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,
this work has proved an enduringly fertile source of inspiration for musicians, writers and
artists from Henry Fielding to Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot and Maurice Ravel.
Longus transforms familiar themes from the romance genre including pirates, dreams, and the
supernatural into a virtuoso love story that is rich in insight, humorous and ironical in
its treatment of human sexual experience.

Translated and introduced by Paul Turner. This translation first published 1956.

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