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Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction: Beyond the Second Sophistic and into the Postclassical PART ONE. FICTION BEYOND THE CANON 1. The Invention of 2. The Romance of Genre 3. Belief in Fiction: Euhemerus of Messene and the Sacred Inscription 4. An I for an I: Reading Fictional Autobiography 5. Metamorphoses of the Ass 6. Addressing Power: Fictional Letters between Alexander and Darius 7. Philostratus's Heroicus: Fictions of Hellenism 8. Mimesis and the Gendered Icon in Greek Theory and Fiction PART TWO. POETRY AND PROSE 9. Greek Poets and Roman Patrons in the Late Republic and Early Empire 10. The Cretan Lyre Paradox: Mesomedes, Hadrian, and the Poetics of Patronage 11. Lucianic Paratragedy 12. Quickening the Classics: The Politics of Prose in Roman Greece PART THREE. BEYOND THE GREEK SOPHISTIC 13. Politics and Identity in Ezekiel's Exagoge 14. Adventures of the Solymoi References Index

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