Collected Ancient Greek Novels

Prose fiction, although not always associated with classical antiquity, flourished in the early Roman Empire, not only in realistic Latin novels but also and indeed principally in the Greek ideal romance of love and adventure. Enormously popular in the Renaissance, these stories have been less familiar in later centuries. Translations of the Greek stories were not readily available in English before B.P. Reardon's first appeared in 1989.Nine complete stories are included here as well as ten others, encompassing the whole range of classical themes: romance, travel, adventure, historical fiction, and comic parody. A foreword by J.R. Morgan examines the enormous impact this groundbreaking collection has had on our understanding of classical thought and our concept of the novel.


Author: B. P. Reardon
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 05/07/2019
Series: World Literature in Translation
Pages: 984
Weight: 1.8lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.00w x 2.70d
ISBN: 9780520305595
2nd Second Edition, Edition