>I'm told (reference not to hand) that romantic and adventure novels were
>already common in the classical period.
Peter Metcalfe:
> It really depends what you mean by "common". Petronius's
Satyricon (a "romantic" novel) is first century AD while Lucian's
True History ("science fiction" adventure novel) is written in the
next century. Hence novels were in existence but were hardly
common.<
I'm not talking about those, but the Roman equivalent of Mills and Boon in a slightly later period.
Andrew
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