Longus
Ancient Greek writer
Longus, sometimes Longos (Greek: Λόγγος), was the author of an ancient Greek novel or romance, Daphnis and Chloe. Nothing is known of his life; it is assumed that he lived on the isle of Lesbos (setting for Daphnis and Chloe) during the 2nd century AD.
It has been suggested that the name Longus is merely a misinterpretation of the first word of Daphnis and Chloe's title Λεσβιακῶν ἐρωτικῶν λόγοι ("story of a Lesbian romance", "Lesbian" for "from Lesbos island") in the Florentine manuscript; EE Seiler observes that the best manuscript begins and ends with λόγου (not λόγγου) ποιμενικῶν.[1][2]
If his name was really Longus, he was possibly a freedman of some Roman family which bore that name as a cognomen.
See also
Other ancient Greek novelists:
- Chariton - The Loves of Chaereas and Callirhoe
- Xenophon of Ephesus - The Ephesian Tale
- Achilles Tatius - Leucippe and Clitophon
- Heliodorus of Emesa - The Aethiopica
References
External links
Media related to Longus at Wikimedia Commons- Works by Longus at Project Gutenberg
- Works by or about Longus at Internet Archive
- Works by Longus at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
- Longus at the Bibliotheca Augustana
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Ancient Greek novels and novelists
- Aethiopica by Heliodorus of Emesa
- Chaereas and Callirhoe by Chariton
- Daphnis and Chloe by Longus
- Ephesian Tale by Xenophon of Ephesus
- Leucippe and Clitophon by Achilles Tatius
- Alexander Romance by Pseudo-Callisthenes
- Babyloniaca by Iamblichus
- Metiochus and Parthenope
- A True Story by Lucian
- The Wonders Beyond Thule by Antonius Diogenes
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