Observaciones sobre el Pleid. U (El sueño de Nectanebo) y el Pturner 8 (Tinufis)

Abstract

El sueño de Nectanebo no es un fragmento de novela griega pero sí un documento interesante para conocer la formación de este género literario, como lo demuestra su relación con la Novela de Alejandro y con otros fragmentos de novela, como el que recoge la historia de Tinufis.

We would like to consider how advisable it would be to include the text The Dream of Nektanebos in a study of fragments of ancient Greek novels. It is an interesting starting point to analyse complete preserved works as is the case of Pseudo-Kallisthenes, or else fragments like PTurner 8, though one could not count it as a real Greek novel. The Greeks translated and adapted various material supplied by other literary traditions – namely the Egyptian Königsnovelle-. These texts could have contributed to the formation of Greek narrative fiction, at that embryonic stage, II-I century BC, when the Greek novel was still not entirely defined as a genre.