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- ↑ T. Hägg and B. Utas, The Virgin and her Lover: Fragments of an Ancient Greek Novel and a Persian Epic Poem (Leiden: Brill, 2003).
- ↑ Doody, Margaret Anne (1997). The True Story of the Novel. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 9780813524535.
- ↑ Holzberg, Niklas (2003). "The genre: novels proper and the fringe". In Schmeling, Gareth L. (ed.). The Novel in the Ancient World (Revised ed.). Boston: Brill. pp. 11–28. doi:10.1163/9789004496439_004. ISBN 978-90-04-49643-9.
- ↑ Bowie, Ewen (7 March 2016). "Novel, Greek". In Whitmarsh, Tim (ed.). Oxford Classical Dictionary . Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.013.4463.
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