The first accessible, concise yet but comprehensive introduction to the Greek literature of the Roman Empire, focusing on the first three centuries AD. This book offers for the first time an accessible but comprehensive account of the multi-faceted Greek literature of the Roman Empire, focusing especially on the first three centuries AD. It covers in turn the Greek novels of this period, the satirical writing of Lucian, rhetoric, philosophy, scientific and miscellanistic writing, geography and history, biography and poetry. It aims to provide a vivid introduction to key texts, with extensive quotation in translation. It also looks beyond the most commonly studied authors to reveal the full richness of this period's literature. The challenges and pleasures these texts offer to their readers have come to be newly appreciated in the classical scholarship of the last two or three decades. In addition there has been renewed interest in the role played by novelistic and rhetorical writing in the Greek culture of the Roman Empire more broadly, and in the many different ways in which these texts respond to the world around them. This volume offers a broad introduction to those exciting developments.