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The Legend of Phatta in Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe
- American Journal of Philology
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 133, Number 4 (Whole Number 532), Winter 2012
- pp. 573-600
- 10.1353/ajp.2012.0034
- Article
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Abstract
The legend of Phatta, as narrated by Longus in Daphnis and Chloe (1.27), intertwines aesthetic, psychological, religious, and narratological aspects. It is linked with Aphrodite and love, with Kore-Persephone-Pherephatta and death, and with Orpheus and music. But this intricate narrative, which plays upon narrators and audience, fiction and art, is also a subtle and complex synthesis of Theocritean bucolic enshrined in the original prose form of an aetiological legend.
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