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Rodanfa and Dosicles is a poetic love novel by Theodore Prodrome.

The novel has a very large volume, 4614 iambic trimeters. Prodrome took advantage of the plot of Heliodor’s Ethiopian, filling the poem with all the techniques of rhetorical prose.

Contents
A young man from Abydos Dosicle, with the help of a friend, kidnaps the beautiful Rodanfu. He meets the girl when she goes to the bathhouse, at other times she is carefully hidden from idle eyes, placed in an almost inaccessible tower. In Rhodes, young men are attacked by robbers, resulting in Rodanphas being taken as a slave to Cyprus and Dosicles being sacrificed. A lucky accident, however, suddenly frees the young man, he flees to Cyprus and there frees Rodanfu from slavery. Meanwhile, the fathers of both, according to the prediction of the Delphic oracle, arrive from Abydos to Cyprus, and the narrative gets a happy ending.

Literature
Freiberg A., Popova T. Byzantine literature of the heyday. IX - XV centuries M., 1978, p. 158.

References
De Rhodanthes Et Dosiclis Amoribus Libri IX

Love novels in Greek
XII century novels
Novels in verse