- ISBN: 9781444336023 | 1444336029
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 3/3/2014
Cleverly bisecting the over-extension and highly focused specialism of other texts on the ancient novel, this edited collection features the most up-to-date international scholarship and offers an invaluable survey of the classical world's prototypical achievements in narrative fiction. It includes chapters on individual classical authors such as Petronius, Xenophon and Apuleius, as well as thematic analysis deploying offering varied theoretical perspectives. This comprehensive and accessible work promises to be an important resource for students and scholars of the ancient novel.