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Lies and Fiction in the Ancient World (Classics)

By Christopher Gill , T.P. Wiseman

Book information

Year
1993
ISBN
0859893812, 9780859893817, 0292727674, 9780292727670
LCC
PA3009 .L54 1993
Open Library ID
OL1409986M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
4 MB (3950860 bytes)
Pages
281\279
Topic
History
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

These six new essays explore the understanding of the boundary between fact and fiction in Ancient Greece and Rome and the connections between ancient and modern thinking on this topic. Contributors include: E L Bowie (Lies, fiction and slander in early Greek poetry); C Gill (Plato on falsehood); J L Moles (Truth and untruth in Herodotus and Thucydides); T P Wiseman (Lying historians); A Laird (The implications of claims to truth in Apuleius); J R Morgan (The fictionality of Greek novels).

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