Themes and motifs of Ethiopian tales
• Motif of precious jewels (p.103)
• Conspiracy that leads to death of an Ethiopian prince in Sugar Hill Apartment( p.105)
• Theme of racism, this is evident among the Italians and Ethiopians (p. 24)
• Theme of true love. This is evident between an Ethiopian woman and an American man. When the woman’s bodyguard is killed by the Italians, the Americans join her to retrieve some precious jewels from an ancient mountain sect in the hills of Ethiopia (p 6).
Themes and motifs of Petronius, Satyricon,
• Theme of class division( p.75)
• Theme of homosexuality. This can be evident by the 16 year old who was always attracted to various men( p. 68).
• Violence( p.70)
Themes and motifs of Longus, Daphnis and Chloe
• True love among young orphan couples adopted by slaves and brought up as
• Suffering
• Ignorance about sex. This is shown by a situation where Daphnis and Chloe tried to make love but they never knew how.
Themes and motifs of Xenophon of Ephesus, An Ephesian Tale
• Suffering because of love. Two couples fall in love at first sight but they are afraid to tell each other the feelings they have for each other( p 9).
• Theme of jealousy. Manto who was the husband to be of Apsyrtos’ daughter becomes jelus of Habrocomes and takes revenge on him by falsely acusing Habrocomes of rape.this makes Habrocomes to be whipped and tourtured by Apsyrtos p(1 67).
• Theme of slavery and hardship. Anthia, Leucon, and Rhode are slaves to Moeris and Manto. The three were given to Moeris and Manto as presents on their wedding p.(176)
• There is motif of suffering indicated by travails involving pirates, fire and flood as predicted by the soothsayer. This showed that Habrocomes and Anthia would undergo a lot of suffering in their lives (p.15).
These are the themes and motifs of this book.
• Travel to outer space. The two lovebirds always find themselves thinking about the impossible. encounter with alien life forms, including the experience of a first encounter event
• Interplanetary warfare and imperialism.
• Colonization of planets( p.67)
• artificial atmosphere
• Liquid air (p.109)
• Motif of giganticism P.(78)
• Creatures as products of human technology. There are so many robots being experienced in this book
• Worlds working by a set of alternate ‘physical’ laws( p.12).
• Explicit desire of the protagonist for exploration and adventure (p.105)
Themes and motifs of Chariton, Chaereas and Callirhoe
• True love exists( p.11)
• Conspiracy to break up two people that is Chaereas and Callirhoe(.p.16)
• Violence because of anger. Chaereas who was tricked by jealous people that Callirhoe, was unfaithful kicks his wife until she goes on a comma. However she was assumed dead and taken to a tomb (p.17)
• Hardships as aresult of slavery. Chaereas who discovered that Chaereas was alive goes after her but is kidnapped on the way p.(76).
• There is theme of victory. Chaereas and Chaereas are reunited again when Chaereas wins a war p (135).
Themes and motifs of Apuleius, The Golden Ass
• Motif of the golden ass (p.80).
• Theme of witchcraft. Ayoung man who was obsessed with witch craft until he was turned into a donkey( p.12).
• Human tricks (p.67).
• Transformation because of hard life.
Themes and motifs found in Pseudo-Callisthenes, Alexander Romance
Romance (p. 20)
War (p.56).
Victory (p.180).
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