Longus seems to have been a pagan sophist who lived about 200 CE; he is known to us only by his novel Daphnis and Chloe. This is the bucolic story of two foundlings, brought up by goatkeepers and shepherds on the island of Lesbos, who gradually fall in love. Notable among ancient romances for its perceptive characterizations, Daphnis and Chloe traces the development of the protagonists' love for each other from childlike innocence to full sexual maturity, the successive stages marked by adventures. The novel's picture of nature and rural life offers its own enchantments.
 Parthenius of Nicaea in Bithynia, a Greek poet, was brought to Rome in 73 BCE as a prisoner of war. After his release he settled in Italy and worked as poet and teacher. Virgil was one of his students. Parthenius's poetry, mainly elegiac, is lost, and his only extant work is Erotica Pathemata, an anthology of prose summaries of love stories from Greek literature, collected apparently for the use of Roman poets.

Daphnis and Chloe. Love Romances and Poetical Fragments. Fragments of the Ninus Romance (Loeb Classical Library) (English, Ancient Greek and Greek Edition)

Literature & Fiction

Longus

Parthenius

History & Criticism

Loeb Classical Library

First published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Erotika Pathemata: The Love Stories of Parthenius (Library of World Literature in Translation)

Routledge

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Plutarch

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Kessinger Publishing

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History

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BiblioBazaar

Mythographi Graeci, Volume 3, Part 1 (Ancient Greek Edition)

Apollodorus

Dramas & Plays

Nabu Press

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