Capitolo 75
prose. We have been conducted to consider the possible connection of some kind
of the fiction of prose with the epic poem from the presence in both of them of the love
element and that of adventure. But the Greek novel has rather another
marked characteristic. It is rhetorical, and this quality has suggested that it
you/he/she is been able to come, not from the epic poem, but from the rhetorical exercise.
Support has been given to this theory among the recent years from the discovery
in Egypt of two fragments of the novel of Ninos. The first one of these
fragments reveal Ninos, the hero, begging with its aunt Derkeia the
beautiful mother of his, for permission to marry himself/herself/themselves his/her cousin. All the
you deduce in support of his/her declaration and against him has put in before and
balanced one against the other in a very systematic way. He wins on
Derkeia. Later in the same fragment the girl begs in a rather similar
you shape with Thambe the mother of Ninos. The second fragment is mainly
him worried about the countries of Ninos. Here we have the two persons in love,
it probably separated from the departure of Ninos for the wars, while the
hero, at least you/he/she has shown to the danger of the country.
The point did after the text of this discovery had been published that the
great part attentively taken in the history by the balanced matters they pointed out
what the history sprang from exercises in reasoning in the rhetorical one
schools. [83] the oldest Seneca has preserved for us in his/her _Controversiae_
champions of the themes that had put for students in these schools. The
student wondered to imagine him in a supposed dilemma and then to
the considerations that would conduct him/it to adopt that or the discusses
other guideline. Some of these situations suggest excellent dramatic
possibility, the conditions of the life, for example where suicide seemed
justifiable, misadventures with pirates or a turn of business that
threatened the virtue of a woman. Before the student reached the point of
debating the case, the history has to be reported, and out of these accounts of