Introduction / Tim Whitmarsh -- Literary milieux / Ewen Bowie -- The history of sexuality / Helen Morales -- Cultural identity / Susan Stephens -- Class / Tim Whitmarsh -- Religion / Froma Zeitlin -- Travel / James Romm -- Body and text / Jason König -- Time / Lawrence Kim -- Politics and spectacles / Catherine Connors -- Genre / Simon Goldhill -- Approaching style and rhetoric / Andrew Laird -- Intertextuality / John Morgan and Stephen Harrison -- Narrative / Tim Whitmarsh and Shadi Bartsch -- Ancient readers / Richard Hunter -- Byzantine readers / Joan B. Burton -- The re-emergence of ancient novels in Western Europe, 1300-1810 / Michael Reeve -- Novels ancient and modern / Gerald Sandy and Stephen Harrison -- Modernity and post-modernity / Massimo Fusillo.