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Encyclopedia Britannica



ACHILLES TATIUS

This article appears in Volume V01, Page 144 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: A10-ADA
ACHILLES TATIUS , of Alexandria, Greek rhetorician, author of the erotic romance, the Adventures of Leucippe and Cleitophon, flourished about A.D. 450, perhaps later. Suidas, who alone calls him Statius, says that he became a Christian and eventually a bishoplike Heliodorus, whom he imitatedbut there is no evidence of this. Photius, while severely criticizing his lapses into indecency, highly praises the conciseness and clearness of his style, which, however, is artificial and laboured. Many of the incidents of the romance are highly improbable, and the characters, except the heroine, fail to enlist sympathy. The descriptive passages and digressions, although tedious and introduced without adequate reasons, are the best part of the
work
 . The large number of existing MSS. attests its popularity. (Ediiio princeps, 16os; first important
critical
  edition by Jacobs, 1821; later editions by Hirschig, 1856; Hercher, 1858. There are translations in many languages; in English by Anthony H[odges], 1638, and R.
Smith
 , 1855. See also ROMANCE.)
Suidas also ascribes to this author an Etymology, a Miscellaneous History of Famous Men, and a treatise On the Sphere. Part of the last is extant under the title of An Introduction to the Phaenomena of Aratus. But if the writer is the prudentissimus Achilles referred to by Firmicus Maternus (about 336) in his Matkeseos libri, iv. so, 17 (ed. Kroll), he must have lived long before the author of Leucippe. The fragment was first published in 1567, then in the Uranologion of Petavius, with a Latin translation, 163o. Nothing definite is known as to the author-ship of the other works, which are lost.


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