In the Greco-Roman narrative tradition, the ancient Greek novels play a crucial role: as pioneers in romantic storytelling, as models for successive narratives in Greek (including much hagiography), and as inspiration for writers like Shakespeare and Madeleine de Scudéry. Later this spring, one of the most playful and adventurous novels – Leucippe and Clitophon by Achilles Tatius – will appear in a new Swedish translation by Ingela Nilsson.

Lovers of fiction have something to look forward to!