The Greek Romances _Date_ _Author_ _Title_ I Century B.C. Unknown The Ninus Romance (frag.) Before A.D. 150 Chariton of Chaereas and Callirhoe Aphrodisias II Century A.D. Lucian of Samosata A True History Lucius or Ass (an epitome of the lost _Metamorphoses_) II-III Centuries Xenophon of Ephesus Ephesiaca, Habrocomes and A.D. Anthia II-III Centuries Heliodorus of Emesa Aethiopica, Theagenes and A.D. Chariclea II-III Centuries Longus Daphnis and Chloe A.D. About A.D. 300 Achilles Tatius of Clitophon and Leucippe Alexandria _Byzantine_ XII Century A.D. Eustathius Hysmine and Hysminias XII Century A.D. Nicetas Eugenianus Charicles and Drusilla (verse) XII Century A.D. Theodorus Prodromus Dosicles and Rhodanthe (verse) XII Century A.D. Constantine Aristander and Callithea Manasses (verse) Also known by translation or abstract II-III Centuries Unknown Apollonius of Tyre (Latin A.D. translation) II-III Centuries Iamblichus, a Babyloniaca, Rhodanes and A.D. Syrian Sinonis (abstract in Photius) II-III Centuries Antonius Diogenes The Wonderful Things A.D. beyond Thule (abstract in Photius) Not before A.D. pseudo-Callisthenes Alexander Romance 300 It is to be observed that from internal evidence Xenophon of Ephesus probably came before Heliodorus. Longus is _sui generis_, and so stands apart from the typical genre of the novels; in fact is a unique specimen of another type, the pastoral romance. The new discoveries from the papyri with the consequent re-dating of all known material has given a strong impetus to new study of Greek Romances; new editions of text with translation are being brought out by English, French, Italian and American scholars.[24] The introductions to some of these editions, especially those of Calderini and Dalmeyda, are the first distinguished literary work in the field since Rohde with the exception of Samuel Lee Wolff’s monograph on _The Greek Romances in Elizabethan Prose Fiction_, New York, 1912.