About the book: 1959 / Novel of the 2nd century AD. e. tells about the young Chaerea and the divine Callirhoe who lived 600 years earlier in Magna Graecia, in Syracuse, the most beautiful of all, of whom their homeland was proud. Eros himself united them with indissoluble bonds of love and legal marriage, but some envious deity sent many trials. Separation, wanderings, robberies, enslavements, litigation, war and death itself - the love of Chaerea and Callirhoe withstood everything..