The protagonists of the ancient novels wandered or were carried off
to distant lands, from Italy in the west to Persia in the east and
Ethiopia in the south; the authors themselves came, or pretended to
come, from remote places such as Aphrodisia and Phoenicia; and the
novelistic form had antecedents in a host of classical genres.
These intersections are explored in this volume. Papers in the
first section discuss "mapping the world in the novels." The second
part looks at the dialogical imagination, and the conversation
between fiction and history in the novels. Section 3 looks at the
way ancient fiction has been transmitted and received. Space, as
the locus of cultural interaction and exchange, is the topic of the
fourth part. The fifth and final section is devoted to character
and emotion, and how these are perceived or constructed in ancient
fiction. Overall, a rich picture is offered of the many spatial and
cultural dimensions in a variety of ancient fictional genres.
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