ABSTRACT
The Afterword summarizes the principal conclusions and offers two additional points of speculation. The first concerns the possible significance of the inclusion of Italy and Magna Graecia in the novels of Xenophon and Chariton, which may be an additional indication of the relevance of the Roman practice of slavery to these novels and a gesture of recollection to the slave rebellions on Sicily and in Campania. The second point of speculation advances the idea that the novel’s negative critical reception in antiquity was partly motivated by the genre’s association with the narration of slavery.
