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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 957 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EUSTATHIUS, or EUMATHIUS , surnamed Macrembolites (" living near the See also:long See also:bazaar "), the last of the See also:Greek See also:romance writers, flourished in the second See also:half of the 12th See also:century A.D. His See also:title Protonobilissimus shows him to have been a See also:person of distinction, and if he is also correctly described in the See also:MSS. as p yas xapTotiXaE (See also:chief keeper of the ecclesiastical archives), he must have been a See also:Christian. He was the author of The See also:Story of Hysmine and Hysminias, in eleven books, a tedious and inferior See also:imitation of the Cleitophon and Leucippe of See also:Achilles Tatius. There is nothing See also:original in the See also:plot, and the See also:work is tasteless and often coarse. Although the author borrowed from See also:Homer and other See also:Attic poets, the chief source of his phraseology was the rhetorician Choricius of See also:Gaza. The See also:style is remarkable for the See also:absence of See also:hiatus and an extremely laboured use of See also:antithesis. The digressions on See also:works of See also:art, apparently the result of See also:personal observation, are the best See also:part of the work. A collection of eleven See also:Riddles, of which solutions were written by the grammarian See also:Manuel Holobolos, is also attributed to Eustathius. The best edition of both romance and riddles is by I. Hilberg (1876, who fixes the date of Eustathius between 85o and 988), with See also:critical apparatus and prolegomena, including the solutions; of the Riddles alone by M. Treu (1893). On Eustathius generally, see J.

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Dunlop, See also:History of Fiction (1388, new ed. in See also:Bohn's See also:Standard Library) ; E. Rohde, Der griechische See also:Roman (1900) ; K. See also:Krumbacher, Geschichte der byzantinischen Litteratur (1897). There are many See also:translations in See also:modern See also:languages, of which that by r. le Bas (1825) may be recommended; there is an See also:English version from the See also:French by L. H. le Moine (See also:London and See also:Paris, 1788).

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