Intro
Contents
Foreword
Introduction
I MODERN CRITICAL THEORY
Trials and their Narrative Functions in the Ancient Novel
Erotic Neoteny in Longus' Daphnis And Chloe
Philostratus' Life of Apollonius: Magic, Gorgianism, Asianism
II POETICS
The Mimetic Concept of Homoiotes in the Structure of Heliodorus' Novel
On the Idea of Homer in the Ancient Novel: A Study of Direct References to the Father of Classical Literature
Gold, Purple, and the Mystery of the Shell: Reflections in Achilles Tatius
III RHETORIC

Sentimental Education and Rhetoric in Daphnis and Chloe: Seasonal ekphrasis
Animals as a Means of Characterisation in Heliodorus' Aethiopica
The Riddle Game in Apollonius of Tyre
Progymnasmatic Features in Heliodorus' Characterizations
Performative Stage Directions in the Satyrica's Inquits
Prophetic Myths and Pictured Recollections: Rhetoric of Ecphrasis in Moschus' Europa and in Achilles Tatius' Leucippe and Clitophon
The Evidence of Composition with progymnasmata in Eustathios Makrembolites' Novel
Abstracts
Contributors
Indices