Knowing Heliodorus : The Reception of the Aethiopica in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century England

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Carver, Robert Henry Fielding. (2019). Knowing Heliodorus : The Reception of the Aethiopica in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century England. In Re-Wiring the Ancient Novel, 2 Volume Set: Volume 1: Greek Novels, Volume 2: Roman Novels and Other Important Texts pp. 231-262 Barkhuis Publishing/University of Groningen Library.

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Authors	Carver, Robert Henry Fielding
Abstract	Joseph Hall’s rhetorical question, ‘What Schole-boy, what apprentice knows not HELIODORVS?’, is often taken at face value, as a definitive encapsulation of the Aethiopica ’s status in early modern England. 1 We notice that the vectors of this supposed knowledge are both horizontal (ubiquitous) and vertical (transcending or defying the norms of age and education, occupation and class). But when we look at the context of the question, Hall’s The honor of the married clergie (1620), some of those certainties begin to dissolve. Hall’s invocation of Heliodorus is polemical, part of a wider debate over the merits and demerits of a celibate priesthood.
Keywords	Heliodorus; Aethiopica; England; School
Page range	231-262
Year	01 Jan 2019
Book title	Re-Wiring the Ancient Novel, 2 Volume Set: Volume 1: Greek Novels, Volume 2: Roman Novels and Other Important Texts
Publisher	Barkhuis Publishing/University of Groningen Library
Place of publication	Netherlands
Edition	1
ISBN	978-9-492-44469-1
Open access	Published as non-open access
Research or scholarly	Scholarly
Publisher's version	License All rights reserved File Access Level Controlled
Output status	Published
Print	25 Jan 2019
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Deposited	17 Jan 2024
Additional information	Copyright © 2018 the authors.

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