Longus
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Longus
Daphnis and Chloe by Jean-Pierre Cortot
Longus, sometimes Longos (Greek: ), was the author of an ancient Greek novel or romance, Daphnis and Chloe. Nothing is known of his life; it is assumed that he lived on the isle of Lesbos (setting for Daphnis and Chloe) during the 2nd century AD.
It has been suggested that the name Longus is merely a misinterpretation of the first word of Daphnis and Chloe's title ("story of a Lesbian romance", "Lesbian" for "from Lesbos island") in the Florentine manuscript; EE Seiler observes that the best manuscript begins and ends with (not ) ?.[1][2]
If his name was really Longus, he was possibly a freedman of some Roman family which bore that name as a cognomen.
See also
Other ancient Greek novelists:
- Chariton - The Loves of Chaereas and Callirhoe
- Xenophon of Ephesus - The Ephesian Tale
- Achilles Tatius - Leucippe and Clitophon
- Heliodorus of Emesa - The Aethiopica
References
- ^ Longi pastoralia. Books.google.ie. p. 341. Retrieved 2019.
- ^ Longi Pastoralia. Books.google.ie. p. 154. Retrieved 2019.
External links
Media related to Longus at Wikimedia Commons- Works by Longus at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Longus at Internet Archive
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