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Achilles Tatius [Achilleus Statios, Achilles Statius], Trans. Tim Whitmarsh

Leucippe and Clitophon

Oxford University Press, 2003

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Year of publication
2003
ISBN
0192804278
Place of printing
Oxford
Author
Achilles Tatius [Achilleus Statios, Achilles Statius]
Publishers
Oxford University Press
Keyword
GREEK ROMANCES
Illustrator
Trans. Tim Whitmarsh
Binding description
S
Dust jacket
No
State of preservation
Fine
Binding
Softcover
Inscribed
No
First edition
No

Description

'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.