A purposeful infection : lovesickness and gender in Heliodorus

This thesis is the first to undertake a detailed examination of lovesickness within Heliodorus’ Aethiopika. The ancient Greek novels share a central narrative pattern of a young, beautiful, heterosexual couple falling in love, then surviving a series of adventures, kidnappings, and separations, befo...

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Main Author: Simpson, Breanna E. M.
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/61334