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Beschreibung

A charming Greek romance narrated by its hero.

Achilles Tatius was a Greek from Alexandria in Egypt; he is now believed to have flourished in the second century AD. Of his life nothing is known, though the Suidas says he became a Christian and a bishop and wrote a work on etymology, one on the sphere, and an account of great men. He is famous however for his surviving novel in eight books, The Adventures of Leucippe and Clitophon, one of the best Greek love stories. Clitophon relates to a friend the various difficulties which he and Leucippe had to overcome before they are happily united. The story is full of incident and readers are kept in suspense. There are many digressions giving scientific facts, myths, meditations, and so on, the interest of which redeems irrelevance.

A charming Greek romance narrated by its hero.

Achilles Tatius was a Greek from Alexandria in Egypt; he is now believed to have flourished in the second century AD. Of his life nothing is known, though the Suidas says he became a Christian and a bishop and wrote a work on etymology, one on the sphere, and an account of great men. He is famous however for his surviving novel in eight books, The Adventures of Leucippe and Clitophon, one of the best Greek love stories. Clitophon relates to a friend the various difficulties which he and Leucippe had to overcome before they are happily united. The story is full of incident and readers are kept in suspense. There are many digressions giving scientific facts, myths, meditations, and so on, the interest of which redeems irrelevance.

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Achilles Tatius
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 1989
Genre: Importe, Musik
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Thema: Musiktheorie & Musiklehre
Medium: Buch
Reihe: Loeb Classical Library
Inhalt: Einband - fest (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780674990500
ISBN-10: 0674990501
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Achilles Tatius
Übersetzung: Gaselee, Stephen
Hersteller: Harvard University Press
Loeb Classical Library
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 171 x 116 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Achilles Tatius
Erscheinungsdatum: 31.01.1969
Gewicht: 0,35 kg
Artikel-ID: 121212176