Daphnis and Chloe

Paul Turner’s distinguished translation retains the beauty and elegance of Longus’ original, while his introduction sets the work in context and outlines the history of the text.

A tender novel describing eager and inept young love, Daphnis and Chloe tells the story of a baby boy and girl who are discovered separately, two years apart, alone and exposed on a Greek mountainside. Taken in by a goatherd and a shepherd respectively, and raised near the town of Mytilene, they grow…