Leucippe and Clitophon
A Roman, Literature, Fiction book. To tell you the truth, it doesn't matter to me if one classifies this as a...
Achilles Tatius' Leucippe and Clitophon is the most bizarre and risque of the five "Greek novels" of idealized love between boy and girl that survive from the time of the Roman empire. Stretching the capacity of the genre to its limits, Achilles' narrative covers adultery, violence, disembowelment, pederasty, virginity-testing, and a conveniently happy ending. Ingenious and sophisticated in conception, Leucippe and Clitophon is at once subtle, stylish, moving, brash, tasteless, and obscene. This new translation aims to capture Achilles' writing in all its exuberant variety."
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 208 pages
- ISBN: 9780192804273 / 192804278
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To tell you the truth, it doesn't matter to me if one classifies this as a novel, or romance, or something else altogether. Those are, in any case, categories invented long after this text was written. Let's call it a novel, for convenience. Leucippe and Clitophon , written by the Alexandrian Greek Achilles Tatius in the 2nd century... L'amertume de l'amour, mais une vie chaste, voil ce que l'histoire de Clitophon nous met en quelque sorte sous les yeux. Mais la vie si chaste de Leucippe ravit tout le monde en extase; on admire comment, battue, les cheveux coups, outrage, et par-dessus tout, trois fois en danger de mort, elle tenait bon. Si tu veux aussi tre vertueux,... In part seems like a string of slightly disjointed and amazingly unlikely stories tied together, but it is jolly good fun. The Homeric references (amongst others) make for good fun spotting. Whitmarsh's notes are very good.
