Longus
Ancient Greek writer
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Longus, sometimes Longos (), was the author of an ancient Greek novel or romance, Daphnis and Chloe. Nothing is known of his life; it is assumed that he lived on the isle of Lesbos (setting for Daphnis and Chloe) during the 2nd century AD.
It has been suggested that the name Longus is merely a misinterpretation of the first word of *Daphnis and Chloe'''s title Λεσβιακῶν ἐρωτικῶν λόγοι ("story of a Lesbian romance", "Lesbian" for "from Lesbos island") in the Florentine manuscript; EE Seiler observes that the best manuscript begins and ends with λόγου (not λόγγου) *ποιμενικῶν''.
If his name was really Longus, he was possibly a freedman of some Roman family which bore that name as a cognomen.
References
References
- (1843). "Longi pastoralia".
- (1829). "Longi Pastoralia".
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