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Leucippe and Clitophon

Leucippe and Clitophon

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Series: Oxford World's Classics

Literary CriticismAncient History General

Publisher Price: $13.95

ISBN10: 0199555478
ISBN13: 9780199555475
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Sep 28 2009
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.60
Language: English
Achilles Tatius' Leucippe and Clitophon is the most bizarre and risqué of the five Greek novels of idealized love between boy and girl that survive from the time of the Roman empire. Stretching the capacity of the genre to its limits, Achilles' narrative covers adultery, violence, disembowelment, pederasty, virginity-testing, and a conveniently happy ending. Ingenious and sophisticated in conception, Leucippe and Clitophon is at once subtle, stylish, moving, brash, tasteless, and obscene. This new translation aims to capture Achilles' writing in all its exuberant variety.

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