Greek Fiction

Callirhoe, Daphnis and Chloe, Letters of Chion

Longus, Chariton, John Penwill , Phiroze Vasunia

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Penguin
04 October 2011

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers

Three works of fiction from Ancient Greece, with an introduction by Helen Morales

In this collection of Greek fiction written between the first and fourth centuries AD, 'Callirhoe' is the stirring tale of star-crossed lovers Chaereas and Callirhoe, torn apart when she is kidnapped and sold as a slave, while 'Daphnis and Chloe' tells of a boy and girl abandoned at birth, who grow up to fall in love and battle pirates. Greek Fiction - also containing 'Letters of Chion', an early thriller about tyranny and a political assassination - is a fascinating glimpse into an alternative view of Ancient Greece's literary culture.

By: Longus, Chariton
Translated by: John Penwill, Phiroze Vasunia, Rosanna Omitowoju
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 224g
ISBN: 9780140449259
ISBN 10: 0140449256
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 04 October 2011
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

CHARITON is assumed to be the earliest of the Greek novelists and probably wrote Callirhoe in the first or second century AD. LONGUS, the author of Dapnis and Chloe, is usually dated to the second or third centuries AD. HELEN MORALES is author of Mythology: A Very Short Introduction (2007) and co-editor of the Classics journal, Ramus. She currently teaches at the University of California, Santa Barbara. ROSANNA OMITOWOJU is Fellow of Kings College, Cambridge and author of Rape and the Politics of Consent in Classical Athens (2002). JOHN PENWILL taught at La Trobe University for 22 years prior to his retirement. He has published articles on the Greek epistolary novel and other works of ancient fiction, notably Apuleius' Golden Ass. PHIROZE VASUNIA is the author of The Gift of the Nile: Hellenizing Egypt from Aeschylus to Alexander (2001) and the co-editor of Classics and National Cultures (2010), and India, Greece, and Rome, 1757 to 2007 (2010).