"“Her knees and heart were unstrung,” as Homer says, for she did not know to whom she was being married. Immediately she became speechless, and a blackness spread over her eyes and she nearly fainted. To those that saw her, this appeared to be her modesty. But as soon as her maids had dressed her, the crowd at her doors went away, and the parents of the bridegroom brought him to the girl. And so Chaereas ran forward and kissed her, and Callirhoe, recognizing her lover, became more stately and lovely than ever, as a flickering lamp again flares up when oil is poured in."
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Book I, 1 (tr. Warren E. Blake); cp. Odyssey, IV, 703
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Callirhoe (novel)
Callirhoe (or Chaereas and Callirhoe (Ancient Greek: Τῶν περὶ Χαιρέαν καὶ Καλλιρρόην), this being an alternate and slightly less well attested title in the manuscript tradition) is an Ancient Greek novel by Chariton, that exists in one somewhat unreliable manuscript from the 13th century. It was not published until the 18th century and remained dismissed until the twentieth. It nevertheless gives insight into the development of ancient prose fiction and Hellenic culture within the Roman Empire.
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