{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0554.tlg001.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0554.tlg001.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0554.tlg001.local001","title":"De Chaerea et Callirhoe","titleGreek":null,"alternateTitles":[],"author":"Chariton","authorityName":"CHARITON Scr. Erot.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0554-chariton/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0554-chariton/","editors":["Rudolf Hercher"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Trustees of Tufts University","sourceTitle":"Erotici Scriptores Graeci","edition":null,"publisher":"Teubner","place":"Leipzig","date":"1859","volume":"2","series":null,"citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":null,"url":null},"provenance":{"authority":"Perseus Project","sponsors":["Perseus Project, Tufts University"],"funders":["Google Digital Humanities Awards Program"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Prepared under the supervision of","names":["Lisa Cerrato","Rashmi Singhal","Bridget Almas"]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/erotiknlognsyng02hercgoog/page/n6","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Chariton. De Chaerea et Callirhoe. ed. Rudolf Hercher. Erotici Scriptores Graeci, Leipzig, Teubner, 1859. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0554.tlg001.local001","excerpt":"Χαρίτων Ἀφροδισιεύς, Ἀθηναγόρου τοῦ ῥήτορος ὑπογραφεύς, πάθος ἐρωτικὸν ἐν Συρακούσαις γενόμενον διηγήσομαι. Ἑρμοκράτης, ὁ Συρακουσίων στρατηγός, οὗτος ὁ νικήσας Ἀθηναίους, εἶχε θυγατέρα Καλλιρρόην τοὔνομα, θαυμαστόν τι χρῆμα παρθένου καὶ ἄγαλμα τῆς ὅλης Σικελίας· ἦν γὰρ τὸ κάλλος οὐκ ἀνθρώπινον ἀλλὰ θεῖον, οὐδὲ Νηρηίδος ἢ Νύμφης τῶν ὀρειῶν ἀλλ’ αὐτῆς Ἀφροδίτης. Φήμη δὲ τοῦ παραδόξου θεάματος πανταχοῦ διέτρεχε καὶ μνηστῆρες κατέρρεον εἰς Συρακούσας, δυνασταί τε καὶ παῖδες τυράννων, οὐκ ἐκ Σικελίας μόνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ ἐξ Ἰταλίας καὶ Ἠπείρου καὶ νήσων τῶν ἐν Ἠπείρῳ. Ὁ δ’ Ἔρως ζεῦγος ἴδιον ἠθέλησε συμπλέξαι. Χαιρέας γάρ τις ἦν μειράκιον εὔμορφον, πάντων ὑπερέχον, οἷον Ἀχιλλέα καὶ Νιρέα καὶ Ἱππόλυτον καὶ Ἀλκιβιάδην πλάσται καὶ γραφεῖς δεικνύουσι, πατρὸς Ἀρίστωνος, τὰ δεύτερα ἐν Συρακούσαις μετὰ Ἑρμοκράτην φερομένου. Καί τις ἦν ἐν αὐτοῖς πολιτικὸς φθόνος, ὥστε θᾶττον ἂν πᾶσιν ἢ ἀλλήλοις ἐκήδευσαν.","divisions":[{"label":"Book 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0554.tlg001.local001/#tlg0554-tlg001-local001-1"},{"label":"Book 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0554.tlg001.local001/#tlg0554-tlg001-local001-2"},{"label":"Book 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0554.tlg001.local001/#tlg0554-tlg001-local001-3"},{"label":"Book 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0554.tlg001.local001/#tlg0554-tlg001-local001-4"},{"label":"Book 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0554.tlg001.local001/#tlg0554-tlg001-local001-5"},{"label":"Book 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0554.tlg001.local001/#tlg0554-tlg001-local001-6"},{"label":"Book 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0554.tlg001.local001/#tlg0554-tlg001-local001-7"},{"label":"Book 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0554.tlg001.local001/#tlg0554-tlg001-local001-8"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0554.tlg001.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0554.tlg001.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0554/tlg001/local001.json.gz"}}