Two Novels from Ancient Greece : Chariton's Callirhoe and Xenophon of Ephesos' an Ephesian Tale - Anthia and Habrocomes
, by Trzaskoma, Stephen M.Note: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9781603841931 | 1603841938
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 3/25/2010
These new translations of the earliest preserved novels in ancient Greek offer us a glimpse of the beginning of prose fiction in the western world. Their plots feature beautiful young lovers struggling in unlikely circumstances against impossible odds¿with an ultimately happy result.