My writing has been greatly facilitated by the cooperation of the staff of the Vassar Library, especially of Miss Fanny Borden, Librarian, who has provided me with a study in the Library, patiently borrowed many books from other libraries for me and shown unfailing interest in my work. A constant stimulus to my writing has been the appreciation of my colleagues and students expressed in invitations to read different chapters of this volume to the Classical Journal Club and to the Classical Society. Finally my profound gratitude is due to the donors of the funds which made possible the publication of these Essays. _CONTENTS_ CHAPTER PAGE I. The Greek Romances and Their Re-dating. 1 II. Chariton’s _Chaereas and Callirhoe_. 14 III. The _Ephesiaca_ or _Habrocomes and Anthia_ by Xenophon of Ephesus. 38 IV. The _Aethiopica_ of Heliodorus. 61 V. _The Adventures of Leucippe and Clitophon_ by Achilles Tatius. 95 VI. _The Lesbian Pastorals of Daphnis and Chloe_ by Longus. 119 VII. Lucian and his Satiric Romances: the _True History_ and _Lucius or Ass_. 144 VIII. A Comparison of the Greek Romances and Apuleius’ _Metamorphoses_. 186 Index 203 ESSAYS ON THE GREEK ROMANCES I _THE GREEK ROMANCES AND THEIR RE-DATING_ The term “Greek Romances” is applied to long stories in Greek prose, written from the end of the first to the beginning of the fourth century before Christ and later imitated by Byzantine writers. It was one of these last, Nicetas Eugenianus, who prefixed to his own romance a prelude of verses which described their content: “Here read Drusilla’s fate and Charicles’— Flight, wandering, captures, rescues, roaring seas, Robbers and prisons, pirates, hunger’s grip; Dungeons so deep that never sun could dip His rays at noon-day to their dark recess, Chained hands and feet; and, greater heaviness, Pitiful partings. Last the story tells Marriage, though late, and ends with wedding bells.”[2]