LEUCIPPE AND CLITOPHON | Book Preview
Get a taste of the ancient novel LEUCIPPE AND CLITOPHON with selected quotes from an early passage of the work, when the protagonists flee the city of Tyre!
📜 Leucippe and Clitophon by Achilles Tatius is estimated to have been written early in 2nd century CE. It is one of the five surviving Ancient Greek romances, notable for its apparent mild parodic nature.
📖 The featured quotes are from the 1917 translation by Stephen Gaselee.
Links to the full work:
➡️ Internet Archive:
https://archive.org/details/achillest...
➡️ Amazon US (ebook):
https://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Leu...
➡️ Amazon UK (ebook):
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Adventures-L...
➡️ Book Depository
https://www.bookdepository.com/Leucip...
More links:
➡️ Leucippe and Clitophon
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leucipp...
➡️ Achilles Tatius (author):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achille...
➡️ Ancient Greek Novels:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient...
🖼️ Background artwork by Jean-François de Troy (1716)