University of Arkansas. Fall, 2004. Greek 575
Daphnis and Chloe (Longus)
Professor D. B. Levine
Illustration: Daphnis takes the cricket out of Chloe's bosom (Longus, Daphnis and Chloe 1.26). P. P. Prudhon, engraved by B. Roger, 1802.
Short Bibliography. Daphnis and Chloe and The Ancient Novel
Students will use the list below to choose secondary works to read and summarize.
Be sure to consult the "Select Bibliography" in the Translation of Daphnis and Chloe by Ronald McCail, pages xxxvi-xxxix. This includes some interesting articles on Daphnis and Chloe.
A Study of Daphnis and Chloe, by R. L. Hunter
Cambridge Univ., 1983 MULLINS LIBRARY PA4229 L9 H 86 1983
[4 Chapters: Title, author, date; The constituent elements; The literary texture; Language and style.]
Longus, by William E. McCulloh
Twayne, 1970. MULLINS LIBRARY PA 4229 L9 M3
[9 Chapters: 'Primitive Literature,' Romance, Euphues, Green Thoughts, Pastoral Infusions, Hybrid Virtues I: Divine Immanence, Soundings, Hybrid Virtues II: Arcadia, Second Thoughts.]
Some Ancient Novels, by F. A. Todd. Oxford, 1940. MULLINS LIBRARY PA3040T6
[4 Lectures: Leucippe and Clitophon, Daphnis and Chloe (pp. 34-64), Satiricon, The Golden Ass]
The Ancient Novel: An Introduction, by Niklas Holzberg.
Routledge, 1995 (1986, orig. German ed.) MULLINS LIBRARY PA3040.H6513 1995
[5 Chapters: The genre, the rise of the genre, the Idealistic Novel in Early Imperial Times, The Comic-realistic novel, the Idealistic Novel in the Age of the Second Sophistic (including: "Sexual Psychology and Bucolic Paradise: Longus, Daphnis and Chloe" 93-99.]
The Novel before the Novel: Essays and Discussions about the beginnings of Prose Fiction in the West, by Arthur Heiserman
Univ. of Chicago, 1977. MULLINS LIBRARY PA 3040.H38 1977.
[Ten Chapters: Erotic Suffering, Resourceless Jason, Discussion One, Bits and Epitomes, Discussion Two, Aphrodisian Chastity, Discussion three, Antonine Comedy (this has a long section on Daphnis and Chloe, pages 117-145), Discussion Four, Divine Romance.]
The Novel in Antiquity, by Thomas Hägg
Univ. of California, 1983 (orig. 1980, in Swedish). MULLINS LIBRARY PA3040 .H29 1983.
[8 Chapters: The Novel in Antiquity: A Contradiction in Terms?, The Ideal Greek Novel (includes section on Daphnis and Chloe: 35-41), The Social Background and the First Readers of the Novel, The Literary Pedigree of the Novel, From Historical Novel to Medieval 'Popular Book', The New Heroes: Apostles, Martyrs and Saints, The roman Comic Novel, The Renaissance of the Greek Novel (includes section on 'Longus, Goethe's Favourite,' pages 212-214). Also includes PICTORIAL SUPPLEMENT: DAPHNIS AND CHLOE IN THE MIRROR OR ART: pages 214-227.]
Sexual Symmetry: Love in the Ancient Novel and Related Genres, by David Konstan.
Princeton Univ. Press, 1994. MULLINS LIBRARY PA3040.K66 1994
[6 Chapters: The Greek Novel: Sexual Symmetry (includes a section on Daphnis and Chloe), Greek Novels: Variations on a Type (includes a section on Daphnis and Chloe: 'Longus: Passion and Puberty,' pages 79-91), Roman Novels: Unequal Love, Before the Novel: Passion and Power, Modern Novels: the Division of Desire, Conclusion.]
The Ancient Romances: A Literary-Historical Account of their Origins, by Ben Edwin Perry.
Univ. of Calif. Press, 1967.
[7 Chapters: Greek romance and the Problem of Forms and Origins, The form romance in Historical Perspective, Chariton and the Nature of Greek Romance, The Birth of the Ideal Greek Romance, Petronius and his Satyricon, Lucian's Metamorphoses, Apuleius and his Metamorphoses. It's short on Longus.]
The Search for the Ancient Novel, edited by James Tatum.
Johns Hopkins, 1994 MULLINS LIBRARY PA 3040.S4 1994.
[24 ESSAYS: The invention of Romance, Genre of Genre, Tasso's Heliodorus and the World of Romance, Homage to Apuleius: Cervantes' Avenging Psyche, Novels beyond Thule: Antonius Diogenes, Rabelais, Cervantes, Heliodorus Rewritten: Samuel Richardson's Clarissa and Frances Burney's Wanderer, Muthos ou Logos: Longus's Lesbian Pastorals (pages 135-148), Gardens of Desire in Longus's Daphnis and Chloe: Nature, Art, and Imitation (pages 148-175), Apollonius, King of Tyre and the Greek Novel, Telling the True Story of the Trojan War: The Eyewitness Account of Dictys of Crete, Longus, Natural History, and Realism (pages 199-216), The City in the Greek Novel, Trimalchio's Underworld, Women and Marriage in the Greek Novels: the Boundaries of Romance, Novel and Aretalogy, The social World of the Acts of Peter, Ancient and Contemporary in Byzantine Novels, A Legacy of the Alexander Romance in Arab Writings: Al-Iskandar, Founder of Alexandria, From Apuleius' Psyche to Chretien's Erec and Enide, The Reemergence of Greek Prose Fiction in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, From Interlude in Arcady to Daphnis and Chloe: Two Thousand Years of Erotic Fantasy, Who Read Ancient Novels?, The Roman Audience of The Golden Ass, The Readership of Greek Novels in the Ancient World.]