Longus: Daphnis and Chloe

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.

• 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; ΛΟΓΓΟΥ ΠΟΙΜΕΝΙΚΩΝ ΤΩΝ ΚΑΤΑ ΔΑΦΝΙΝ ΚΑΙ ΧΛΟΗΝ; Commentary.

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