In The Ancient Fable: An Introduction, Niklas Holzberg provides the first and only one-volume introduction to the important genre of fables. He considers—not only in terms of literary history, but also in individual analyses—the genre's history in antiquity using the methods of modern literary approaches.

Author Biography: Niklas Holzberg is Professor of Classics at the University of Munich. He is a renowned authority on classical literature and has published extensively on ancient fiction, Roman elegy, and the Aesop tradition. Christine Jackson-Holzberg is translator of The Ancient Novel: An Introduction, also by Niklas Holzberg.