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Legal Pluralism in Roman Alexandria
2017
Overview
Achilles Tatius’ novel,Leucippe and Clitophon, composed in the later second century C.E., is in dialogue with Chariton’sCallirhoe. Stylistically, it reflects the Atticism that was the hallmark of educational refinement during the Second Sophistic.¹ Callirhoe challenged the image of the adulteress because her second marriage was paradoxically due to her fidelity to her first husband and their unborn child. Allegations of adultery were made both outside and inside the courtroom, but Callirhoe rose above the fray with her honor intact. Responding to Chariton, Achilles Tatius invests substantial narrative space to an adultery plot, which does not valorize the generic
