Product DescriptionAchilles Tatius' Leucippe and Clitophon is the most bizarre and risqué of the five "Greek novels" of idealized love between boy and girl that survive from the time of the Roman empire. Stretching the capacity of the genre to its limits, Achilles' narrative covers adultery, violence,disembowelment, pederasty, virginity-testing, and a conveniently happy ending. Ingenious and sophisticated in conception, Leucippe and Clitophon is at once subtle, stylish, moving, brash, tasteless, and obscene. This new translation aims to capture Achilles' writing in all its exuberantvariety.About the AuthorTim Whitmarsh is Leverhulme Lecturer in Hellenistic Literature at the University of Exeter. Helen Morales is Lecturer in Classics and a Fellow of Newnham College, Cambridge University.