Xenophon’s ‘Round Trip’
Geography as Narrative Consistency in the Ephesiaka
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20041034 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Andrea Capra (0000-0003-4799-7920, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Pages | 17-28 |
| Publication date | 2017-12-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Cultural Crossroads in the Ancient Novel (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | De Gruyter (PUBLISHER • DE) |
| DOI | 10.1515/9781501503986-003 |
| OpenAlex | W2773473048 |
| ISBN | 9781501503986 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
A careful examination of Xenophon's geography reveals a circular pattern and a neat if rudimentary technique of entrelacement. Such an arrangement (i. e. the characters' 'round trip') squares well with Xenophon's orali(istic) style and accounts for its open-ended structure: far from being a shortcoming, this feature is best interpreted in the light of ancient poetics, and helps us to understand a number of alleged problems in this novel, such as the difference in style between the first (extra-circular, in fact) scene and the frantic adventures forming the core of the story. The circular pattern thus reinforces the case against the epitome theory in books 2-5
Adventure · Art · Art history · Epitome · Geography · Geometry · Literature · Narrative · Poetics · Classical Antiquity Studies · Computer Science · Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies · History · Linguistics and language evolution · Mathematics
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |