ABSTRACT
If the key to understanding the twelfth-century romances is to be found in the re-interpretations which they offer of their antique sources, this does not, however, mean that they are devoid of references to their own time or that their aims and achievements are uniform. Each of the four is a fully conscious attempt to work out, in a slightly different way, common problems of salvation in the world, and, in the text, of the rhetorical possibilities of the written word.
Theodore Prodromos, Rhodanthe and Dosikles
(Τὰ κατὰ 'Ροδάνθην καὶ Δοσικλέα) 1
