For my Ancient History major, I wrote my publication project on The Dominance of Heterosexual Passion in Post-Classical Literature. I had discovered from a Lecturer that there was a shift in Greek attitude from Classical literature focusing on homosexual relations, to Post-Classical literature idealising heterosexual couples. He had also mentioned the Ancients had been writing novels that would be considered to our standards as Mills and Boons. I came across these five (completed) surviving Ancient Greek Novels. Chariton of Aphrodisias’s Chaireas and Callirhoe was dated to be the earliest surviving completed Greek novel from the first century B. C. E. … Continue reading The Hellenistic Romances – Five Surviving Ancient Greek Novels