A Study of Daphnis and Chloe
A Study of Daphnis and Chloe

Author: R. L. Hunter

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2007-09-10

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 9780521041379

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This 1983 book provides a serious modern literary treatment of perhaps the best known of all surviving works of ancient Greek fiction. Dr Hunter demonstrates the sophistication of this pastoral romance, a sophistication which he maintains has often been assumed but never properly discussed. Evidence for the identity of the author and the date of composition are also considered.

Daphnis and Chloe
Daphnis and Chloe

Author: Maurice Ravel

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 1989-01-01

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 0486258262

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Provides the complete orchestral score for Ravel's ballet

Collected Ancient Greek Novels
Collected Ancient Greek Novels

Author: B. P. Reardon

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2008-07-08

Total Pages: 852

ISBN-13: 9780520256552

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Nine complete stories are included here as well as ten others, encompassing the whole range of classical themes: ideal romance, travel adventure, historical fiction, and comic parody. A new foreword examines the enormous impact this collection has had on our understanding of classical thought and our concept of the novel.

Daphnis and Chloe
Daphnis and Chloe

Author: Longus

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 1989-01-26

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 0141907894

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A tender novel describing eager and inept young love, Daphnis and Chloe tells the story of a baby boy and girl who are discovered separately, two years apart, alone and exposed on a Greek mountainside. Taken in by a goatherd and a shepherd respectively, and raised near the town of Mytilene, they grow to maturity unaware of one another's existence - until the mischievous god of love, Eros, creates in them a sudden overpowering desire for one another. A masterpiece among early Greek romances, attracting both high praise and moral disapproval, this work has proved an enduringly fertile source of inspiration for musicians, writers and artists from Henry Fielding to Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot and Maurice Ravel. Longus transforms familiar themes from the romance genre - including pirates, dreams, and the supernatural - into a virtuoso love story that is rich in insight, humorous and ironical in its treatment of human sexual experience.

Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece
Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece

Author: Nigel Guy Wilson

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 840

ISBN-13: 9780415973342

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Examining every aspect of the culture from antiquity to the founding of Constantinople in the early Byzantine era, this thoroughly cross-referenced and fully indexed work is written by an international group of scholars. This Encyclopedia is derived from the more broadly focused Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition, the highly praised two-volume work. Newly edited by Nigel Wilson, this single-volume reference provides a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the political, cultural, and social life of the people and to the places, ideas, periods, and events that defined ancient Greece.

Greek Fiction
Greek Fiction

Author: ]. R. Morgan

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-11-19

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 1317799364

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First published in 1994. Greek fiction has never been more popular. New approaches to ancient literature, and new courses in literature in translation, have made the ancient novel a fertile field for scholar and student alike. This volume extends the boundaries of the subject beyond the 'canon' of the romances properly called and examines Greek fic­tional writing in the widest possible context, including texts that are not nor­mally treated as novels, such as various kinds of sacred or quasi-historical texts. The editors hope to open up the definition of Greek fiction to further debate and to create cross-currents between scholars working in diverse fields.

The Translation of Dr. Apelles
The Translation of Dr. Apelles

Author: David Treuer

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2008-02-12

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 0307386627

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Dr. Apelles, a translator of ancient texts, has made an unsettling discovery: a manuscript that has languished for years, written in a language that only he speaks. Moving back and forth between the scholar and his text, from a lone man in a labyrinthine archive to a pair of beautiful young Indian lovers in an unspoiled and snowy woodland, David Treuer weaves together two love stories. Enthralling and suspenseful, The Translation of Dr. Apelles dares to redefine the Native American novel.