Author: ACHILLES TATIUS [ACHILLEUS STATIOS, ACHILLES STATIUS]
Title: Leucippe and Clitophon
Description: Oxford, Oxford University Press. 2003. (ISBN: 0192804278) Soft cover. Ill.: Trans. Tim Whitmarsh. Book, 'Her mouth was like the bloom of a rose, when the rose begins to part the lips of its petals. As soon as I saw, I was done for.All my dreams were of Leucippe.' Achilles Tatius' Leucippe and Clitophon is the most bizarre and risque of the five 'Greek novels' of idealized love between boy and girl that survive from the period of the Roman empire. Stretching the capacity of the genre to its limits, Achilles' narrative covers adultery, violence, evisceration, pederasty, virginity-testing, and (of course) an improbable happy ending. Ingenious and sophisticated in conception, Leucippe and Clitophon is in execution at once subtle, stylish, moving, brash, tasteless, and obscene. This new translation aims to capture Achilles' writing in all its exuberant variety. A new translation by Tim Whitmarsh. Introduction by Helen Morales (Introduction byHelen Morales. 164p. Fine.

Keywords: 0192804278 Trans. Tim Whitmarshgreek Romances


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