Preface Notes on Contributors 1 Introduction: Narrating Ahead Saskia Schomber and Aldo Tagliabue 2 Additive Anachronies in Homer Alexander C. Loney 3 Dreams and Oracles as Riddling Prolepses in Herodotus' Histories Irene J.F. de Jong 4 Proleptic Moves in Xenophon's Narrative of Mantinea ( Hell . 7.5): The Fog of War Luuk Huitink 5 Backwards and Forwards in Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus Evert van Emde Boas 6 Analepsis, Prolepsis, and Eschatology in 2Maccabees : That Was Now, This Is Then R.Gillian Glass 7 Prolepsis and Readerly (Un)certainty in Herodian's History of the Empire after Marcus : The Paradox of Anticipation Mario Baumann 8 Unfulfilled Prolepses in the Ancient Greek Novels: Virtual Worlds, Time Warps, and Closure Benedek Kruchió 9 The Inset Stories of Longus' Daphnis and Chloe as Possible and Counterfactual Prolepses Aldo Tagliabue 10 The Spatial Dimension of Prolepsis: Mise-en-abîme and the Dynamics of Plot in Heliodorus' Aethiopica Jonas Grethlein 11 Reading Phyllis as a Prolepsis in Colluthus' Abduction of Helen : Ghost Stories and Virtual Narratives Saskia Schomber Index.