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[[Image:Daphnis Chloe Cortot Louvre CC171.jpg|right|thumb|''Daphnis and Chloe'' by [[Jean-Pierre Cortot]]]]
'''Longus''', sometimes '''Longos''' ([[Greek language|Greek]]: Λόγγος), was a [[Greece|Greek]] [[novelist]] and [[romance (genre)|romance]]r, and author of ''[[Daphnis and Chloe]]''. Very little is known of his life, and it is assumed that he lived on the isle of [[Lesbos]] (setting for ''Daphnis and Chloe'') during the [[2nd century|2nd century AD]]
It has been suggested that the name Longus is merely a misinterpretation of the last word of ''Daphnis and Chloe'''s title ''Λεσβιακῶν ἐρωτικῶν λόγοι δ'' in the Florentine manuscript; Seiler also observes that the best manuscript begins and ends with ''λόγου'' (not ''λόγγου'') ''ποιμενικῶν''. If his name was really Longus, he was probably a [[Roman slavery|freedman]] of some Roman family which bore that name as a [[cognomen]].
==See also==
Other ancient Greek novelists:
* [[Chariton]] - The Loves of Chaereas and Callirhoe
* [[Xenophon of Ephesus]] - The [[Ephesian Tale]]
* [[Achilles Tatius]] - [[Leucippe and Clitophon]]
* [[Heliodorus of Emesa]] - The Aethiopica
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