Daphnis and Chloe. Love Romances and Poetical Fragments. Fragments of the Ninus Romance (Loeb Classical Library)

Vintage book, missing dust jacket. Green cloth covered boards with gold print on front and spine. Boards show wear and stains. Pages are clean and unmarked. Loeb Classical Library, 1916 edition but 1955 printing, ISBN: 9780674990760, 423 pages. 12mo [4.25" x 6.5") Dual language publication, with the original Greek on even numbered pages, and English translation on facing pages. Some sexually frank passages are not given in English translation but in Latin. Daphnis and Chloe, by Longus, translated by George Thornley, revised and augmented by J. M. Edmonds. The Love Romances of Parthenius and other Fragments, translated by S. Gaselee. Longus lived about 200 CE; he is known to us only by his novel Daphnis and Chloe. This is the bucolic story of two foundlings, brought up by goatkeepers and shepherds on the island of Lesbos, who gradually fall in love. Parthenius of Nicaea in Bithynia, a Greek poet, was brought to Rome in 73 BCE as a prisoner of war. After his release he settled in Italy and worked as poet and teacher. Virgil was one of his students. Parthenius's poetry is lost, and his only extant work is Love Romances, an anthology of prose summaries of love stories from Greek literature, collected apparently for the use of Roman poets.