Introduction -- Theorizing Love and Desire in the Ancient Novel -- Considering Desire in the Greek Romances Employing Lacanian Theory: Some Explorations -- Gender and Ways of Organizing Space -- Space and Gender in the Ancient Greek Novel -- Gendered Places in Two Later Ancient Novels (Aithiopika, Historia Apollonii) -- The Gardens of 'Kallimachos and Chrysorrhoë' -- Male Identity and Gendered Ambiguities in the Greek Novel -- Performing Paideia: Public and Private Masculinity in Chariton -- Gendered Ambiguities, Hybrid Formations, and the Imaginary of the Body in Achilles Tatius -- How to Be a Man: Towards a Sexual Definition of the Self in Achilles Tatius' Novel Leucippe and Clitophon -- 'Taking It Like a Man': Gender, Identity and the Body in Achilles Tatius' Leucippe and Clitophon -- Female Sexuality and Eroticism in the Greek Novel -- The Κρίσις Inside: Heliodoros' Variations on the Bedtrick -- Female Sexuality in Longus and Alciphron -- Sexual Identity and Gender Transformations in Petronius and Apuleius -- Fortunata and the Virtues of Freedwomen -- Anxiety and Influence: Ovid's Amores 3.7 and Encolpius' Impotence in Satyricon 126 ff. -- Petronius' Giton: Gender and Genre in the Satyrica -- Gender Transformations in Apuleius' Metamorphoses -- Composite Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index Locorum -- Subject Index.