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• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Author’s Note
• 1. The Genre
• A Conventional Plot: Xenophon’s Ephesiaca
• The Surviving Texts
• Ancient Labels
• Characteristics of the Idealistic and Comic-Realistic Novels
• The Fringe: Other Novel-Like Literature of Antiquity
• A Definition of the Genre
• 2. The Rise of the Genre
• Theories On the Origins
• The Novel As a Product of Political, Social and Cultural Upheavals
• The novel As ‘Closet Drama’ and ‘Bourgeois Prose Epic’
• The Novel’s Ancient Readership
• Novel and Historiography
• A Genre Is Born
• 3. The Idealistic Novel In Early Imperial Times
• Chariton, Callirhoe
• Other Novels In Historical Dress: Parthenope, Chione, Calligone
• A String of Adventures: Xenophon of Ephesus, Ephesiaca
• Lollianus, Phoenicica
• An Attempt to Diversify: Antonius Diogenes, the Wonders Beyond Thule
• 4. The Comic-Realistic Novel
• A Greek Comic-Realistic Novel In Prose and Verse: Iolaus
• Topsy-Turvy World: Petronius, Satyrica
• Appearances and Reality: The Greek Ass Romance
• Satire, Platonism and mysteries: Apuleius, Metamorphoses
• 5. The Idealistic Novel In the Age of the Second Sophistic
• Wallowing In Lurid Effects: Iamblichus, Babyloniaca
• Adding the Human Touch: Achilles Tatius, Leucippe and Clitophon
• Sexual Psychology and Bucolic Paradise: Longus, Daphnis and Chloe
• Acme of Narrative Technique: Heliodorus, Aethiopica
• Select Bibliography
• Texts
• Secondary Works