True love and immediate recognition -- Callirhoe : something in the way she breathes -- The Ephesiaca : slow and quick eyes -- Beauty, dress, and identity -- Leucippe and Clitophon : teasing expectations -- Daphnis and Chloe : too beautiful to be shepherds -- Reading identity : recognitions in the Aethiopica -- First, misidentifications -- The recognition of Chariclea -- Reading recognitions -- A gift of providence? : recognitions in two Roman novels -- The Satyrica : recognition and capture -- The Golden ass : recognition and return -- From the pagan novels to early Jewish and Christian narratives : refashioning recognition -- Telling my whole life with his words : recognitions in Apollonius of Tyre -- "Who are you?" : Joseph and Aseneth, or it is impossible to recognize a convert -- Recognition of family and recognition of god in the pseudo-Clementine recognitions -- Dress and recognition a novelistic motif becomes Christian -- The Greek novel in the history of the recognition motif -- Tragedy and comedy -- Future influences : highlights