Apollonius of Tyre

The 'Historia Apollonii' is a rare Latin example of a genre of literature more fully attested in Greek, the so-called Greek romance' -popular stories which involve lovers or families separated byshipwreck and misfortune and eventually joyfully reunited. It was one of the most widely and conutinuously read texts to survive from late Antiquity through the middle ages and into the Renaissance almost unchanged.