Essays on the Greek Romances

"Essays on the Greek Romances" by Elizabeth Hazelton Haight is a book of essays published in the early 1900's. The essays are about Greek stories written between the first and fourth centuries. The book shows how important these stories are to literature and culture. The author studies important writers and stories from that time and shows how they affected European books that came later. The book starts by introducing Greek romances and explaining why they are still important to romance and literature. Haight writes about the time the stories were written and how the human emotions, love, and adventures were set in the Mediterranean. Haight thinks these stories are not well known, but that they set the stage for other stories and still feel relevant to people today. The book gives a look at what the essays will be about, like the study of Chariton's "Chaereas and Callirhoe."