Download or read book Authors, Authority and Interpreters in the Ancient Novel written by Gareth L. Schmeling and published by Barkhuis. This book was released on 2006 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For most of us there are many masters and varied causes for intellectual peregrinations. For the editors of this volume, for many scholars of the ancient novel, and for an uncounted number of students of Classics and the Humanities, Gareth Lon Schmeling is a master and motivator of our scholarly and academic careers, especially of our forays into the ancient novel. And above all Gareth is a true friend. This volume of essays is a small, and, we hope, representative offering of our thanks to Gareth for his contributions to the study of the ancient novel in particular and Classics in general, for his guidance and support in our own endeavors, and for his own special humanity.