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In Byzantine references to ancient romances no definition of the literary genre is given.1 Thus , there is no a priori standard which would help us to classify a late - Byzantine ( narrative ) text as a romance .
In Byzantine references to ancient romances no definition of the literary genre is given.1 Thus , there is no a priori standard which would help us to classify a late - Byzantine ( narrative ) text as a romance .
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The group of the four twelfthcentury ( = Komnenian ) erotic romances , for example , is well defined by its imitation of ancient models , such as the Leukippe and Kleitophon of Achilles Tatios and the Aithiopica of Heliodoros .
The group of the four twelfthcentury ( = Komnenian ) erotic romances , for example , is well defined by its imitation of ancient models , such as the Leukippe and Kleitophon of Achilles Tatios and the Aithiopica of Heliodoros .
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Her definition is primarily based on a selection of texts which continue to a relatively large extent the tradition of ancient and twelfth - century Byzantine erotic romance . If we accept this definition for the fourteenth- and ...
Her definition is primarily based on a selection of texts which continue to a relatively large extent the tradition of ancient and twelfth - century Byzantine erotic romance . If we accept this definition for the fourteenth- and ...
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