Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from An Aethiopian Romance
Of Heliodorus we know almost as little as we know of Homer. The story that he was the Christian bishop of Tricca, who held that see toward the end of the fourth century a.d., and being given the choice be tween his diocese and his book preferred the latter, is a pleasing fable now generally discredited. His date should probably be placed about the beginning of the third century of our era, and the only real facts in our possession concerning him are those given on the last page of his book: Here ends the history of the Ethiopian adventures of Theagenes and Chariclea written by Heliodorus, a Phoenician of Emesus, son of Theodosius, and descended from the Sun.'
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