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The Greek novel occupies a special place in the debate on gender in antiquityforcing us to ask why the female protagonists are such strong and positivecharacters. This book rejects the hypothesis of a largely female readershipand also sees a problem in ascribing this pattern to the reflection of ablanket improvement in the status of women. Katharine Haynes shows that thestrong heroines are best understood not as an undistorted mirror on an improvedsocial reality but as a type of constructed feminine.The book offers a wealth of fascinating insights into the kaleidoscopic worldof male and female in the Greek novel which will inform and illuminate thereader whatever the text being studied. The related issues of ethnicity andselfdefinition also explored will be of interest for all those working onancient fiction or the culture of the Second Sophistic «
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