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The Reality of Women in the Universe of the Ancient NovelEdited by María Paz López Martínez, Carlos Sánchez-Moreno Ellart and Ana Belén Zaera García
[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature 40] 2023
► pp. 107–126
Contrary to what Calderini claimed in a famous article, engyesis cannot be found in the Greek novel, let alone in Heliodorus of Emesa, except as a remnant of an institution that in the Hellenistic world had lost its original meaning. Unlike the New Comedy, we do not find the phraseology that was to be pronounced but merely slight traces of the original terminology.