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Longus

Longus was a Greek prose author traditionally associated with the pastoral romance Daphnis and Chloe.

Little is known securely about Longus, but Daphnis and Chloe survives as one of the major ancient Greek novels. The story presents love, education, pastoral landscape, separation, recognition and social discovery in a stylised rural world.

For the site, Longus belongs in Classical for pages on ancient fiction, Greek romance and pastoral literature. His work helps distinguish ancient novels from modern historical fiction while showing the narrative forms available in antiquity.