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  • 35 - Country Virtues, City Vices in Longus, Daphnis and Chloe? (2009)

  • Ewen Bowie, University of Oxford
  • Book:
    Essays on Ancient Greek Literature and Culture
    Published online:
    10 October 2023
    Print publication:
    27 July 2023, pp 686-695

  • Summary

    This chapter argues that, unlike Dio in his Euboean Oration, in which the countryside is always presented positively and the city almost wholly negatively, Longus does not make his rustics entirely virtuous or his city-dwellers wholly bad. I differentiated between virtues of ἦθος, ‘character’, and virtues of πρᾶξις, ‘action’, illustrating the differences between those of the country and of the city by an analytical table. I noted especially Longus’ presentation of piety and impiety, of deception and of artifice, and of fear and boldness, concluding that the country’s vices prompt readers to reflection as much as do its virtues.