MacQueen, Bruce Duncan2013-02-132013-02-132009Symbolae Philologorum Posnaniensium, 2009, nr XIX, pp. 95-120978-83-232-2153-10302-7384http://hdl.handle.net/10593/4545The present study attempts to demonstrate that the ancient Greek novel Daphnis and Chloe systematically explores the problem expressed by Horace in the phrase docere et delectare, and that this purpose is announced in the Prologue. The functions of prologues as such are briefly reviewed. After a consideration of the prologues of the remaining ancient Greek novels, the Prologue of Longus’s Daphnis and Chloe is analyzed line by line. Longus uses the Prologue, then, to establish a series of dialectical tensions that operate throughout the novel, allowing it to delight and instruct at the same time.enancient Greek novelErosParadoxPaideiahuntingArtykuł