| Contents |
Prelude -- First movement: Hellenism and hybridity -- Dirty love -- A history of the novel -- What is a novel? -- Epic and novel -- Sourcing Callirhoe -- Second movement: Persians -- The romance of Zarinaea and Stryangaeus -- Who was Ctesias? -- Persian love stories -- Media studies -- Cyrus' sex life -- Third movement: Jews -- Return to Joseph -- The Jewish novel -- Joseph in love -- Fourth movement: Egyptians -- The long Hellenistic -- Alexander in kohl -- Whose paradigm? -- Fifth movement: how Greek is the Greek romance? -- How Greek is the Greek romance? -- Romancing Semiramis -- Dirty love in late antiquity -- Conclusion: the foundation of Marseilles, some brooch-pins, and the history of the novel. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-198) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2017049554 |
| ISBN | 9780199742653 (hardcover) |
