

The court of Rufus himself, by then (A.D. NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII.] (finance commissioner) (Verginius?) Rufus to It!), since Philostratus' first imperial sophist is Nicetes,Īlready prominent in Smyrna when Nero referred his dispute with a [TEXT Second sophistic as defined by Philostratus (who, after all, invented 75:Īs far as I know no papyrologist would support an early 1st century A.D.ĭate for our papyrus text, far less the 1st century B.C. Now, at any rate, papyrologists are saying ca. This statement seems to elide the views of literary historians and Sophistic, the period of renewed Greek literary activityĭuring the second and early third centuries A.D. Rohde that the Greek romances were a product of the Second ThisĬhronology annihilated the then prevailing view of Papyrologists have established that fragments A and B were On the basis of this terminus ante quem, as well as on theīasis of palaeography and the author's literary style, Of the Greek novels, Bryan Reardon's Collected Ancient Greek I quote Gerald Sandy, in the Anglophone bible Most scholars guess 'early', and in any case earlier How much earlier? Here we run out of evidence, and have to start Other known papyrus of the Ninus, fragment C, from Oxyrhynchus (PSIġ305), described by Stephens as 'assignable also to the last half 100, and was most probablyĬomposed earlier than ca. Possibly have been composed later than A.D. 60-90, (3)Īnd is assigned by Susan Stephens to ca. The hand is comparable to others dated to A.D. Is earlier than the tax documents written on its verso and theseĭocuments are of the year A.D. Movement of writing, and instead chose to use the verso (where theįibres ran vertically) the Chariton text on the recto of P. Which the fibres ran horizontally, the recto, somewhat easing the With fragments A and B) is half a century earlier: unless its writerīroke the regular habit of first using a roll of papyrus on the side on Terminus ante quem given by the principal Ninus papyrus (P. 150: theseĪre the dates of the Michaelides papyrus of Chariton and of the Berlinįragments (P. (1)įor Chariton (2) and for Metiochus and Parthenope we are given aįirm terminus ante quem by papyri, in each case of ca. Location of the genesis of the Greek novels. I then add some observations on theĭates of Antonius Diogenes and Achilles Tatius, and on the geographical The texts at issue are the Ninus romance, theĬhaereas and Callirhoe of Chariton, the Ephesiaca of Xenophon, and the This paper first revisits the problem of the chronology of theĮarly Greek novels. APA style: The chronology of the earlier Greek novels since B.E.Perry: revisions and precisions." Retrieved from The chronology of the earlier Greek novels since B.E.
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