| authors Heliodorus and Achilles Tatius), which became available in the later sixteenth century, with their typically exotic locales, their star-crossed young lovers, shipwrecks, kidnappings, seductions, bloody murders, and suicides. In the ancient Greek novel Ethiopica, written by Heliodorus sometime in the fourth century A. 18) Similar architectural features can be found in Raphael's frescoes in the rooms (stanze) of the papal apartment in the Vatican Palace, especially in the Expulsion of Heliodorus from the Temple and the Coronation of Charlemagne. |
