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| | ICAN 2000 Paper Dr. Jean Alvares |
 | | For example, Charitons Callirhoe is compared to, and mistaken for, a goddess; thus Dionysios, suspicious of her real identity, informs Leonas that "historians and poets tell us that divine beings are compelled to associate with mortals," and, later, Chaireas and Dionysios imagine some god has abducted or tried to seduce Callirhoe. |
 | | This is undertaken in the persons of Chaireas and especially Callirhoe as they labor to safeguard their fidelity and moral purity. |
 | | Considering Callirhoes status as the avatar of Aphrodite, a fundamental power that can even overrule Tyche, on an archetypal level Chaireas returns to Syracuse not only having attained heroic honor through his deeds, but having been thoroughly converted into a faith which he had earlier held imperfectly. |
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