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Chariton
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Chariton (lived 2nd century)

Greek romance writer, born at Aphrodisias in Caria. His Loves of Chaereas and Callirrhoe, some episodes of which are historical, is set at the time of the Peloponnesian War.



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were either fantastic--Lucian's The Golden Ass tells of a man who turns into a donkey and back into a man--or implausible romantic adventures, such as Chariton's Chaereas and Callirhoe.
It is what distinguishes the Satyricon, say, or the Golden Ass from Chaereas and Callirhoe, Daphnis and Chloe, or Theagenes and Chariclea, The Scarlet Letter from Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina.
It is what distinguishes the Satyricon, say, or the Golden Ass from Chaereas and Callirhoe, Daphnis and Chloe, or Theagenes and Chariclea, The Scarlet Letter from Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina, its philosophical, technical, and aesthetic ramifications are obvious, as are their inter-linkages.
 
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