Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. ONE. Description and Interpretation in the Second Sophistic 3
5. TWO. Pictorial Description: Clues, Conventions, Girls, and Gardens 40
6. THREE. Dreams, Oracles, and Oracular Dreams: Misinterpretation and Motivation 80
7. FOUR. Descriptions of Spectacles: The Reader as Audience, the Author as Playwright 109
8. FIVE. The Other Descriptions: Relation to Narrative and Reader 144
9. SIX. The Role of Description 171
10. APPENDIX. Summaries of Leucippe and Clitophon and the Aethiopica 179
11. Bibliography 185
12. Index Locorum 191
13. General Index 196