Description:
This study defines the genre of the comic romance, the literature of relaxation in the ancient world, and sets it in the context of other forms of fiction of the period. Critical studies of "The Satyricon" of Petronius and the "Metamorphoses" (or "The Golden Ass") of Apuleius are included.
Brief description: P.G Walsh was Professor of Latin at the University of Glasgow, UK, and elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. He translated The Satyricon and The Golden Ass, and authored Livy: His Historical Aims and Methods (also published by Bloomsbury).
Review Quotes: ." . .we can be greatful to Walsh for providing a study to which all interested in the Roman novel will turn for instruction ans stimulation for a long time to come. They may be greatful, too, for the pleasure which comes from reading a bookwritten with great clarity and elegance." -- American Journal of Philology