Lies and fiction in the ancient world / edited by Christopher Gill and T.P. Wiseman
1993, 1st edition. Exeter, Devon, UK : University of Exeter Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #429042
ISBN: 0859893812
Physical description; xviii, 263 pages. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Contents; Lies, fiction and slander in early Greek poetry / E.L. Bowie -- Plato on falsehood, not fiction / Christopher Gill -- Truth and untruth in Herodotus and Thucydides / J.L. Moles -- Lying historians : seven types of mendacity / T.P. Wiseman -- Fiction, bewitchment and story worlds : implications of claims to truth in Apuleius / Andrew Laird -- Make-believe and make believe : the fictionality of the Greek novels / J.R. Morgan -- Towards an account of the ancient world's concept of fictive belief / D.C. Feeney. Subjects; Classical literature History and criticism. Truthfulness and falsehood History. History, Ancient Historiography. Literature and history Greece. Literature and history Rome. Fictions, Theory of. Classical literature. Fictions, Theory of. History, Ancient Historiography. Literature and history. Truthfulness and falsehood. Classical literature History and criticism. Philosophy, Ancient. Classical fiction History and criticism. Truthfulness and falsehood in literature. Classical literature History and criticism Addresses, essays, lectures. Historiography Greece. Historiography Rome. Fiction, Ancient History and criticism. Greek poetry History and criticism. Romances, Greek History and criticism. Historiography Greece History. Historiography Rome History. Fictions, Theory of.
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