What is it about?
Calligone 'born beautiful' is a lost Greek novel set on the Black Sea. The protagonist is shipwrecked in the country of the Amazons, gains the trust of these warrior women, whom she helps to organise their army against the Scythians. The play also includes romantic elements. One of the episodes takes place in the military camp: the protagonist enters her tent, sword in hand, cursing her lover Erasinus and the goddess Artemis. The character could be inspired by Hypsicrates, the last wife of Mithridates VI, as well as by the Ukrainian women of antiquity, in whose tombs arrows, bows and other objects related to horse training (4th-3rd century BC) have been found.
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Why is it important?
A good testimony to the origins of the historical novel in Greece
Perspectives
Relations between historical reality and literary fiction
María Paz López Martínez
Universidad de Alicante
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This page is a summary of: The Pontic Princess Calligone, the Queen Themisto, and the Amazons in the Black Sea (P.Oxy. 5355 and PSI 981), Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete, July 2022, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/apf-2022-0004.
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