Table of Contents

1: Simon Swain: A Century and More of the Greek Novel 2: Ewen Bowie: The Greek Novel: The Genre 3: Massimo Fusillo: The Conflict of Emotions: a Topos in the Greek Erotic Novel 4: Suzanne Said: Rural Society in the Greek Novel, or The Country Seen from the Town 5: Brigitte Egger: The Role of Women in the Greek Novel: Woman as Heroine and Reader 6: Tomas Hagg: Callirhoe and Parthenope: The Beginnings of the Historical Novel 7: B. P. Reardon: Theme, Structure and Narrative in Chariton 8: Bernd Effe: Longos: Towards a History of Bucolic and its Function in the Roman Empire 9: Lia Raffaella Cresci: The Novel of Longos the Sophist and Pastoral Tradition 10: B.P.Reardon: Achilles Tatius and Ego-Narrative 11: J.R. Morgan: The Story of Knemon in Heliodoros' Aithiopka 12: John J. Winkler: The Mendacity of Kalasiris and the Narrative Strategy of Heliodoros' Aithiopika 13: Massimo Fusillo: The Mirror of the Moon. Lucian's A True Story - From Satire to Utopia

Reviews

`...a very readable survey of the literature on the novel, painting a sweeping canvas of the key issues in novel scholarship.' Steve Nimis