EPISODE · Oct 19, 2025 · 51 MIN
Is this ancient novel realistic??
from The Lydia McGrew Podcast · host Lydia McGrew Podcast
A skeptic recently sent me a link to this article about an ancient novel, the Aithiopika (or Aaethiopica) of Heliodoros.https://www.jstor.org/stable/25010772?read-now=1&seq=22#page_scan_tab_contents(If you are interested in the article, you can log into Jstor using your Google account and read it for free.)Here is a copy of the novel in translation (along with some other works). Find "THE ADVENTURES OF THEAGENES AND CHARICLEA" to read it. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/55406/55406-h/55406-h.htm#HELIODORUSDoes the "realism" of this novel serve as a counterexample to claims I have made about the Gospels and Acts, the non-existence of what I have called "hyper-realistic" novels at the time of the Gospels, and the reportage genre? In a word, no. Watch to learn more! (And if I say so myself, for such a dusty subject, the summaries and readings I include later in the video of parts of the Athiopika are rather amusing!)
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