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Apollonius of Tyre is the subject of an ancient short novella, popular in the Middle Ages. Existing in numerous forms in many languages, the text is thought to be translated from an ancient Greek manuscript, now lost.
In most versions, the eponymous hero is hunted and persecuted after he reveals Antiochus of Antioch's incestuous relationship with his daughter. After many travels and adventures, in which Apollonius loses both his wife and his daughter and thinks them both dead, he is eventually reunited with his family through unlikely circumstances or intercession by gods. In some English versions Apollonius is shipwrecked and becomes a tutor to a princess who falls in love with him, and the good king gradually discovers his daughter's wishes. The major themes are the punishment of inappropriate lust—the incestuous king invariably comes to a bad end—and the ultimate rewards of love and fidelity.
A notable English version is in the eighth book of John Gower's Confessio Amantis (1390), which uses it as an exemplum against lust.
William Shakespeare and George Wilkins's play Pericles, Prince of Tyre was based in part on Gower's version.
It is retold in The Porpoise by Mark Haddon.
Mythologie waar Appolonius van Tyrus bij hoort: Grieks
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Appolonius van Tyrus is de held van Tyrus.