Harrison (and Swain) are learned and judicious editors, and both volumes will no doubt find the wide markets they deserve...it is hard not to be impressed by the weight and density of scholarship to be found herein.

• 1. A Century and More of the Greek Novel ; 2. The Greek Novel: The Genre ; 3. The Conflict of Emotions: a Topos in the Greek Erotic Novel ; 4. Rural Society in the Greek Novel, or The Country Seen from the Town ; 5. The Role of Women in the Greek Novel: Woman as Heroine and Reader ; 6. Callirhoe and Parthenope: The Beginnings of the Historical Novel ; 7. Theme, Structure and Narrative in Chariton ; 8. Longos: Towards a History of Bucolic and its Function in the Roman Empire ; 9. The Novel of Longos the Sophist and Pastoral Tradition ; 10. Achilles Tatius and Ego-Narrative ; 11. The Story of Knemon in Heliodoros' Aithiopka ; 12. The Mendacity of Kalasiris and the Narrative Strategy of Heliodoros' Aithiopika ; 13. The Mirror of the Moon. Lucian's A True Story - From Satire to Utopia

Harrison (and Swain) are learned and judicious editors, and both volumes will no doubt find the wide markets they deserve...it is hard not to be impressed by the weight and density of scholarship to be found herein.

• 1. A Century and More of the Greek Novel ; 2. The Greek Novel: The Genre ; 3. The Conflict of Emotions: a Topos in the Greek Erotic Novel ; 4. Rural Society in the Greek Novel, or The Country Seen from the Town ; 5. The Role of Women in the Greek Novel: Woman as Heroine and Reader ; 6. Callirhoe and Parthenope: The Beginnings of the Historical Novel ; 7. Theme, Structure and Narrative in Chariton ; 8. Longos: Towards a History of Bucolic and its Function in the Roman Empire ; 9. The Novel of Longos the Sophist and Pastoral Tradition ; 10. Achilles Tatius and Ego-Narrative ; 11. The Story of Knemon in Heliodoros' Aithiopka ; 12. The Mendacity of Kalasiris and the Narrative Strategy of Heliodoros' Aithiopika ; 13. The Mirror of the Moon. Lucian's A True Story - From Satire to Utopia