Longus, sometimes Longos ( Greek: Λόγγος), was the author of an ancient Greek novel or romance, Daphnis and Chloe. Nothing is known of his life; it is assumed that he lived on the isle of Lesbos (setting for Daphnis and Chloe) during the 2nd century AD.

It has been suggested that the name Longus is merely a misinterpretation of the first word of Daphnis and Chloe's title Λεσβιακῶν ἐρωτικῶν λόγοι ("story of a Lesbian romance", "Lesbian" for "from Lesbos island") in the Florentine manuscript; EE Seiler observes that the best manuscript begins and ends with λόγου (not λόγγου) ποιμενικῶν. ^{[1] [2]}

If his name was really Longus, he was possibly a freedman of some Roman family which bore that name as a cognomen.

See also

Other ancient Greek novelists:

• Chariton - The Loves of Chaereas and Callirhoe
• Xenophon of Ephesus - The Ephesian Tale
• Achilles Tatius - Leucippe and Clitophon
• Heliodorus of Emesa - The Aethiopica

References

External links

• Media related to Longus at Wikimedia Commons
• Works by Longus at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Longus at Internet Archive
• Works by Longus at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
• Longus at the Bibliotheca Augustana