Peculiarities of the non-Greek world in Heliodorus’ Aethiopica
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2009
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Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza
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Abstract
All that was non-Greek, strange, and exotic regarding people and their environment was also
always a point of interest in Greek literature. That interest got a new stimulus in the Hellenistic
times, and was still vivid at the end of Antiquity, and in the novel, as well. As an example we may
mention the Ethiopian Story of Heliodorus, and his novel is the main point of interest of this article.
I discuss in it some characteristic places, that show the non-Greek world, its variety and peculiarities.
They refer to the nature and its phenomena, to the world of plants and animals, and to the
customs of various nations, mostly from the area of Egypt, and Ethiopia. In conclusion, I pay attention
to the superiority of Greek world in Heliodorus’ novel in comparison with non-Greek.
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Greek world, non-Greek world, Heliodorus, Ethiopian Story, ancient novel
Citation
Symbolae Philologorum Posnaniensium, 2009, nr XIX, pp. 135-141
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978-83-232-2153-1