Cultural crossroads in the ancient novel / edited by Marília P. Futre Pinheiro, David Konstan and Bruce Duncan MacQueen.

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 antecedent...

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