Well-known for his early work on Lucian, Philostratus, and other classical writers in the second Sophist tradition since the publication in 2000 of Fairytale in the Ancient World, Graham Anderson has embarked upon an ever-expanding examination of the fantastic and marvelous in classical Greco-Roman literature, amassing a series of titles on fairytale, folklore, and the Arthurian legend in ancient texts of which Fantasy in Greek and Roman Literature is the most recent. While, like its predecessors, this title fills an important gap in historical studies of the fantastic, it also serves primarily as a summary, or a preview or place-holder, for future work by Anderson himself and/or the next generation of scholars interested in these materials. Anderson has developed and displays in this volume what could be construed as a “signature style” of providing a series of short essays offering a taxonomy of fantasy themes in classical literature that on the whole comprises much discussion and comparatively little analysis. What analysis is present focuses on efforts to explain what authors are doing with fantasy elements; how or why they are achieving their effects; and how audiences might receive these tales. The volume is comprehensive and learned in its presentation of the various themes associated with the fantastic and the range of texts referenced and discussed, but light on the development of a thesis tying the book together, beyond that fantasy is present in ancient texts, and where and in what forms it can be found there. That said, there are a number of individual claims made throughout individual chapters that bear consideration towards a larger and more cohesive study or set of studies. Anderson has opened a door through which future scholars of the fantastic in ancient literature can walk and wander, providing a guide to how and where to begin looking. This should be viewed not necessarily as a negative criticism, but rather as an evaluation of this book’s true value, which is as a generative opening to further and more developed studies and arguments regarding the presence and function of the fantastic in ancient texts.