- Character sketches, Daphnis (Greek mythology), Early works to 1800, Fiction
Longus's Daphnis and Chloe (second or early third century CE), in which an idealized pastoral environment provides the setting as a boy and girl discover their sexuality, is one of the great works of world literature. Xenophon's Anthia and Habrocomes (first century CE) is perhaps the earliest extant novel.
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Classical in form, warm, grave and contemplative.
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- earnestironic
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About the book
- Author
- Longus, Otto Schönberger
- First published
- 1717
- Pages
- 195
- Publisher
- A. Mondadori, Simpkin Marshall, Geoffrey Bles
- Editions
- 119
- Language
- und, gre, Russian, grc
- ISBN
- 9781377856452
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