their handling of character, narrative and intertextuality. Two stories included by Reardon in his list of novels have survived only as summaries: Antonius Diogenes's The Wonders Beyond Thule and Iamblichus' Babylonian History. Both of these summaries are the work of Photios in his Bibliotheca. Influences The influence of the novelists is demonstrable on Musaeus' Hero and Leander, the late antique epic by Nonnus titled Dionysiaca, Procopius, the Byzantine novel, and Byzantine historiography in general. Thanks in large part to Jacques Amyot's translations, they were rediscovered in early modern Europe, and played an influential role in the formation of the modern novel, particularly the 'romance' variety. References Bibliography . B. P. Reardon Collected Ancient Greek Novels (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008) G. Schmeling ed. The Novel in the Ancient World, 2nd ed. (Leiden: Brill, 2003) T. Whitmarsh ed. The Cambridge Companion to the Greek and Roman Novel (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008) Ancient Greek literature