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Aethiopica or Theagenes and Chariclea is an ancient Greek romance or novel. It was written by Heliodorus of Emesa and is his only known work.

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Daphnis and Chloe is an ancient Greek novel written in the Roman Empire, the only known work of the second-century AD Greek novelist and romance writer Longus.

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Dialogues of the Gods are 25 miniature dialogues mocking the Homeric conception of the Greek gods written in Attic Greek by Syrian author Lucian of Samosata. The 25 Dialogues titles are:Prometheus and Zeus, Eros and Zeus, Zeus and Hermes, Ganymede and Zeus, Juno and Zeus(1), Juno and Zeus(2), Adranus and Apollo, Adranus and Zeus, Neptune and Hermes, Mercuy and (the) Sun, Venus and Selene, Venus and Zeus, Zeus, Asclepius and Heracles, Hermes and Apollo(1), Hermes and Apollo(2), Hera and Leto, Apollo and Hermes, Hera and Zeus, Aphrodite and Zeus, Ares and Hermes, Autolycus and Hermes, Apollo and Bacchus, Hermes and Maia, Zeus and Helios, Apollo and Hermes.A. The judgement of the goddesses: Zeus, Hermes, Juno, Minerva, Aphrodite and Paris

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The Ephesian Tale of Anthia and Habrocomes by Xenophon of Ephesus is an Ancient Greek novel written before the late 2nd century AD.

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The Adventures of Leucippe and Clitophon, written by Achilles Tatius, is one of the five surviving Ancient Greek romances, notable for its many similarities to Longus' Daphnis and Chloe, and its apparent mild parodic nature.

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Metiochus and Parthenope is an Ancient Greek novel that, in a translation by the eleventh-century poet ‘Unṣurī, also became the Persian romance epic Vāmiq u ‘Adhrā, and the basis for a wide range of stories about the 'lover and the virgin' in medieval and modern Islamicate cultures.

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A True Story is a novel written in the second century AD by Lucian of Samosata, a Greek-speaking author of Assyrian descent. The novel is a satire of outlandish tales that had been reported in ancient sources, particularly those that presented fantastic or mythical events as if they were true. It is Lucian's best-known work.