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Achilles Tatius: Leucippe and ClitophonOxford World's Classics Achilles Tatius' Leucippe and Clitophon is the most bizarre and risqu of the five 'Greek novels' of idealized love between boy and girl that survive from the period of the Roman empire. Stretching the capacity of the genre to its limits, Achilles' narrative covers adultery, violence, evisceration, pederasty, virginity testing, and (of course) an improbable happy ending. Ingenious and sophisticated in conception, Leucippe and

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literary and cultural context

he vividly records the critical stages of Roman expansion: its campaigns throughout the Mediterranean

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the leading playwright of the New Comedy

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and archaeological issues at the heart of the Iliad and the Odyssey

Featuring expansive introductions to each play and detailed explanatory notes

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with Introduction

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