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Daphnis and Chloe. Love Romances and Poetical Fragments. Fragments of the Ninus Romance (Loeb Classical Library)

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I'd read and enjoyed this ancient novel before in the amazing Collected Ancient Greek Novels. Now I'm about 2/3 of the way through JACT's Reading Greek 3 book set, so I bought this Loeb version to see how I could handle the Greek.

Not so good. Turns out like other Greek novelists Longus wrote long grammatically complicated sentences using a wide vocabulary. Well beyond my poor powers at this stage. Someday....

So. I'd recommend the Loeb if you like Loebs, or if you're an ancient Greek reader or intermediate to advanced student. If you're a baby-intermediate Greek student, Loeb's Josephus and Xenophon, are better bets.

If you just want a copy of this story, I think Reardon's Collected Ancient Greek Novels is a better deal. It has not just D and C, but ALL surviving ancient Greek novels, including fragments.