Oxford readings in the Roman novel

"This anthology presents a new selection from the most significant articles on the Roman novels of Apuleius and Petronius that have been published, in German and Italian as well as English, over the last thirty years. The introduction by Stephen Harrison provides a general assessment of the scholarly work written about these texts from the 1900s, and sets the papers usefully into context. All major Latin and Greek quotations are translated into English, except those from the novels themselves."--Jacket.

"Those articles in the collection which concern Petronius' Satyrica include a general interpretation of this fragmentary and problematic text, an exploration of its narrative technique, its relationship to Menippean satire and to recently discovered Greek novel papyri, and the issue of its realism."--BOOK JACKET. "On Apuleius' Metamorphoses, the collection includes pieces on narrative and ideological unity, an exploration of its narrative technique, its relationship to religion and Platonism, to epic and to the Greek ass stories, and to historical realism."--Jacket.