Crafting characters
Subtitle: heroes and heroines in the ancient Greek novel
By: Koen de Temmerman
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Oxford, United Kingdom; New York, NY, United States of America
Language: eng
Number of pages: 395
ISBN-13: 9780199686148
Subjects: Charakterisierung; History and criticism; Heldin; Hellenistic Greek poetry; Hellenistic Greek literature; Held; Roman; Griechisch
Description: Analyzes the characterization of the protagonists in the five extant, so-called 'ideal' Greek novels of the first few centuries C.E., using the conceptual couples of typification/individuation, idealistic/realistic characterization, and static/dynamic character to show their complexity.
Notes: Based on author's doctoral thesis--Ghent University, 2006.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-375) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : character, techniques of characterization, and the ancient Greek novel; title: Chariton; title: Xenophon of Ephesus; title: Achilles Tatius; title: Longus; title: Heliodorus.