2012
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Fabrice Robert, « La représentation de la pantomime dans les romans grecs et latins : les exemples de Longus et d’Apulée », Dialogues d'histoire ancienne, ID : 10.3406/dha.2012.3455
The representation of the pantomime in the Greek and Roman novels: the exemples of Longus and Apuleius. Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe and Apuleius’ Metamorphoses contain two descriptions of pantomimes. The study of these episodes aims to show that the many distortions between these novelistic representations and the reality of the pantomimic shows are not meaningless. Indeed they respond to literary stakes and reveal the intentions of the authors : the original elements can be explained within the narrative framework and contribute to the construction of the meaning that should be given to the episodes themselves and to the destiny of the characters.