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Love, Gender, and Gentrification: thematic reversals at junctional narrative points in Longus’ Daphnis and Cloe. While Longus addresses many of the same themes as other authors belonging to what is known as the Second Sophistic tradition, his narrative technique seemingly seeks to conceal rather than parade his command of the literary, philosophical, and cultural traditions embodied in his novel. Moreover, his narrative often reverses the traditional roles in which these themes are frequently presented. This is particularly noticeable in his treatment of the multiples aspects of love, gender roles, and the tensions (or false dichotomies) between rural and urban mindsets. Typically conveyed in a deceptively naïve manner, the intersections of these concepts are rich both in meaning and intertextuality. It is my intention to explore select passages in Longus to examine these intersections more closely using secondary sources to demonstrate the complexity of themes the author touches on, and the deft manner in which he weaves them into the narrative. 

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Mahou shoujo interfering with my academic progress!

Supposed to concentrate on writing these last eight days before my Classics 191 paper is due, instead I'm focussed on the next two days before the Downtown Los Angeles premier of The Rebellion Story.

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Crunch time going into Week 8 of F13. #UCLA @UCLA #Classics191 pic.twitter.com/ArK6U52Lky

— Robert D. Skeels (@rdsathene) November 17, 2013

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City-dwellers of later antiquity, like their counterparts today, were apt to think of the countryside in terms of idyllic and statics scenes — cattle lowing, rivers babbling, happy harvesters and so on. In ancient literature we may trace this from the rural scenes of the Shield of Achilles (Iliad 18.541-86) to the rhetorical of the late Empire.

Hunter, R L. A Study of Daphnis & Chloe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Print. (5)

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Longus 2.7