CHARITON, of Aphrodisias, in Caria, the author of a Greek romance entitled The Loves of Chaereas and Callirrhoe, probably flourished in the 4th century A.D. The action of the story, which is to a certain extent historical, takes place during the time of the Peloponnesian War.
Editions by J. P. D'Orville (1783), G. A. Hirschig (1856), and R. Hercher (1859) ; there is an (anonymous) English trans. (1764) ; see also E. Rohde, Der griechische Roman (1900) .