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Fiction --- Literary semiotics --- Epic literature --- -Semiotics and literature --- Simile --- Parabole --- Figures of speech --- Literature and semiotics --- Literature --- History and criticism --- Semiotics and literature. --- Simile. --- History and criticism. --- Semiotics and literature

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In the Greek world under the Roman Empire, the tradition of rhetorical learning reached its heyday in the second century A.D., with the cultural movement named as "Second Sophistic". Despite the emphasis on rhetoric, literary culture lato senso was was also part of it, granting a special place to poetics and literary criticism. In the wake of this hermeneutical and interdisciplinary approach, the papers assembled in this volume explore signi cant issues, which are linked to the narrative structure of the ancient novel and to the tradition of rhetorical training, both envisaged as a web of well-constructed narrative devices.