Dafnis y Cloe: rusticitas versus urbanitas
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https://doi.org/10.14409/op.2023.1.e0004Keywords:
Longus, Daphnis and Chloe, progymnasmata, synkrisisAbstract
Longus wrote his novel, Daphnis and Chloe, with an obvious intention of being part of the genre, of which we retain other examples. Despite this, it is necessary to note the singularities that his novel has in comparison with the other examples. The aim of this paper is to highlight these singularities and try to justify them, always following, hypothetically, which is the purpose of the author. From the point of view of the narratology, he is aware, as is usual in the genre, of the training in the προγυμνάσματα received by the πεπαιδευμένοι in the schools of rhetors and sophists: narration, description, ethopeia, etc. However, Longus conspicuously uses another less common exercise, σύγκρισις, so his entire story revolves around parallels or comparisons, both when explaining the birth and the essence of the reciprocal loving feeling between the couple of the main characters, and when he defends, on the one hand, the most natural aspect of that feeling, i.e. love in rural environments and, on the other, when he compares to it the demands that urban conventions have established to legitimize the union of a heterosexual couple and, consequently, the setting–upof a new family. Longus’ σύγκρισις ἀγροῦ καὶ πόλεως focus on love, and surely gives him the opportunity to go beyond the simple presentation of a love story, seasoned with adventures until its consummation.
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