Abstract
The presented study tries to resolves possible relations between the ancient Greek romantic novel (Chariton, Chaereas and Callirhoe; Xenofon, Ephesiaca; Longus, Daphnis and Chloe; Achilles Tatius, Leucippe and Clitophon; Heliodorus, Ethiopica) and the early apocryphal Acts of the Apostles from the second and third centuries (a collection of five books - The Acts of Peter, Paul, John, Andrew, Thomas – so-called the Leucian Acts). A subsequent part of treatise deals with stylistic dissimilarities, an ideological (feminist) criticism and at the same time a socio-rhetorical perspective of the apocryphal Acts, which can be a radical, ironic, but also entertaining criticism of predominantly Roman society founded on totally different values (a dominant male society and the like - e.g. methods and treatises of M.
Aubin or J. N.
Vorster).