"Bowersock's fascinating lectures add much to the new perception of
the early empire as a time of experiment and cultural
cross-fertilization."--Averil Cameron, author of "Christianity and
the Rhetoric of Empire
"An exhilarating exploration of the multicultural world of the
Roman empire. . . . Did the Latin and Greek 'novels' (from the
comic "Satyricon, contemporary with Nero and Paul, onwards through
the whole range of romantic narratives) with their exotic locations
and dramatic incident, draw on Christian belief in resurrection and
the Eucharist? . . . Bowersock dissects the body of the evidence
with a skeptical scalpel and magically restores it intact and
alive."--Susan Treggiari, author of "Roman Marriage: Iusti Coniuges
from the Time of Cicero to the Time of Ulpian
"Conceived in admirably broad and imaginative terms and treated
with erudition and boldness in equal parts. "Fiction as History,
controversial as some of its conclusions may seem, opens up a whole
new vein in scholarship in this field, and shows that the ancient
novel is worth the attention of not only literary scholars but
historians as well. A much-needed book."--B. P. Reardon, editor of
"Collected Ancient Greek Novels
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