The Trojan Myth of Memnon and the Singing Colossus: Variants of the Story in Philostratus

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  • Ivana Selene Chialva Universidad Nacional del Litoral
DOI: https://doi.org/10.6018/myrtia.500161
Keywords: narrative, Philostratus, Memnon, literacy, orality

Abstract

The Trojan myth of the hero Memnon is reiterated with variants and reformulations in different works of the Philostratean corpus: Images, Life of Apollonius of Tyana and Heroicus. The inclusion of mythical narrative has been often considered as a repetitive resource inheriting school forms and the archaic and bookish taste of the pepaideumenoi. This article proposes a transversal analysis of alluding to Memnon in the corpus to demonstrate that the variations of the mythical story are functional rewritings of a Hellenic sophia according to the sophist's narrative program in each work.

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11-11-2021
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Selene Chialva, I. (2021). The Trojan Myth of Memnon and the Singing Colossus: Variants of the Story in Philostratus. Myrtia, 36, 132–142. https://doi.org/10.6018/myrtia.500161
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