Longus: Daphnis and Chloe

Detailed commentary on what is arguably the finest surviving Greek novel, exploring language, style and literary influences and aspirations.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. The text and the story; 2. Longus' poetic intertexts; 3. Longus' exploitation of earlier prose texts; 4. Poetic elements in Longus' prose?; 5. Religion; 6. City and country; 7. Art and nature; 8. Style and language; 9. Syntax; 10. Choice of words; 11. Longus' non-Attic lexicon and date; 12. Reception and transmission; 13. The text and commentary; ¿¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿¿ ¿¿¿ ¿¿¿¿¿; Commentary.

About the author

Ewen Bowie is Emeritus Fellow and E. P. Warren Praelector in Classics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford and Emeritus Professor of Classical Languages and Literature at the University of Oxford, where he taught for forty-two years on numerous subjects including early elegiac and iambic poetry, Old Comedy, Hellenistic poetry and the ancient novel. He is editor of a volume on Herodotus (2018) and co-editor of volumes on archaic Greek poetry (2011) and Philostratus (Cambridge, 2009), as well as the author of eighty articles on the Greek literature and culture of the Roman Empire, including twenty on the Greek novel, among many other publications.

Summary

Longus' Daphnis and Chloe is arguably our finest surviving Greek novel, whose story engages with romantic, pastoral and rhetorical themes. This is the first full commentary to address Longus' linguistic texture and its implications for his literary aspirations, as well as his narrative skills and intertextuality with earlier Greek writers.

Product details

• Authors: Ewen Bowie, Longus
• Assisted by: Ewen Bowie (Editor), Ewen (University of Oxford) Bowie (Editor), Bowie Ewen (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2019
• EAN: 9780521776592
• ISBN: 978-0-521-77659-2
• No. of pages: 346
• Series: Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics; Cambridge Greek and Latin Clas
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Main work before 1945; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Classic fiction (pre c 1945), LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Ancient (Classical) Greek, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Classic fiction: general and literary