Daphnis and Chloe

Bibliography

Manuscripts

  • F or A: Florentinus Laurentianus Conventi Soppressi 627 (XIII) — complete, discovered at Florence by P. L. Courier in 1809.
  • V or B: Vaticanus Graecus 1348 (XVI) — mostly complete; the lacuna comprises chapters 12 to 17 of the first book.
  • O: Olomucensis M 79 (XV) — gnomic passages.

Editions

  • Columbani, Raphael; Henry Cuffe and Marcello Adriani (1598). Longi Pastoralium, de Daphnide & Chloë libri quatuor. Juntine Edition. Florence: Apud Philippum Iunctam. — The editio princeps.
  • Mitscherlich, Christoph Wilhelm (1794). Longi Pastoralium de Daphnide et Chloe Libri IV Graece et Latine. Scriptores erotici Graeci III. Bipontine Edition. — With Latin translation.
  • Courier, Paul Louis (1810). — Contained a previously unknown passage (the great lacuna, comprising chapters 12 to 17 of the first book), after the discovery of MS. F (above).
  • Courier, Paul Louis (1829). Longi Pastoralia. Paris. — First complete Greek text of Daphnis and Chloe, edited by P.-L. Courier, with a Latin translation by G. R. Ludwig de Sinner.
  • Seiler, Schaefer (1843). Longi Pastoralia. Leipzig: Boissonade & Brunck. — Greek text of Daphnis and Chloe with a Latin translation.
  • Hirschig, G. A. (1856). Erotici Scriptores. Paris, 1856. — Greek text with Latin translation, pp. 174–222.
  • Longus, Literally and Completely Translated from the Greek. The Athenian Society IV. Athens: Privately printed. 1896. — With English translation.
  • Edmonds, John Maxwell (1916). Daphnis & Chloe, by Longus; The Love Romances of Parthenius and Other Fragments. Loeb Classical Library 69. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. ISBN 0-674-99076-5. — With English translation revised from that of George Thornley.
  • Dalmeyda, Georges (1971) [1934]. Pastorales (Daphnis et Chloe) / Longus. Collection des universités de France. Paris: Belles Lettres. — With French translation.
  • Viellefond, Jean-René (1987). Pastorales (Daphnis et Chloé) / Longus. Collection des universités de France. Paris: Belles Lettres. — With French translation.
  • Reeve, Michael D. (1994) [1982]. Daphnis et Chloe / Longus. Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana (Editio correctior ed.). Stuttgart: Teubner. ISBN 3-8154-1932-8. — Reeve's text is reprinted with the translation and commentary by Morgan (see below).
  • Henderson, Jeffrey (2009). Longus: Daphnis and Chloe / Xenophon of Ephesus: Anthia and Habrocomes. Loeb Classical Library 69 (new ed.). Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-99633-5. — Side-by-side Greek text and English translation.

Translations

  • Annibale Caro, Amori pastorali di Dafni e Cloe (Parma, 1784, but written before 1538) — into Italian
  • Jacques Amyot, Les Pastorales ou Daphnis et Chloé (Paris, 1559); revised by Paul Louis Courier (1810) — into French

English translations

  • Daye, Angell (1587). Daphnis and Chloe. London: Robert Waldegrave. Reprinted and edited by Joseph Jacobs (London, 1890).
  • Thornley, George (1657). Daphnis and Chloe: A Most Sweet, and Pleasant Pastorall Romance for Young Ladies. — A revised version is printed with Edmonds's text (see above).
  • Craggs, James (1764). The Pastoral Amours of Daphnis and Chloe.
  • Le Grice, C. V. (1803). Daphnis and Chloe: A Pastoral Novel. — Published anonymously, with omissions
  • Daphnis and Chloe: A Pastoral Romance. London: Vizetelly & Co. 1890. — Anonymous revision of Le Grice.
  • Smith, Rowland (1848). The Greek Romances of Heliodorus, Longus and Achilles Tatius. Bohn's Classical Library. London.
  • Lowe, W. D. (1908). The Story of Daphnis and Chloe. Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co.
  • Moore, George (1924). The Pastoral Loves of Daphnis and Chloe. London: William Heinemann.
  • Hadas, Moses (1953). Three Greek Romances. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill. ISBN 978-0-672-60442-3.
  • Turner, Paul (1989) [1956]. Longus: Daphnis and Chloe. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth: Penguin. ISBN 978-0-14-044059-1.
  • Gill, Christopher (1989). "Longus: Daphnis and Chloe". In Bryan P. Reardon (ed.). Collected Ancient Greek Novels. Berkeley, California: University of California Press. pp. 285–348. ISBN 978-0-520-04306-0.
  • McCail, Ronald (2002). Daphnis and Chloe. Oxford World's Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-284052-3.
  • Morgan, J. R. (2004). Longus: Daphnis and Chloe. Aris and Phillips Classical Texts. Oxford: Oxbow Books. ISBN 978-0-85668-562-0. — With reprint of Reeve's text and a commentary.
  • Tyrrell, Wm. Blake (n.d.). "Daphnis and Chloe: A Novel by Longus". University of North Carolina Wilmington.
  • Humphreys, Nigel (2015). The Love Song of Daphnis and Chloe. Circaidy Gregory Press. ISBN 978-1-906451-88-2. — In the form of an epic poem.

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