Edited by Susan A. Stephens & John J. Winkler

Preface
List of Papyri
Abbreviations
General Introduction 3
Ninos 23
Metiochos and Parthenope 72
Metiochos and Parthenope? 95
The Incredible Things beyond Thule 101
Antonius Diogenes? 158
The Love Drug 173
Babyloniaka 179
Sesonchosis 246
Kalligone 267
Antheia and a Cast of Thousands 277
Chione 289
Chione? 303
Phoinikika 314
Iolaos 358
Daulis 375
Apollonios 391
Tinouphis 400
The Apparition 409
Goatherd and the Palace Guards 416
Nightmare or Necromancy? 422
Staphulos 429
Theano 438
The Festival 444
Inundation 451
Initiation 461
App. A. Also Known as Romance 469
App. B. Testimonia 473
App. C. Chart of Provenances and Dates 479
Bibliography 483
Index of Passages Cited 505
Index of Proper Names from the Fragments and Testimonia 520
General Index 525

The recent discovery of fragments from such novels as Iolaos, Phoinikika, Sesonchosis, and Metiochos and Parthenope has dramatically increased the library catalogue of ancient novels, calling for a fresh survey of the field. In this volume Susan Stephens and John Winkler have reedited all of the identifiable novel fragments, including the epitomes of Iamblichos' Babyloniaka and Antonius Diogenes' Incredible Things Beyond Thule. Intended for scholars as well as nonspecialists, this work provides new editions of the texts, full translations whenever possible, and introductions that situate each text within the field of ancient fiction and that present relevant background material, literary parallels, and possible lines of interpretation.
Collective reading of the fragments exposes the inadequacy of many currently held assumptions about the ancient novel, among these, for example, the paradigm for a linear, increasingly complex narrative development, the notion of the "ideal romantic" novel as the generic norm, and the nature of the novel's readership and cultural milieu. Once perceived as a late and insignificant development, the novel emerges as a central and revealing cultural phenomenon of the Greco-Roman world after Alexander.
Originally published in 1995.
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