Heliodorus
Subtitle: An Ethiopian Romance
Contributors: Moses Hadas (Introduction, Translator)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: March 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780812216721
Subjects: Other prose: classical, early & medieval; Literary; Greek Literature; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Fiction; Princesses; Classics; Fiction / Classics; Adventure stories; Ethiopia; Love stories
First sentence: DAY HAD BEGUN TO SMILE and the sun was shining upon the hilltops when a band of armed pirates scaled the mountain which extends to the mouth of the Nile called the Heracleot, where it empties into the sea.