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The original German-language work was published in 2010, by Verlagsbuchhandlung and Carl Ernsy Poeschel Verlag GmbH Stuttgart, Germany and is here presented in translation for the English-speaking audience. Sixty-four articles on selected works of Graeco-Roman literature bring together a focus on their reception that goes beyond the more disparate approaches in many Companions to... volumes in order to link associated phenomena and open up avenues for research. Articles are arranged alphabetically by the names of the ancient authors (and occasionally by work titles), beginning with Achiles Tatius and ending with Xenophon. Editor Walde (classical philology, Johannes Gutenberg U. of Mainz, Germany) enlisted a team of contributors and, while giving them plenty of leeway as far as the contents of their contributions, imposed a unifying structure: brief notes and characterization of author and oeuvre, a reception profile, the most important transformations from creation to the present day; and bibliography. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).