Greek Fiction: Callirhoe, Daphnis and Chloe, Letters of Chion

Three works of fiction from Ancient Greece, with an introduction by Helen Morales

In this collection of Greek fiction written between the first and fourth centuries AD, ‘Callirhoe’ is the stirring tale of star-crossed lovers Chaereas and Callirhoe, torn apart when she is kidnapped and sold as a slave, while ‘Daphnis and Chloe’ tells of a boy and girl abandoned at birth, who grow up to fall in love and battle pirates. Greek Fiction - also containing ‘Letters of Chion’, an early thriller about tyranny and a political assassination - is a fascinating glimpse into an alternative view of Ancient Greece’s literary culture.