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I begin with Longus – my tables 1, 2 and 3 – because for Longus one has the systematic study by Valley as a starting point. The first five tabulate words in three novelists, Longus, Achilles Tatius, and Heliodorus. These sondages, represented by my eight tables, are not all of the same kind. I present a number of preliminary sondages which I hope may help determine how much poetic vocabulary there is in three of our five complete Greek texts, which may give some indication of the classical and Hellenistic ancestry of that vocabulary, and which will also take account of words’ use by some poets who were near contemporaries of the novelists. What I offer here is something much less ambitious and hence much less satisfactory. For Chariton there is nothing on poetic usage comparable to Hernandez Lara 6 on Chariton’s supposed Atticism.ģWhat is needed, indeed, is thorough study of the linguistic texture of each of the novelists, a study that would require years and that would fill at least a substantial volume, or perhaps better an electronic data-base. No close discussion of the lexicon of Heliodorus can be found, for example, in Feuillâtre 4, despite his acknowledging help from Chantraine in his preface, nor in Paulsen 5. It may be that I have missed a discussion of poetic usage in the Greek novels that addressed the issue independently of an attempt to establish some specific intertextuality, but so far as I can discover only the lexicon of Longus has been systematically studied, by Gunnar Valley 3. Investigations of such intertextuality have been numerous and fruitful throughout the modern history of scholarship on the novel, and I do not attempt to register them here. The novelists’ vocabulary has not been wholly neglected, but most of the scholars who have given it their attention have done so in order to establish a particular intertextual relation between a part of a novelistic text and an earlier poetic text (or texts), whether the earlier text(s) in question be Homeric epic, Attic tragedy, Hellenistic pastoral or some other poetic genre.
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2 Conca, De Carli and Zanetto 1963‑1997.ĢSo far as I have been able to discover, remarkably little analytic work has been done specifically on the vocabulary of the novelists, despite the availability of the Lessico dei romanizeri greci, the fourth and last volume since 1997 2.