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You will love this if you enjoy pastoral love stories, Greek myth and the countryside seasons, or if you are curious about how a nineteenth century novelist imagined the oldest courts of Asia.
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Picture a hunter on the island of Lesbos who wanders into a grove sacred to the Nymphs. There he finds a painting full of love: babies left in the wild, shepherds caring for them, young people falling for each other, robbers and an enemy raid. He finds someone to explain every scene and writes it all down.
That is how Longus, a Greek writer of the later ancient world, opens Daphnis and Chloe. This volume pairs it with Legends of the Ancient East by the Spanish writer Juan Valera. You get a kiss that sets a boy's heart on fire, pirates and charging cows, an old herdsman who names Love, and two unfinished tales of kings and dreams.
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- 1A goat and a ewe raise two foundlingsFree
- 2A bath and a kiss start an unnamed illness
- 3Dorcon's wolfskin trick and the pirates' raid
- 4Philetas names Love and offers three remedies
- 5War, the god Pan, and the rescue of Chloe
- 6Winter apart, a lesson from Lycaenion, and a purse
- 7The master's garden is wrecked and a rival schemes
- 8Love, nature and the gods carry the story
- 9Valera's essay makes the case for the ancient East
- 10Two unfinished tales: King Tihur and Estrianges
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A goat and a ewe raise two foundlings
The story opens in the countryside near Mytilene on Lesbos. A goatherd named Lamon sees one of his goats slip away from her own kid. He follows her and finds her nursing a baby boy, who lies in a purple blanket with a gold clasp beside a small ivory-hilted dagger.
Lamon thinks of taking the valuables and leaving the child. Then he feels ashamed to show less pity than a goat. He and his wife Myrtale adopt the boy and call him Daphnis.
Two years later the shepherd Dryas finds a ewe suckling a baby girl in a cave of the Nymphs. She wears embroidered cloths and gold bracelets. Dryas and his wife Nape raise her as Chloe. When Daphnis is fifteen, both old men dream that the Nymphs hand the pair to a winged boy with a bow, who orders them to become shepherds. The fathers obey the gods.
Love in this story begins with kindness shown to the helpless.
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- LengthAbout 73,900 words
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Questions about Daphnis et Chloé et Légendes de l’Orient ancien
What is Daphnis and Chloe about?
It tells of two foundlings, a boy nursed by a goat and a girl nursed by a ewe, who grow up as shepherds on Lesbos. Over four books they learn what love is through kisses, dangers, dreams and the help of the gods.
Who are Daphnis and Chloe?
Daphnis is a goatherd found as a baby by Lamon, and Chloe is a shepherdess found by Dryas in a cave of the Nymphs. Both were left with rich tokens, which hint that they come from higher families.
What are the Legends of the Ancient East?
They are an essay and two unfinished tales by Juan Valera. The essay explains his interest in Persia, India and Assyria, while Lulu, Princess of Zabulistan follows King Tihur and Zarina follows the Median nobleman Estrianges.
Who wrote Daphnis and Chloe and when?
Longus, a Greek author of the later ancient world, wrote it as a prose romance. Little is known about him, and the book is a work of fiction presented as the telling of a painting seen in a sacred grove.
What is the main message of Daphnis and Chloe?
Love is a natural force that must be learned, and it grows in simple, kind hearts. The story shows nature, the gods and old friends helping young people understand their feelings and find each other.
Cite this edition
Valera, Juan, and Longus. Daphnis and Chloe & Legends of the Ancient East. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/daphnis-and-chloe-legends-of-the-ancient-east.
Valera, J., & Longus. (2026). Daphnis and Chloe & legends of the ancient East. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/daphnis-and-chloe-legends-of-the-ancient-east
Valera, Juan, and Longus. Daphnis and Chloe & Legends of the Ancient East. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/daphnis-and-chloe-legends-of-the-ancient-east.
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