The article deals with paremias and paremiological expressions in the language of ancient Greek novels of Achilles Tatius’s „Leucippe and Clitophon”, Longus’s “Daphnis and Chloe”, Chariton’s “Chaereas and Callirhoe”. Semantic fields organized around the lexical units – main dominants of paremiological utterances are pointed out. The most typical artistic and stylistic figures (antithesis, hyperbole, parallelism, simile etc.) as constituents of the writers’ paremiological expressions are examined. We analyzed various functions of paremias (general didactic, cognitive, comic, polemical, function of interpretation, comment, estimation of certain situation) as means of author's language picture of the world.