Daphnis and Chloe
A Ancient History, Fantasy, Fiction book. While Nape was making the bread and Dryas boiling the ram, Daphnis and Chloe had time to...
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, but so 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. About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from...
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- Pages: 94 pages
- ISBN: 9780199554959 / 199554951
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While Nape was making the bread and Dryas boiling the ram, Daphnis and Chloe had time to go forth as far as the ivy-bush; and when he had set his snares again and pricked his lime-twigs, they not only catched good store of birds, but had a sweet collation of kisses without intermission, and a dear conversation in the language of love: "Chloe, I came for thy sake." "I know it, Daphnis." "'Tis long of thee that I destroy the poor birds." "What wilt thou with me?" "Remember me." "I remember thee, by the Nymphs by whom heretofore I have sworn in yonder cave,... For there was never any yet that wholly could escape love, and never shall there be any, never so long as beauty shall be, never so long as eyes can see. Longus, Daphnis and Chloe // He is so poor that he could not keep a dog. Longus, Daphnis and Chloe //
Like a fairytale minus the fun stuff. Recommended if the sentence, "I swear by the goats," said not an iota ironically, appeals to you. I loved this! This is a beautifully whimsical tale of innocence, sex, love and pirates. Perhaps my favourite piece of classical literature I've ever read!
