Longus (Sophista.)

Daphnis and Chloe

Longus

"Two young lovers battle pirates, rivals and their own confused feelings in this tender pastoral romance from ancient Greece. "

Risa C

So much WILD shit went down in this book: ineffective pirates, lots of platonic kissing, swearing oaths on goats, villains of literally no consequence, and pretty mild godly shenanigans. I wish our young, dumb lovers were more than young and dumb, but it feels unfair to ask for character development from an ancient Greek novel.

Dafni e Cloe

Diana 

Avete mai avuto la sensazione di non riuscire ad identificare, a descrivere una emozione provata? Di non comprendere il moto interiore dei propri sentimenti e di non essere in grado di esprimerlo a parole, di raccontarlo! Per vergogna o per timidezza? 
Erano lieti se vicini, se lontani eran tristi, sentivano in sé stessi di volere qualcosa, ma quel che volessero non sapevano
In poche pagine e in pochi attimi, Longo narra del cambiamento fisico ed emotivo di due giovani e i sentimenti di uno verso l'altro, i loro turbamenti, le loro angosce e le situazioni di ambiguità.

Romanzo pastorale, ricco di vicende e cambiamenti, con pirati, interventi di divinità e rapimenti. 
Per chi è avvezzo ai racconti cavallereschi o ai romanzi cortesi, in queste pagine vedrà delle anticipazioni.

Paul Turner

Longus's romance tells the story of two teenagers, Daphnis and Chloe, who love each other but do not know how to make love. Around their predicament Longus weaves a fantasy which entertains and instructs, but never errs in taste. The hard toil and precariousness of peasant life are here, butso are its compensations--revelry, music, dance, and storytelling. Above the action brood divinities--Eros, Dionysus, Pan, the Nymphs--who collaborate to guide the adolescents into the mystery of Love, at once a sensual and a religious initiation. Daphnis and Chloe is the best known, and the best, of the early Greek romances, precursors to the modern novel. Admired by Goethe, it has been reinterpreted in music and art by Ravel and Chagall. This new translation is immensely readable, and does full justice to the humor and humanity of the story.

Mireya Miner

Longus,

Longus' romance tells the story of two teenagers, who love each other but do not know how to make love. Divine presences mingle with peasant life in this colourful story of the mystery of love and sexual initiation. Ronald McCail's new translation is immensely readable and does full justice to one of the most popular of classical romances, a precursor to the modern novel.

Norma gruden

Pat com

Julieta Nardin

Simon Elliott Stegall

Jodie Foerster

Kiya Robinson

sam k

orlando calva

zilver 

The second century romance about two foundlings who are brought up by shepherds, fall in love at an early age, but must overcome enormous obstacles before they can attain happiness.

Daphnis and Chloe

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