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Iamblichos’ Babyloniaka (Babylonian Story)1 occupies a prominent position among the fragmentarily preserved novels. We have an extended summary by the patriarch Photios (cod. 94), along with some fragments of the original work; the total evidence occupies no less than 55 pages in Stephens and Winkler.2 The Babyloniaka is a love-story set at a vague time3 and is told in an elaborate rhetorical style, which is consistent with Second Sophistic habits.4 It is by all means a peculiar work. Photios’ summary gives us an idea of an extreme and convoluted plot, which was probably of greater length than the plot of the Aithiopika, our longest romance (the exact size of Iamblichos’ novel is unknown, but Photios’ summary

Iamblichos’ <i>Babyloniaka</i>, the Greek Novel and Satire