“Chronotopes between East and West in Apollonios of Tyre

The Διήγησις πολυπαθοῦς Ἀπολλωνίου τοῦ Τύρου is part of a set of texts that bear testimony to the fortune of the Historia Apollonii regis Tyri in Western and Eastern areas through the centuries. This paper aims to analyse the reception of the Historia in the Greek area, in a medieval text that derives from the Tuscan-Venetian version. It gives priority, alongside with other critical levels, to the study of the construction of time-space in the Greek text. The paper aims also to verify the cognitive possibilities of a critical approach to texts that takes as its point of departure Michail Bakhtin’s study on the chronotope. After a brief summary of the results obtained up until now in the studies on the chronotope of the Historia and of some romance versions, I will seek to identify the chronotope of the Greek Medieval Διήγησις beginning with the differences between this last version and its Italian “source”.