A Companion to the Ancient Novel

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<p>This companion addresses a topic of continuing contemporary relevance, both cultural and literary.</p><ul><li>Offers both a wide-ranging exploration of the classical novel of antiquity and a wealth of close literary analysis</li><li>Brings together the most up-to-date international scholarship on the ancient novel, including fresh new academic voices</li><li>Includes focused chapters on individual classical authors, such as Petronius, Xenophon and Apuleius, as well as a wide-ranging thematic analysis</li><li>Addresses perplexing questions concerning authorial expression and readership of the ancient novel form</li><li>Provides an accomplished introduction to a genre with a rising profile</li></ul>

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

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