Erotic Narrative Anonymous is a modern scholarly designation for a collection of 25 short fictional prose narratives. No biographical information exists for the anonymous author or authors of this corpus. The works were composed between the 1st and 4th centuries CE during the Roman Imperial and Late Antique periods and are written in Koine Greek, the common literary dialect of the era.
The corpus consists of 25 extant short prose narratives transmitted together as a collection. The individual titles are not specified in the consulted sources, but the works are uniformly described as anonymous erotic tales or novels.
The Erotic Narrative Anonymous provides significant insight into popular fictional literature of the Roman era. As a collection of erotic tales, it offers comparative material for studying narrative conventions, readership, and social attitudes toward love and sexuality outside the canonical ideal Greek novels. Its preservation allows for analysis of non-canonical, entertainment-focused prose in Koine Greek.