A masterpiece among early Greek romances A tender novel describing eager and inept young love, Daphnis and Chloe tells the story of a baby boy and girl who are discovered separately, two years apart, alone and exposed on a Greek mountainside. Taken in by a goatherd and a shepherd respectively, and raised near the town of Mytilene, they grow to maturity unaware of one another's existence - until the mischievous god of love, Eros, creates in them a sudden overpowering desire for one another. A masterpiece among early Greek romances, attracting both high praise and moral disapproval,...
A masterpiece among early Greek romances A tender novel describing eager and inept young love, Daphnis and Chloe tells the story of a baby ...
In seventeen volumes, copublished with Baylor University, this acclaimed series features annotated texts of all of Robert Browning s known writing. The series encompasses autobiography as well as influences bearing on Browning s life and career and aspects of Victorian thought and culture.? A single work, the complex "Aristophanes Apology" (1875), comprises the twelfth volume of "The Complete Works of Robert Browning." Second in Browning s series of long narrative poems based on classical Greek materials, Aristophanes Apology begins as a further adventure of Browning s young Greek...
In seventeen volumes, copublished with Baylor University, this acclaimed series features annotated texts of all of Robert Browning s known writing. Th...