I really appreciated how gentle and lighthearted the story was. Five pages in, I realized it was also the model used by Honoré d'Urfé and Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre. Longus transforms familiar themes from the romance genre - including pirates, dreams, and the supernatural - into a virtuoso love story that is rich in insight, humorous and ironical in its treatment of human sexual experience.A shepherd and a shepherdess fall in love in those ancient days before this became a literary trope.This was my first classical novel, having only read plays/poems beforehand. Daphnis et Chloé is a ballet in one act with three parts (scenes) by Maurice Ravel described as a "symphonie chorégraphique" (choreographic symphony). There wasn't a single point I felt the language or tone were outdated, confusing or dense, and the story itself was fun and charming, as we follow two young people who must go up against the likes of pirates, jealous would-be suitors, extreme weather and Greek deities in their quest to understand their feelings for each other so they can be together.I bought this book twenty years and took it with me to Greece, as it seemed appropriate reading matter for a bucolic holiday.I bought this book twenty years and took it with me to Greece, as it seemed appropriate reading matter for a bucolic holiday.The most original, and in my opinion, most beautiful love story ever put into words (do not take that statement too seriously, I've probably read a total of 3 or 4 love stories in my lifetime and 2 of them were probably about animals or trees and whatnot). I loved how reading the story felt like it was being read to me. The images and characters were very memorable. Recommended if the sentence, "I swear by the goats," said not an iota ironically, appeals to you.
At least I'm aware that I missed out, and so I have to fill in the gaps!
Taken in by a goatherd and a shepherd respectively, and raised near the town of Mytilene, they grow to maturity unaware of one another's existence - until the mischievous goA tender novel describing eager and inept young love, Daphnis and Chloe tells the story of a baby boy and girl who are discovered separately, two years apart, alone and exposed on a Greek mountainside. Even though the story went a bit too slow to my liking, I still enjoyed reading Daphnis and Chloe, especially because of the way the author described the surroundings and the way it gave me some insight in Grecian culture.An adorable and light-hearted story about the discovery of love, portrayed by Daphnis, a goatherd, and Chloe, a young shepherdess in a bucolic pastoral setting.An adorable and light-hearted story about the discovery of love, portrayed by Daphnis, a goatherd, and Chloe, a young shepherdess in a bucolic pastoral setting.This was a beautiful work of literature. Excerpt 1 - 1 measure after [155] to 2 measures after [157], Excerpt 2 - [194] to 2 measures after [198], Excerpt 3 - [201] to 2 measures before [210] Start by marking “Daphnis and Chloe” as Want to Read: Edmonds.
The way I do so is through this: the Penguin Classics list I found on Wikipedia (see below for the links)Things like this make me lament the difference in curriculum between what I studied in school in the US and what my friend studied in Italy in Lecce.
Click Download or Read Online button to get daphnis and chloe book now. ...This collection of essays, the result of a 2006 conference at the University of Wales in Lampeter, look at the influence of philosophical texts on the anci ...This thematic fourth Supplementum to Ancient Narrative, entitled Metaphor and the Ancient Novel, is a collection of revised versions of papers originally r ...This companion addresses a topic of continuing contemporary relevance, both cultural and literary. This could do with a more vigorous translation, it's so matter of fact. Perhaps my favourite piece of classical literature I've ever read!The perfect pinnacle pastoral novel - ancient romantic scenery fill'd greenery in sheen stellar sweetly enlinks sexually with twins lovely.“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.”“For this will cure him that is sick, and rouse him that is in dumps; one that has loved, it will remember of it; one that has not, it will instruct. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. We’d love your help. , goes behind the scenes of a fiction...A tender novel describing eager and inept young love, Daphnis and Chloe tells the story of a baby boy and girl who are discovered separately, two years apart, alone and exposed on a Greek mountainside. One of the great ironies of world literature is that the sole extant novel by the Greek author Longus is actually quite short. What are Nymphs for? Extremely naive teenagers fall in love while goat/sheep herding and sloooowwwllllyyyyy explore their relationship. This was my first classical novel, having only read plays/poems beforehand. Daphnis & Chloe.