Recent revival of interest in the 'Greek novel'Bizarre, erotic, and risque contentNew translation, which aims to capture the exuberant varity of Achilles Tatius' writingIncludesan introduction which sets the text in its historical and literary contexts and detailed explanatory notes.Influence of Leucippe and Clitophon on the literature of the Renaissance and the EarlyModern novelAchilles Tatius' Leucippe and Clitophon (composed in the second century AD) is the most bizarre and risque of the four