This is an important book that will hopefully open up the debate between mainstream narratologists and narratologists whoare experts in earlier historical periods (or in non-Western cultures, for that matter, or in both) in order to help us see more clearly when and why narrative practices emerged,which functions they fulfilled and how these practices may have shaped our modern notionsof narrative, in both practical and theoretical terms
Genevieve Liveley is Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Bristol. Her research interests focus on ancient (especially Augustan) narratives and on narrative theories, both ancient and modern. She is the author of Ovid's Metamorphoses: A Reader's Guide (Bloomsbury, 2011) and Ovid: Love Songs (Bloomsbury, 2005), and is co-editor with Patricia Salzman-Mitchell of Latin Elegy and Narratology: Fragments of Story
(Ohio State University Press, 2008).