Their appeal, however, should be just as great for the general reader as for the scholar. For here are stories that mirror the life of the Mediterranean world in the Roman Empire with all its new excitements of travel, piracy, kidnapping, the new feminism, the new religious cults. And through all the different types of romance except the satiric the Love-God holds supreme sway over the hearts of men. So human, so vivacious are the love-stories that I offer to my readers Longus’ assurance of profit in his introduction to his Pastoral Romance: “I drew up these four books, an oblation to Love and to Pan and to the Nymphs, and a delightful possession even for all men. For this will cure him that is sick, and rouse him that is in dumps; one that has loved, it will remember of it; one that has not, it will instruct. For there was never any yet that wholly could escape love, and never shall there be any, never so long as beauty shall be, never so long as eyes can see. But help me that God to write the passions of others; and while I write, keep me in my own right wits.”[1] My hope in writing on the Greek Romances is that I may lure readers back to them. My essays aim to be guideposts pointing the way. I venture to suggest that along with my book readers should peruse at least four novels of different types for which good translations are available. These are _Chariton’s Chaereas and Callirhoe_ by Warren E. Blake (beautiful in English and format) and three volumes of _The Loeb Classical Library_: _Daphnis and Chloe by Longus_, Lucian’s _True History_ (in Lucian vol. I) and the Latin novel which combines the different Greek types into one great synthesis, Apuleius’ _Metamorphoses_. If I can win new readers for these my favorites, my writing will be as successful as it has been happy! It is a pleasure once again to express grateful thanks to publishers and authors who have allowed me to quote material. I am indebted to the Harvard University Press for its courtesy in allowing me to quote freely from volumes in _The Loeb Classical Library_; to the Clarendon Press, Oxford for the use of material from R. M. Rattenbury, “Romance: the Greek Novel,” in _New Chapters in the History of Greek Literature_, _Third Series_, from F. A. Todd, _Some Ancient Novels_, from J. S. Phillimore, “Greek Romances” in _English Literature and the Classics_, and from _The Works of Lucian of Samosata_ translated by H. W. Fowler and F. G. Fowler; to Longmans, Green and Co., for the use of a quotation from F. G. Allinson, _Lucian Satirist and Artist_; to the University of Michigan Press for the use of Warren E. Blake’s translation of Chariton; to the Columbia University Press for permission to quote from S. L. Wolff’s _The Greek Romances in Elizabethan Prose Fiction_; and for generous permissions for quotations from Professor M. Rostovtzeff and Professor B. E. Perry.