Leo A. Boonstra

MATERIALITY AND HYLÊ IN LONGUS’ DAPHNIS AND CHLOE

Abstract This article reads the word ὕλη (‘woods’, ‘forest’) in the Greek novel Daphnis and Chloe as reflecting a philosophical tradition in which the word means ‘matter’. From Aristotle onwards, ὕλη gains the meaning of transformable matter, which admits fundamental changes of f...