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Preface

Narrative Spaces

Chariton's Syracuse and its histories of empire

Chronotope and locus amoenus in Daphnis and Chloe and Pleasntville

Literary Topography in Apuleius' Metamorphoses

Corinth, Rome, and Africa: a Cultural Background for the Tale of the Ass

On the Road in Apuleius' Metamorphoses

The Temple and the Brothel: Mothers and Daughters in Apollonius of Tyre

Social Geography in the Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles

Reading Space: A Re-examination of Apuleian ekphrasis

A Good Place to Talk: Discourse and Topos in Achilles Tatiusand Philostratus

Space and Displacement in Apuleius

The Laughter Festival as a Community Integration Rite in Apuleius' Metamorphoses

Indices