Book description
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. 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).
