Jonas Grethlein is Professor of Greek at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg and a member of the Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften. His most recent books include Aesthetic Experiences and Classical Antiquity (Cambridge, 2017) and The Ancient Aesthetics of Deception (Cambridge, 2021).

• 1. Narratology and classics; 2. Word and world: fiction(ality); 3. Voice(s): author/ narrator/ character; 4. Minds; 5. Motivation; 6. Ancient texts and postmodern challenges.

'[An] original and significant monograph whose combination of theoretically sophisticated examinations of key concepts of narratology with innovative and persuasive close readings of texts from Homer to Heliodorus attest to its potential to cut across disciplinary boundaries and to attract not only classicists but also scholars in comparative literature, in medieval and modern languages, and in performance and media studies departments.' Nebojša Todorović, Bryn Mawr Classical Review