Daphnis and Chloe

Daphnis and Chloe
Author: Maurice Ravel
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 321
Release: 1989-01-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0486258262

Provides the complete orchestral score for Ravel's ballet

Daphnis and Chloe

Daphnis and Chloe
Author: Longus
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 121
Release: 1989-01-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0141907894

A tender novel describing eager and inept young love, Daphnis and Chloe tells the story of a baby boy and girl who are discovered separately, two years apart, alone and exposed on a Greek mountainside. Taken in by a goatherd and a shepherd respectively, and raised near the town of Mytilene, they grow to maturity unaware of one another's existence - until the mischievous god of love, Eros, creates in them a sudden overpowering desire for one another. A masterpiece among early Greek romances, attracting both high praise and moral disapproval, this work has proved an enduringly fertile source of inspiration for musicians, writers and artists from Henry Fielding to Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot and Maurice Ravel. Longus transforms familiar themes from the romance genre - including pirates, dreams, and the supernatural - into a virtuoso love story that is rich in insight, humorous and ironical in its treatment of human sexual experience.

A Study of Daphnis and Chloe

A Study of Daphnis and Chloe
Author: R. L. Hunter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 148
Release: 2007-09-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521041379

This 1983 book provides a serious modern literary treatment of perhaps the best known of all surviving works of ancient Greek fiction. Dr Hunter demonstrates the sophistication of this pastoral romance, a sophistication which he maintains has often been assumed but never properly discussed. Evidence for the identity of the author and the date of composition are also considered.

Daphnis and Chloe

Daphnis and Chloe
Author: Longus
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 77
Release: 2022-09-15
Genre: Art
ISBN:

"Daphnis and Chloe" is an ancient Greek novel written in the Roman Empire by novelist and romance writer Longus. It is a delightful story of Daphnis and Chloe, who fall in love without knowing what 'Love' is. Through a series of strange and funny mishaps, they understand love and find their true happiness.

Greek Fiction

Greek Fiction
Author: Longus
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2011-08-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0140449256

A trio of tales offering an eye-opening alternative view of ancient Greece's literary culture. A fascinating counterpoint to the monumental epics of ancient Greece, Greek Fiction features three novelistic works written between the first and fourth centuries AD. Chariton's "Callirhoe"-perhaps the first novel ever written-is the stirring tale of two star-crossed lovers who are torn apart when Callirhoe is kidnapped and sold into slavery.

Longus, Daphnis and Chloe

Longus, Daphnis and Chloe
Author: C T Hadavas
Publisher:
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2020-12-30
Genre:
ISBN:

This book provides vocabulary and commentary to Longus' ancient romance novel Daphnis and Chloe (c. 150-250 CE), one of the last great works of Ancient Greek pagan literature. Longus' text tells the ostensibly simple story of how an innocent young boy (the goatherder Daphnis) and girl (the shepherdess Chloe) on the Aegean island of Lesbos gradually discover love, sex, and their true selves in a semi-idealized pastoral environment. In actuality, however, this narrative surface conceals an intricately crafted and highly polished work that, as it delights the eyes and ears with its rhythmical, symmetrical, and variegated verbal patternings, explores questions concerning gender and the relations between the sexes, investigates the relationship between instinct and culture, and offers a sophisticated commentary on the interrelationship of τέχνη ("art") and φύσις ("nature"), μῦθος ("fiction/imagination") and λόγος ("factual account/truth").The vocabulary lists in this edition employ the up-to-date English definitions found in Franco Montanari's The Brill Dictionary of Ancient Greek (2015), and are therefore superior to those found in the one other English language student commentary on Daphnis and Chloe aimed at intermediate-level readers, Byrne and Cueva's Longus' Daphnis and Chloe: An Annotated Edition (Mundelein [IL], 2005), which rely on the mid-nineteenth-century English of LSJ9 (Liddell, H. G., Scott, R., Stuart Jones, J., and Mackenzie, R. (eds.). A Greek-English Lexicon [9th edition]. Oxford, 1968). In addition, the notes in this edition, which are more numerous and detailed than those in Byrne and Cueva's text, explicate syntactical and grammatical aspects that may be challenging for intermediate students, point out many (not all!) of the various literary/rhetorical figures and tropes that are extensively employed, and supply information on historical and cultural issues raised by the novel. Lastly, a glossary is included of words that occur more than three times.

The Translation of Dr. Apelles

The Translation of Dr. Apelles
Author: David Treuer
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2008-02-12
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307386627

Dr. Apelles, a translator of ancient texts, has made an unsettling discovery: a manuscript that has languished for years, written in a language that only he speaks. Moving back and forth between the scholar and his text, from a lone man in a labyrinthine archive to a pair of beautiful young Indian lovers in an unspoiled and snowy woodland, David Treuer weaves together two love stories. Enthralling and suspenseful, The Translation of Dr. Apelles dares to redefine the Native American novel.