Note 377 — VIII A COMPARISON OF THE GREEK ROMANCES AND APULEIUS’ METAMORPHOSES

To complete the list of different types of novels, we might add the realistic novel of low life, Petronius’ Satyricon. Since its affiliations are with the Menippean satire and not with the Greek Romances, I have omitted any study of it here. See E. H. Haight, Apuleius and his Influence, pp. 7-8; “Satire and the Latin Novel” in Essays on Ancient Fiction, pp. 86-120. For a recent review of the literature about the Satyricon and a brilliant re-interpretation of it see Gilbert Highet “Petronius the Moralist” in T.P.A.P.A., LXXII (1941), 176-94.