Les lieux communs du roman : : stéréotypes grecs d'aventure et d'amour / / par Françoise Létoublon.

• Superior document: Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum, 123
• Author: Létoublon, Françoise, 1946-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, New York : : E.J. Brill,, 1993.
• Year of Publication: 1993
• Language: French
• Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements 123.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (vii, 248 pages) :; illustrations
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Le roman grec et les lieux communs /; Romanesque, réalité et fiction /; Le roman grec et son influence /; Lʼespace et la population du roman: lieux et lieux communs /; Le “roman dʼamour” /; Avant la rencontre amoureuse: les topoi de présentation et dʼidentité des héros /; Les Topoi de lʼamour /; Lʼamour vient du texte ou la littérature en miroir dans le roman /; Les obstacles de lʼamour /; Comment communiquer? /; Les bijoux du style /; Index des passages cités /; Index des personnages des romans grecs /; Index des œuvres et auteurs cités /; Index des auteurs critiques cités /; Bibliographie /; Supplements to Mnemosyne.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 240-248) and indexes.
• ISBN: 9004329196
• ISSN: 0169-8958
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: par Françoise Létoublon.

The author uses an extensive study of the five Greek novels preserved by tradition since Roman times (Chariton, Chaireas and Callirhoe , Longus, Daphnis and Chloe , Xenophon of Ephesus, Ephesiaca , Achilles Tatius, Leucippe and Clitophon , Heliodorus, Ethiopica ) to show how the novel form, from its origins, has been based upon the repetition of commonplaces, τόποι, which allows an interplay with the reader. The commonest of these commonplaces, love-Eros, provides the plot of the five novels, in an order which is itself topical: meeting and love at first sight, wounds of love and lovesickness, lovers separated, lovers put to the test by the sea and by pirates, lovers reunited. The heroes of Greek novels, always young, good-looking and well-born (even if their identities are left unclear), allow for easy reader identification. From Xenophon of Ephesus (the most primitive form of the novel) to the Ethiopica (a true work of art), the Greek novel had already explored all the main narrative possibilities of the genre.