Interpretation Of Apollonius

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Interpretation of Apollonius Throughout the article Apollonius of Tyre in Its Manuscript Context: An Issue of Marriage, writer Melanie Heyworth states the story of Apollonius “represents incest as unlawful and immoral sexual congress. It applauds consensual marriage. Its hero practices monogamy and its heroine, however marginal, is celebrated for her chastity”(pg 18). Heyworth compares this main idea of marriage to the point of views that the Christian and Anglo Saxon cultures abided by. The reader could interpret from her article that the marriage Apollonius had was one that would have been honored, even though the couple split up by tragedy. Heyworth starts off her article by stating that the story of Apollonius is part of an excerpt with the title “MS 201”. The story of Apollonius describes a marriage where a daughter of a king gets to choose her husband. But the marriage did not last because the husband Apollonius was led to believe that his wife died from giving birth on a ship, yet in reality she does not die and Apollonius is unaware of this. The decision then comes of what to do now? Should they both stay single? Or should they remarry? Heyworth provides the reader with the Anglo Saxon and Christian point of view of remarriage, then she relates it to the decision that Apollonius and his wife made. Both Apollonius and his wife decided not to remarry after the separation. Melanie Heyworth argues that the Old English tale of Apollonius of Tyre that is present in the MS 201 manuscript, “written in the mid-eleventh century: Cambridge, Corpus Christi College” (pg. 1), that contains such writing such as “Regularis Concordia” (pg. 2), “the considerable amount of Wulfstanian material” (pg. 2), “selections from his Institutes of Polity; the Northumbrian Priests' Law” (pg. 2), and contents from “the so-called 'Late Old English Handbook for the Use of the

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