Shannon N. Byrne is Professor of Classics at Xavier University.Edmund P. Cueva is Professor of Classics and Humanities at the University of Houston-Downtown. Together, they have coedited several books, including of Authors, Authority and Interpreters in the Ancient Novel: Essays in Honor of Gareth L. Schmeling (with J. Alvares, 2006), Longus: Text, Commentary and Vocabulary (2005), and Humor and Classical Literature (2002).

“It offers a nice mixture of new discussions, including some that will be useful for students and the uninitiated, some that will provoke further research, and a number that will stand as important contributions to the field in their own right.”  (Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 19 June 2015)“Ending with a chapter looking at the influence of the ancient novel on modern film, the Companionforms a full circle in its assessment of forms of entertainment, while also demonstrating, in spite of its apparent rarity, that the ancient novel continues to exert a strong influence on modern storytellers, their means of, and inspirations for, storytelling.”  (Reference Reviews, 1 December 2014

• Notes on Contributors viii Introduction 1Edmund P. Cueva and Shannon N. ByrnePart I Novels and Authors 11a. Greek 121 Chariton: Individuality and Stereotype 13Graham Anderson2 Daphnis and Chloe: Innocence and Experience, Archetypes and Art 26Jean Alvares3 Xenophon, The Ephesian Tales 43James N. O’Sullivan4 Achilles Tatius, Sophistic Master of Novelistic Conventions 62Kathryn S. Chew5 Heliodorus, the Ethiopian Story 76Marília P. Futre Pinheirob. Roman 956 Petronius, Satyrica 96Heinz Hofmann7 Apuleius’ The Golden Ass: The Nature of the Beast 119Paula James8 Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri 133Giovanni Garbuginoc. Related 1469 The Other Greek Novels 147Susan Stephens10 Hell-bent, Heaven-sent: From Skyman to Pumpkin 159Barry Baldwin11 The Novel and Christian Narrative 180David Konstan and Ilaria RamelliPart II Genre and Approaches 19912 The Genre of the Novel: A Theoretical Approach 201Marília P. Futre Pinheiro13 The Management of Dialogue in Ancient Fiction 217Graham Anderson14 Characterization in the Ancient Novel 231Koen De Temmerman15 Liaisons Dangereuses: Epistolary Novels in Antiquity 244Timo Glaser16 The Life of Aesop (rec.G): The Composition of the Text 257Consuelo Ruiz-MonteroPart III Influences and Intertextuality 27317 Reception of Strangers in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses: The Examples of Hypata and Cenchreae 275Stavros Frangoulidis18 From the Epic to the Novelistic Hero: Some Patterns of a Metamorphosis 288Luca Graverini19 Roman Elegy and the Roman Novel 300Judith P. Hallett and Judith Hindermann20 Apuleius’ Metamorphoses: A Hybrid Text? 317Paula James21 The Magnetic Stone of Love: Greek Novel and Poetry 330Françoise Létoublon22 “Respect these Breasts and Pity Me”: Greek Novel and Theater 352Françoise Létoublon and Marco Genre23 Poems in Petronius’ Satyrica 371Aldo Setaioli24 Various Asses 384Niall W. Slater25 Greek Novel and Greek Archaic Literature 400Giuseppe Zanetto26 Ekphrasis in the Ancient Novel 411Angela HolzmeisterPart IV Themes and Topics 42527 Miscellanea Petroniana: A Petronian Enthusiast’s Thoughts and Reviews 427Barry Baldwin28 Love, Myth, and Ritual: The Mythic Dimension and Adolescence in Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe 441Anton Bierl29 Gender in the Ancient Novel 456Ellen D. Finkelpearl30 Education as Construction of Gender Roles in the Greek Novels 473Sophie Lalanne31 Greek Love in the Greek Novel 490John F. Makowski32 Latin Culture in the Second Century ad 502Claudio Moreschini33 Mimet(h)ic Paideia in Lucian’s True History 522Peter von Möllendorff34 Reimagining Community in Christian Fictions 535Judith Perkins35 The Poetics of Old Wives’ Tales, or Apuleius and the Philosophical Novel 552Stefan Tilg36 Achilles Tatius and Heliodorus: Between Aristotle and Hitchcock 570Martin M. Winkler37 Longus’ Daphnis and Chloe: Literary Transmission and Reception 584Maria Pia PattoniIndex 598