In this article, I take a new look at the problem of Calasiris’ ‘duplicity’ as depicted in the long autobiographical narrative he delivers to Cnemon in Books 2-5 of Heliodorus’ Aethiopica . A close parallel for Calasiris’ self-presentation can be found in an unlikely source: the medical case histories of the doctor Galen. Through a comparison of Calasiris’ narrative with those of Galen, I demonstrate that both narrators employ similar ‘deceptive’ strategies to showcase their observational and deductive skills to their audience. Calasiris’ foregrounding of such ‘rational’ methods and his downplaying of the prophetic power that others attribute to him suggest that, despite the Aethiopica ’s religious trappings, its ideal reader is a secular one.

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与卡拉西里斯的麻烦

在本文中，我重新审视了卡拉西里斯（Calasiris）的“双重性”问题，正如他在Heliodorus的《埃塞俄比亚》（Aethiopica）的第2-5卷中向克内蒙提供的冗长的自传叙述中所描绘的那样。在不太可能的来源中可以找到与卡拉西里斯（Casilasris）的自我陈述非常相似的东西：盖伦医生的病历。通过比较卡拉西里斯（Calasiris）和盖伦（Galen）的叙述，我证明了两个叙述者都采用类似的“欺骗”策略向观众展示他们的观察和演绎技巧。卡拉西里斯（Calasiris）对这种“理性”方法的前瞻性以及对他人归因于他的预言能力的轻描淡写表明，尽管埃塞俄比亚最有宗教色彩，但其理想读者是世俗的。