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Greek Fiction: Callirhoe, Daphnis and Chloe, Letters of Chion (Penguin Classics)
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Greek Fiction: Callirhoe, Daphnis and Chloe, Letters of Chion (Penguin Classics) Paperback - 2011 - 1st Edition

by Longus; Chariton; Omitowoju, Rosanna [Translator]; Vasunia, Phiroze [Translator];

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A trio of tales offering an eye-opening alternative view of ancient Greece's literary culture.

A fascinating counterpoint to the monumental epics of ancient Greece, Greek Fiction features three novelistic works written between the first and fourth centuries AD. Chariton's "Callirhoe"-perhaps the first novel ever written-is the stirring tale of two star-crossed lovers who are torn apart when Callirhoe is kidnapped and sold into slavery. Longus's "Daphnis and Chloe" tells the story of a boy and girl-both abandoned at birth-who grow up to fall in love and battle pirates. "Letters of Chion" is an early thriller about tyranny and political assassination. Together these works open a welcome window onto ancient Greece's little-explored legacy of prose fiction.

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  • Title Greek Fiction: Callirhoe, Daphnis and Chloe, Letters of Chion (Penguin Classics)
  • Author Longus; Chariton; Omitowoju, Rosanna [Translator]; Vasunia, Phiroze [Translator];
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Condition New
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Classics, London, United Kingdom
  • Date 2011-10-25
  • Features Maps, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # Q-0140449256
  • ISBN 9780140449259 / 0140449256
  • Weight 0.45 lbs (0.20 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.7 x 5 x 0.8 in (19.56 x 12.70 x 2.03 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
    • Cultural Region: Greece
  • Dewey Decimal Code 888

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About the author

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).