Plot, Embodiment, and the Materiality of the Book with Chariton’s Callirhoe
When I prepared my lecture on the early Greek novel Callirhoe by Chariton for our undergraduate students in Comparative Literature a couple of years ago, I was wondering how to bring this text, probably about two thousand years old, to my students. While re-reading the novel it struck me that Chariton actually provided a feasible framework in the text itself.