The literary tradition which underlies to the Heliodorus' roman Theagenes and Charicleia is plenty of different genres and works, but its main debt points to the Homeric Odyssey. The only necromantic passage of the novelistic genre also brings a clear as well as noticeable case for intertextuality, as it has strong links with the Odysseic nékyia. It is also related to the Egyptian rituals described by Herodotus at the II Book of his work, and to the rituals shown in Aeschylus' Persians to invoke the phantom of king Darius. We deal therefore with an extraordinary passage which is linked to several topics of the former Greek literature.... [Leer más...]