Abstract

REDONDO MOYANO, Elena. False Speech in the Female Characters in the Greek Novel. Nova tellus [online]. 2012, vol.30, n.1, pp.77-103. ISSN 0185-3058.

This paper examines how the female characters in Greek novels have recourse to false speech. Based on an analysis of female speech in Attic tragedy, which was one of the literary genres that exerted the greatest influence on speech parts of the novels, a study is conducted to find out which characters in the novel employ false speech and their purpose in doing so. Two types of false speech were identified: the defensive one, used by the female protagonists or by secondary characters of similar social and ideological status, and the offensive one, used by characters of lower rank, and blameworthy morality within the ideological loveʼs framework publicized through the novel.

Keywords : Greek novel; female speech; false speech; Chariton; Xenophon of Ephesus; Achilles Tatius; Heliodorus of Emesa; Greek tragedy; rhetoric.

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