Chariton of Aphrodisias and the Invention of the Greek Love Novel - Tilg, Stefan (Research Fellow of the Swiss National Science Foundation)

Questions about the origin of the Greek love novel - itself the precursor of the love novel in Europe - have intrigued scholars for centuries. Stefan Tilg proposes a new solution to this ancient puzzle by arguing for a personal inventor of the genre, Chariton of Aphrodisias, whose Narratives about Callirhoe, dates from the mid-first century AD.