Ebook: The Virgin and Her Lover: Fragments of an Ancient Greek Novel and a Persian Epic Poem (Brill Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures) (Brill Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures)

Starting from the author's discovery that the Persian epic poem Vamiq and Adhra by Unsuri (11th century AD) derives from the ancient Greek novel of "Metiokhos and Parthenope", this work contains critical editions of the Greek and Persian fragments and testimonia, with comments.