In:The Reality of Women in the Universe of the Ancient Novel
Edited by María Paz López Martínez, Carlos Sánchez-Moreno Ellart and Ana Belén Zaera García
[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature 40] 2023
► pp. 374–381
Chapter 23Semejanzas y diferencias entre las heroínas de la novela griega antigua y
en la tradición sánscrita del Ramayana
Published online: 1 December 2023
https://doi.org/10.1075/ivitra.40.23bal
https://doi.org/10.1075/ivitra.40.23bal
Abstract
In this paper, I present the common context of Kallirhoe
in Charito of Aphrodisias’ Kallirhoe with Sita,
Rama’s wife in the Ramayana. The ancient Greek novel and
the Sanskrit epic share several passages with Greek novel: the marriage,
maybe an adultery, the lost of the husband or lover, the abduction by
another man and the slanders from other women or citizens that marks the
moral of the moment, the rumours that shake the marriage or relationship or
the fight for power. But everything ends happily because the power of their
love.
Keywords: Kallirrhoe, Chereas, Rama, Sita, Greek novel, Ramayana
Article outline
- 1.Características esenciales de la novela griega
- 2.Rasgos principales de Calírroe (Calírroe)
y Sita (Ramayana)
- 2.1Calírroe
- 2.2Sita
- 3.Comparación de los personajes femeninos de ambas obras
- 3.1La castidad
- 3.2La nobleza (εὐγένεια)
- 3.3La inexperiencia (ἀπειρία)
- 3.4La confianza
- 3.5El matrimonio frustrado
- 3.6La ambigüedad moral
- 3.7La divinización
- 4.Conclusiones
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