Achilleus Tatios (novelist)
Achilles Tatios ( Greek Ἀχιλλεὺς Τάτιος; Latin Achilles Tatius ) was a Greek writer, possibly from Alexandria .
At the end of the 2nd century AD he wrote a romance novel in eight books Leukippe and Kleitophon (Τὰ κατὰ Λευκίππην καὶ Κλειτοφῶντα Ta kata Leukippen kai Kleitophonta , "The story of Leukippe and Kleitophon"), in which, as usual in Greek novels , lovers become separated and can only finally reunite after adventure and danger. The work, written in a deliberately simple style, is one of the more literarily valuable of its genre.
It has come down to us in 23 manuscripts. Twelve of these have the full text. The earliest tradition is a papyrus from the 2nd century, a Vaticanus comes from the 12th century, and most of the codices that have survived come from the 16th century.
expenditure
- Achilles Tatios, Leukippe and Kleitophon . Introduced, translated and explained by Karl Plepelits . Library of Greek Literature , edited by Peter Wirth and Wilhelm Gessel , Volume 11, Stuttgart 1980
- Stephen Gaselee: Achilles Tatius . Text and English translation. Heinemann, London 1917 ( digitized version ). New edition: Loeb Classical Library, London / Cambridge 1947.
- Rowland Smith: The Loves of Clitopho and Leucippe. In: The Greek Romances. London 1889 ( digitized ).
- Ebbe Vilborg: Achilles Tatius. Leucippe and Clitophon (= Studia Graeca et Latina Gothoburgensia Volume 1). Almqvist & Wiksell, Göteborg 1955 (with commentary).
- Jean-Philippe Garnaud: Achille Tatios. Le Roman de Leucippé et Clitophon (= Collection Budé). Paris 1991, Ndr. 2010
literature
- Florian Hurka: Achilleus Tatios. Leukippe and Kleitophon. In: Christine Walde (Ed.): The reception of ancient literature. Kulturhistorisches Werklexikon (= Der Neue Pauly . Supplements. Volume 7). Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2010, ISBN 978-3-476-02034-5 , Sp. 1-6.
- Manfred Landfester : Achilleus Tatios [1] from Alexandreia. In: Manfred Landfester (ed.): History of ancient texts. Lexicon of authors and works (= Der Neue Pauly . Supplements. Volume 2). Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2007, ISBN 978-3-476-02030-7 , p. 1 f.
- Nicola Nina Schmid-Dümmler: Achilleus Tatios, “Leukippe und Kleitophon”. Rhetoric in the service of seduction . (= BAC - Bochum Classical Studies Colloquium, Volume 101). Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2018, ISBN 978-3-86821-747-6 .
- James N. O'Sullivan: A Lexicon to Achilles Tatius (= studies of ancient literature and history. Volume 18). de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1980.
Web links
- Literature by and about Achilleus Tatios in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Achilles Tatios |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Achilles Tatius; Αχιλλευς Τατιος |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Greek writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 2nd century |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd century |