Re: Sagas and Literature

From: AndrewBarton <AndrewBarton_at_...>
Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 21:07:16 -0400


Andrew Barton wrote:

>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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