Achilleus Tatios

Japanese: アキレウス･タティオス（英語表記）Achilleus Tatios

A Greek novelist active around the 2nd century. Dates of birth and death unknown. He was born in Alexandria and is said to have later converted to Christianity and become a bishop, but this is not clear. He is also said to have written biographies of great people and treatises on the etymology of words, but these works have not survived. The only work known to him is an eight-volume novel entitled The Story of Leucippe and Cleitophon. It tells the story of a young couple who are in love but are separated by a twist of fate, and who continue to wander from place to place, enduring various hardships, until they are finally united in love.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

2世紀ころ活躍したギリシアの小説家。生没年不詳。アレクサンドリアの出身で，のちにキリスト教に改宗し，主教にまでなったと伝えられるが，明確なことはわからない。また偉人の伝記や語源に関する論著などを書いたともいわれるが，それらの作品は残っていない。彼の作として伝わっているのは《レウキッペとクレイトフォンの物語》と題する全8巻の小説だけである。これは互いに恋し合う若い男女の主人公が運命のいたずらによって離れ離れとなり，さまざまの苦難にあいながら各地を放浪しつづけ，最後にめでたく結ばれるまでを描いたもの。

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