Heliodorus: The Aethiopica (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Athenian Society Heliodorus

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1331515726 ISBN 13: 9781331515722

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2019

Synopsis

Excerpt from Heliodorus: The Aethiopica

It is not in the early literature of Greece and Rome that the romance of love and adventure must be looked for. We can observe the remote origin of writings of this kind during the Attic period, we can follow its obscure development in the Alexandrine period, but it is not until the Roman period that its growth and perfection become perceptible.

We must not be surprised at the tardy recognition accorded by the ancients to a class of literature which is so popular amongst ourselves - distinguished from history by the admixture of fiction and the comparative unimportance of the events described; from poetry by the employment of prose and the representation of the manners of social life in place of the nearly always ideal picture of life in general.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1331515726
• ISBN 13: 9781331515722
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 421