Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Preliminary Material / Grammatiki A. Karla -- Chapter One. Challenging Some Orthodoxies: The Politics Of Genre And The Ancient Greek Novel / Helen Morales -- Chapter Two. Fictional Biography Vis-À-Vis Romance: Affinity And Differentiation / A. Karla Grammatiki -- Chapter Three. Novelistic Lives And Historical Biographies: The Life Of Aesop And The Alexander Romance As Fringe Novels / Corinne Jouanno -- Chapter Four. Romance Without Eros / John-Theophanes A. Papademetriou -- Chapter Five. The Ideal Greek Novel From A Biographical Perspective / Tomas Hägg -- Chapter Six. The Historical Novel In The Greek World: Xenophon’S Cyropaedia / Bernhard Zimmermann -- Chapter Seven. Reunion And Regeneration: Narrative Patterns In Ancient Greek Novels And Christian Acts / David Konstan -- Chapter Eight. Novelistic And Anti-Novelistic Narrative In The Acts Of Thomas And The Acts Of Andrew And Matthias / Jason König -- Chapter Nine. Pausanias The Novelist / William Hutton -- Chapter Ten. Fictional Anxieties / Richard Hunter -- General Index / Grammatiki A. Karla -- Index Locorum / Grammatiki A. Karla.

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This collection of essays offers a comprehensive examination of texts that traditionally have been excluded from the main corpus of the ancient Greek novel and confined to the margins of the genre, such as the Life of Aesop, the Life of Alexander the Great, and the Acts of the Christian Martyrs. Through comparison and contrast, intertextual analysis and close examination, the boundaries of the dichotomy between the “fringe” vs. the “canonical” or “erotic” novel are explored, and so the generic identity of the texts in each group is more clearly outlined. The collective outcome brings the “fringe” from the periphery of scholarly research to the centre of critical attention, and provides methodological tools for the exploration of other “fringe” texts.