The woman of Andros

The first part of this novel is based upon the _Andria_, a comedy of Terence who in turn based his work upon two Greek plays, now lost to us, by Menander.

It was with such eyes that Pamphilus now saw his father pass into the house and that he had seen his mother moving about, covering the fire and going about the last tasks of the...

“Yes,” said Glycerium. Her bright wet eyes strayed over the streaked sea and the blown birds. “She doesn’t want anyone to know that I’m there. All day I stay up on the top of th...

Before long the pain in her side became fixed and unremitting, and Chrysis knew that her life was drawing to a close. She took to her bed and her thoughts no longer clung to the...

Simo was not vexed. He sighed. Looking up he saw the priest of Æsculapius and Apollo running around the course. He recalled the day several months before when he and Sostrata ha...

Simo descended the steps of the landing with Mysis and was rowed out to the boat. While he concluded his transaction with the black and smiling Leno Mysis sank upon her knees be...