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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. 374–381
In this paper, I present the common context of Kallirhoe in Charito of Aphrodisias’ Kallirhoe with Sita, Rama’s wife in the Ramayana. The ancient Greek novel and the Sanskrit epic share several passages with Greek novel: the marriage, maybe an adultery, the lost of the husband or lover, the abduction by another man and the slanders from other women or citizens that marks the moral of the moment, the rumours that shake the marriage or relationship or the fight for power. But everything ends happily because the power of their love.