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Greek: Prose Fiction
The ancient romances: Chariton’s Callirhoe (the earliest surviving novel), Achilles Tatius, Xenophon of Ephesus, and Parthenius’ collection of love stories. Every text below is a complete parsing reader: click any word for its lemma, morphology, and full entry from the Liddell-Scott-Jones lexicon.
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- Leucippe and ClitophonAchilles Tatius
- De Natura AnimaliumAelian
- Epistulae RusticaeAelian
- Varia HistoriaAelian
- Life of Aesop (Vita W)Aesopica
- Life of Aesop (Vita G)Aesopica
- LettersAlciphron
- Antheia (Novel Fragment)Anonymous
- Apollonius (Novel Fragment A)Anonymous
- Apollonius (Novel Fragment B)Anonymous
- Calligone (Novel Fragment)Anonymous
- Chione (Novel Fragment)Anonymous
- Chione or Ninus? (Novel Fragments)Anonymous
- Daulis (Novel Fragment)Anonymous
- Divine Vision (Novel Fragment)Anonymous
- Eleusinian Mysteries (Novel Fragment)Anonymous
- Herpyllis (Novel Fragment, P.Dublin inv. C3)Anonymous
- Iolaus (Novel Fragment)Anonymous
- Magician's Boast (Novel Fragment)Anonymous
- Metiochus and Parthenope (O.Bodl. 2175)Anonymous
- Metiochus and Parthenope (P.Berol. 7927)Anonymous
- Metiochus and Parthenope (P.Oxy. 435)Anonymous
- Myth of the Sun's EyeAnonymous
- Nile and Canopus (Novel Fragment)Anonymous
- Ninus Romance (Fragment C)Anonymous
- Ninus Romance (Fragments A–B)Anonymous
- Nocturnal Escape (Novel Fragment)Anonymous
- Sacred Rites (Novel Fragment)Anonymous
- Sesonchosis (P.Oxy. 1826)Anonymous
- Sesonchosis (P.Oxy. 2466)Anonymous
- Sesonchosis (P.Oxy. 3319)Anonymous
- Severis (Novel Fragment)Anonymous
- StaphylusAnonymous
- Theano (Novel Fragment)Anonymous
- TinouphisAnonymous
- The Wonders beyond Thule (PSI 1177, col. 1)Antonius Diogenes
- The Wonders beyond Thule (PSI 1177, col. 2)Antonius Diogenes
- Erotic LettersAristaenetus
- De Chaerea et CallirhoeChariton of Aphrodisias
- LettersPseudo-Chion of Heraclea
- Ephemeris of the Trojan War (Fragments)Dictys Cretensis
- TestimoniaDictys Cretensis
- AethiopicaHeliodorus of Emesa
- Babyloniaca (Fragments)Iamblichus (novelist)
- Phoinikika (Fragments)Lollianus
- Phoinikika: Glauketes Fragment (P.Oxy. 1368)Lollianus (attributed)
- Daphnis and ChloeLongus
- Lucius or the AssPseudo-Lucian of Samosata
- Life of Aesop (Vita Pl or Accursiana)Maximus Planudes (attributed)
- Book of SyntipasMichael Andreopoulos
- Narrationes AmatoriaeParthenius of Nicaea
- LettersPseudo-Periander
- LettersPseudo-Phalaris