Extreme beauty
Callirhoe's own appearance constitutes the concrete imagery in a serious network of abstract associations. She is attractive, but that isn't really strong enough language. She is not only beautiful, she is extremely beautiful. To others, that imagery seems automatically good, because everyone assumes that she gets anything she wants or something. In the context of the story, though, the imagery proves that idea wrong. The beauty ends up being a kind of fateful affliction, because she is constantly being abused or captured by men who want to own her as sexual property.
Marriage
Instead of showing a nice love story between two happy people, we see a seemingly perfect marriage breaking through the honeymoon phase and thrusted into chaos. The interaction with chaos and their marriage makes the whole marriage seem untenable and dubious, but by the end, the marriage has survived what will now be regarded in retrospect as the introduction of trust into a dysfunctional marriage. Callirhoe ends up thanking the gods for this painful process, because it makes the marriage better in a beautiful (yet painful) way.
Sexual authority
When Chaeras manages to win Callirhoe's heart, he wins out in a competition of an entire tribe of men who instantly start plotting their revenge against him. They wrongly feel that they should have a kind of tribal authority in the sexual decisions of the beautiful village girls. Callirhoe experiences only the brutal outcome of this conspiracy; the town convinces Chaeras that Callirhoe has been unfaithful, and in a fit of rage, he beats her to death. It turns out she survived after all, but she only goes on to become dominated by new men before fate finally restores her to a now-adjusted and grown up Chaeras.
Forgiveness and marriage
The reader sees concrete and abstract proof of forgiveness in this marriage. For Callirhoe, the main goal of forgiveness is to adequately judge whether Chaeras is still violent and abusively tempered, or whether he has grown. She has to attain forgiveness so she can be logical in her decision-making. The risk is severe; he almost killed her in a violent rampage. He also has to forgive her; she lied to a man and married him without telling the new husband about the old one. This might have been a last-ditch situation, but still—Chaeras ends up having to forgive Callirhoe for having a new sexually intimate romance.
