Heliodorus

Heliodorus, also known as Heliodorus Emesenus or Heliodorus of Emesa, was the most noted and earliest of the Greek romancists, born at Emesa, Syria. He flourished in the second half of the 3rd century AD. His romance "Æthiopica" is a love tale of great beauty and told with naïve simplicity. He had considerable influence over subsequent romance writers, e. g. Tasso.

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Heliogabalus, Heliography, Heliopolis, Helios, Heliostat, Heliotrope