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Greek sophist and romancer, author of See also:Daphnis and Chloe. Nothing is known of his See also:life, and all that can be said is that he probably lived at the end of the 2nd or the beginning of the 3rd See also:century A.D. It has been suggested that the name Longus is merely a misreading of the last word of the See also:title AeQ(3iaK&P fpco-rnKwv Xoyoc S' in the Florentine MS.; Seiler also observes that the best MS. begins and ends with Aoyov (not Myyov) 7rocµevtici v. If his name was really Longus, he was probably a freedman of some See also:Roman See also:family which See also:bore it. Longus'sstyle is rhetorical, his shepherds and shepherdesses are wholly conventional, but he has imparted human See also:interest to a purely fanciful picture. As an See also:analysis of feeling, Daphnis and Chloe makes a nearer approach to the See also:modern novel than its See also:chief See also:rival among Greek erotic romances, the Aethiopica of See also:Heliodorus, which is remarkable mainly for the ingenious See also:succession of incidents. Daphnis and Chloe, two See also:children found by shepherds, grow up together, nourishing a mutual love which neither suspects. The development of this See also:simple See also:passion forms the chief interest, and there are few incidents. Chloe is carried off by a pirate, and ultimately regains her family. Rivals alarm the See also:peace of mind of Daphnis; but the two lovers are recognized by their parents, and return to a happy married life in the See also:country. Daphnis and Chloe was the See also:model of La Sireine of Honore d'See also:Urfe, the See also:Diana enamorada of See also:Montemayor, the Aminta of See also:Tasso, and The See also:Gentle Shepherd of See also:Allan See also:Ramsay. The celebrated See also:Paul et Virginie is an See also:echo of the same See also:story.

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Dunlop's See also:History of See also:Prose Fiction (1888), and especially E. Rohde, Der griechische Roman (1900). Longus found an incomparable translator in Jacques See also:Amyot, See also:bishop of See also:Auxerre, whose See also:French version, as revised by Paul See also:Louis See also:Courier, is better known than the See also:original. It appeared in 1559, See also:thirty-nine years before the publication of the Greek See also:text at See also:Florence by See also:Columbani. The chief subsequent See also:editions are those by G. Jungermann (1605), J. B. de See also:Villoison (1778, the first See also:standard text with commentary), A. Coraes (Coray) (1802), P. L. Courier (181o, with a newly discovered passage), E. Seiler (1835), R.

Hercher (1858), N. Piccolos (See also:

Paris, 1866) and Kiefer (See also:Leipzig, 1904), W. D. See also:Lowe (See also:Cambridge, 1908). A. J. Pons's edition (1878) of Courier's version contains an exhaustive bibliography; There are See also:English See also:translations by G. Thorneley (1733, reprinted 1893), C. V. Le Grice (1803), R. See also:Smith (in See also:Bohn's Classical Library), and the rare Elizabethan version by See also:Angel See also:Day from Amyot's See also:translation (ed. J.

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Jacobs in Tudor Library, 189o). The illustrated editions, generally of Amyot's version, are numerous and some are beautiful, Prudhon s designs being especially celebrated.

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