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Posted by Rail Blue on Thu Aug 30 07:15:28 2007, in response to Re: nonsense about atheism, posted by David Fairthorne on Tue Aug 28 00:42:27 2007. Xenophon of Ephesus is known for a novel called "The Ephesian Tale of Anthia and Habrocomes". Young newlyweds are taken as slaves and separated. They face dreadful perils in their attempts to remain true to each other and reunite.What I was alluding to is that they worshipped an awful lot of gods in that novel (including Isis), but what got them into the difficulties in the first place was Habrocomes irritating Eros (!!!) by not believing in him. Based on the plot as described in Wiki, it all sounds pretty exciting to me! It reads a bit too much like a fairytale -- it is a work of absolutely no literary finesse whatsoever. But it is a good story! I can't seem to find an e-text of it anywhere, but an English translation (which I find slightly overly literal) exists in print in Collected Ancient Greek Novels, which unsurprisingly includes quite a few similarly awful/enjoyable literary works (Contents Page, along with pp125-8 here). |
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