INTRODUCTION

In the Ephesiaca ofXenophon of Ephesus (third century A.D.), a story not printed till I 726 and translated into English in 1727,2 the wife Anthia is separated from her husband and rescued from robbers by Perilaus, to avoid marrying whom she obtains from a physician a draught which she thinks deadly but is only a sleeping potion. She awakes in the tomb and is carried off by tomb-robbers to other adventures.