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Leucippe and Clitophon
by Achilles Tatius [Achilleus Statios, Achilles Statius]
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- Fine
- Paperback
- Condition
- Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0192804278
- ISBN 13
- 9780192804273
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About This Item
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003 Book. Illus. by Trans. Tim Whitmarsh. Fine. Soft cover. 'Her mouth was like the bloom of a rose, when the rose begins to part the lips of its petals. As soon as I saw, I was done for.All my dreams were of Leucippe.' Achilles Tatius' Leucippe and Clitophon is the most bizarre and risque of the five 'Greek novels' of idealized love between boy and girl that survive from the period of the Roman empire. Stretching the capacity of the genre to its limits, Achilles' narrative covers adultery, violence, evisceration, pederasty, virginity-testing, and (of course) an improbable happy ending. Ingenious and sophisticated in conception, Leucippe and Clitophon is in execution at once subtle, stylish, moving, brash, tasteless, and obscene. This new translation aims to capture Achilles' writing in all its exuberant variety. A new translation by Tim Whitmarsh. Introduction by Helen Morales (Introduction byHelen Morales. 164p..
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- Bookseller
- KALAMOS BOOKS (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 32445
- Title
- Leucippe and Clitophon
- Author
- Achilles Tatius [Achilleus Statios, Achilles Statius]
- Illustrator
- Trans. Tim Whitmarsh
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0192804278
- ISBN 13
- 9780192804273
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Place of Publication
- Oxford
- Date Published
- 2003
- Keywords
- GREEK ROMANCES
- Bookseller catalogs
- Greek Literature - Ancient;
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