Folktale as a Source of Graeco-Roman Fiction: The Origin of Popular Narrative

The studies collected in this work examine the relationship between formal fiction and popular storytelling in Ancient Greek and Roman Literature. This work should appeal to scholars interested in folk literature, Greek and Roman literature, and the development of ancient literature. literary aspects of the texts available to us. Ancient novels had their roots traced to a number of literary genres, including Epic, Euripidean Romantic drama, and New Comedy. The studies collected in this work look instead at the relationship between formal fiction and popular storytelling. Connections between these two forms of literature were prevalent in various cultures in antiquity and also reemerged in the significant quantities of folk - and fairytales from the Renaissance onwards.