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Daphnis and Chloe . The love romances of Parthenius and other fragments

by Longus ; with the English translation of George Thornley ; revised and augmented by J.M. Edmonds . with an English translation by S. Gaselee

(The Loeb classical library, 69)

W. Heinemann , G.P. Putnam, 1916

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Daphnis & Chloe

The lesbian pastorals of Daphnis and Chloe

Daphnis and Chloe : a most sweet and pleasant pastoral romance for young ladies

Love romances ; Poetical fragments ; The Alexandrian erotic fragment ; The ninus romance

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Greek text and English translation on opposite pages

Bibliography: p. xxiii

Later printing published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press

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Longus seems to have been a pagan sophist who lived about 200 CE; he is known to us only by his novel Daphnis and Chloe. This is the bucolic story of two foundlings, brought up by goatkeepers and shepherds on the island of Lesbos, who gradually fall in love. Notable among ancient romances for its perceptive characterizations, Daphnis and Chloe traces the development of the protagonists' love for each other from childlike innocence to full sexual maturity, the successive stages marked by adventures. The novel's picture of nature and rural life offers its own enchantments. Parthenius of Nicaea in Bithynia, a Greek poet, was brought to Rome in 73 BCE as a prisoner of war. After his release he settled in Italy and worked as poet and teacher. Virgil was one of his students. Parthenius's poetry, mainly elegiac, is lost, and his only extant work is Erotica Pathemata, an anthology of prose summaries of love stories from Greek literature, collected apparently for the use of Roman poets.

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  • NCID
    BA06759613
  • ISBN
    • 0674990765
    • 0434990698
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    grceng
  • Original Language Code
    grc
  • Place of Publication
    London,New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    xxiii, 423 p.
  • Size
    17 cm
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