TY  - JOUR
SP  - 1
A1  - Tagliabue, Aldo
N2  - This article demonstrates that Cnemon?s story in Heliodorus? Aethiopica intertexts with
the novella of Deinias in Lucian?s Toxaris. The closeness of three textual parallels, along
with a subtle use of characters? names, proves that Heliodorus is deliberately recalling
Toxaris. The focus of this intertextuality is Chariclea, the courtesan of Deinias? story.
This immoral figure is a striking counterpart to the lustful Demaenete, the main character
of Cnemon?s story and the first immoral lover of the Aethiopica. At the same time,
the evocation by Heliodorus of a lustful woman who has the same name as the protagonist
Chariclea, paradoxically enriches the characterization of the latter as chaste.
Furthermore, this subtle evocation of Chariclea seems to have metaliterary implications
as well. In the Aethiopica Chariclea stands for the entire novel: Heliodorus appears
to define the nature of his text in opposition to Lucian?s Toxaris and to the different kind
of fiction it represents. Heliodorus? definition of his own novel by means of establishing
a contrast with other texts is an important function of his intertextuality with Imperial
literature and possibly sheds new light on the status of ancient fiction as a whole.
EP  - 23
VL  - online
TI  - Heliodorus' reading of Lucian's Toxaris
JF  - Mnemosyne
AV  - public
ID  - heidok23520
Y1  - 2015/01/01/
PB  - Brill
UR  - https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/23520/
ER  -