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‘The latest creation of the Greek genius was the novel, or erotic romance. It may have originated as early as the 1^st century BC[E];* but its roots reach back to such plays of triumphant love as the lost Andromeda** of Euripides, to the New Comedy,*** to Xenophon’s daydreams about the eduction of Cyrus, and to the largely fictitious narratives that were one extreme of what passed for history from the 3^rd century BC[E] onward....**** All [the examples given]# deal with true loves separated by innumerable examples of human wickedness and natural catastrophe and then finally united. Daphnis and Chloe by Longus (between 2^nd and 3^rd century AS[CE]) stands apart from the others because of its pastoral, rather than quasi-historical, setting.’

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#*– ibid [Encyclopaedia Britannica 20:] 404

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