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Shining castles and humans of metal/floral appearance ? metaphorical language in the Palaiologan romances Kallimachos and Velthandros
2019
About eight centuries after Heliodorus, the Greek novel resurfaced in the twelfth century, in Komnenian Byzantium, and again two centuries later under the Palaiologan dynasty. This latter literary revival was due to the political stability of the imperial Byzantine government, which promoted cultural production, rhetorical education, and patronage networks. Kallimachos and Velthandros, two Palaiologan romances presented as court literature, combine ancient and medieval tropes with rhetorical artistry to blur the boundaries between the artificial and the natural. Castles and objects made of precious metals thus resemble living, natural spaces, and human characters are portrayed in metallurgi…
Heliodorus Parthenopaeus: The "Aithiopika" in Baroque Naples
1998
L'articolo è frutto di un lavoro comune; i paragrafi 1, 3 e 6 sono stati redatti da Massimo Fusillo, i paragrafi 2, 4 e 5 da Clotilde Bertoni. Il lavoro analizza il "Teagene", poema epico di Giambattista Basile ispirato alle "Etiopiche" di Eliodoro, e prende in esame altre opere seicentesche legate al romanzo ellenistico. The article results from a common work: paragraphs 1, 3 and 6 have been written by Massimo Fusillo, paragraphs 2, 4 and 5 by Clotilde Bertoni. It analyzes "Teagene" an epic poem by Giambattista Basile, based on Heliodorus' Aethiopica, and it also examines some other works of the same period connected with th Hellenistic novel.