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This collection of essays offers a comprehensive examination of texts that traditionally have been excluded from the main corpus of the ancient Greek novel and confined to the margins of the genre, such as the Life of Aesop, the Life of Alexander the Great, and the Acts of the Christian Martyrs. Through comparison and contrast, intertextual analysis and close examination, the boundaries of the dichotomy between the fringe vs. the canonical or erotic novel are explored, and so the generic identity of the texts in each group is more clearly outlined. The collective outcome brings the fringe from the periphery of scholarly research to the centre of critical attention, and provides methodological tools for the exploration of other fringe texts.

Examining Diodorus Siculus' historiographical methods and his representation of mythical culture-heroes, this study demonstrates the significant contribution of the author's first pentad to his universal history and its importance as a supplement to our perception of Hellenistic civilization.

In Figures de l'épouvante grecques de l'antiquité au présent, Maria Patera examines some unfamiliar figures of the Greek myths, the bogeys Lamia, Mormo, Gello and Empousa, through a diachronic comparison with their Byzantine and modern Greek namesakes.Dans Figures de l'épouvante grecques de l'antiquité au présent, Maria Patera traite de personnages mal connus de la mythologie grecque, les épouvantails des récits enfantins, Lamia, Mormô, Gellô et Empousa, dans une comparaison diachronique avec leurs homonymes byzantins et néo-grecs.

Voice and Voices in Antiquity surveys the changing concept of voice and voices in oral traditions and subsequent literary genres of antiquity, both fictional (authorial and characterized) and historical, and from Greece and the Near East to the western Roman Empire.