin...
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One of Artemis’ roles is to protect teenagers as they become adults, making sure Aphrodite, when the...
Achille Tatius. At the beginning of Achilles Tatius' novel (II, 19-23), the appearance of a characte...
"Roman tragedy" : from a literary point of view the association of that name with that adjective is ...
International audienceAccording to rhetorical treatises, metaphors and similes are to be handled wit...
The novel of Chariton offers a good example of the transformation of a hero following his tribulatio...
The novel of Achilles Tatius, Leucippus and Clitophon, is known for the particular role played by th...
In an outstanding article, A.M.G. McLeod discussed the narrative of the madness of Leucippus, its de...
Although the romance of Achilles Tatius is concerned with vision (betrayed, manipulated, in love), i...
Achille Tatius n’imite pas systématiquement les poètes hellénistiques, mais il est parfois proche d’...
Examined here, through analysis of the use of words from the family of sôphrôn by the Greek novelist...
Achille Tatius insère dans son roman Leucippé et Clitophon un jeu sur la forme des tragédies classiq...
Achilles Tatius gives an important place to religion in his novel. He uses it as a structural elemen...
In the romance of Achilles Tatius, the story is very often taken over by speeches of which it is the...
Tatius montre une attention toute particulière portée à l’expression d’un désir, qu’il soit masculin...
Euripide construit sa pièce autour des réactions d’Hécube face à un savoir atroce, qu’elle refuse et...
One of Artemis’ roles is to protect teenagers as they become adults, making sure Aphrodite, when the...
Achille Tatius. At the beginning of Achilles Tatius' novel (II, 19-23), the appearance of a characte...
"Roman tragedy" : from a literary point of view the association of that name with that adjective is ...
International audienceAccording to rhetorical treatises, metaphors and similes are to be handled wit...
The novel of Chariton offers a good example of the transformation of a hero following his tribulatio...