ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book is intended more as a beginning than an end. It remains to look forward from the questions that need no longer be asked about Graeco-Roman fiction to those that people are at last able to put for the first time. The much greater length of Greek novels also offered a new challenge in matters of arrangement. It is worthwhile to remember that Heliodorus ends one Greek novel in almost the same terms as this psalmist's view of sacred marriage: And so the young couple, crowned with white mitres and invested with their priesthood, performed their propitious sacrifice in person. Then by torchlight to the sound of flutes and pipes, Theagenes rode with Hydaspes on one chariot drawn by horses, while Sisimithres rode with Chancles in another and Charicleia with Persinna in a third drawn by white oxen.
