True — Xenophon of Ephesus, Chariton, Achilles Tatius can be tiresome... good bedtime reading. But Longus and (for very different reasons) Heliodorus are in another league!

For koine, the Greek Novelists are also lovely. The quality varies but Longus in particular is stunning — a masterpiece of pseudo-naive plain style (with intermittent flights of Gorgianic patterning — perhaps like English Euphuists, but better?). Goethe apparently read Longus every year.

Greetings followers ! My translations of two stories by Patrizia Cavalli are now up at The Arkansas International !

www.arkint.org/magazine/tag...

The latest issue of Literary Matters is out. It has two of my translations of the Triestine poet Virgilio Giotti — along with many beautiful pieces by the likes of Elijah Blumov, Ryan Wilson, Hailey Leithauser and more!

www.literarymatters.org/issue-18-1/