Lies and fiction in the ancient world
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Lies and fiction in the ancient world
University of Exeter Press, 1993
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Bibliography: p. 245-254
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Description
This collection of essays explores the key issue of the nature of the boundary between fact and fiction, an issue which has become prominent especially through the upsurge of interest in the ancient novel and recent work on the rhetorical character of ancient historiography. The collection covers early Greek poetry (E.L. Bowie), Greek and Roman historiography (John Moles and T.P. Wiseman), Plato (Christopher Gill) and the Greek and Roman novel (John Morgan and Andrew Laird), and especially considers how far 'lying' was distinguished from 'fiction' at different periods and in different genres.
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Contents
Fiction, lies and slander in archaic Greek poetry, E.L. Bowie
Plato on falsehood - not fiction, Christopher Gill
Truth and untruth in Greed and Roman historiography, J.L. Moles
Lying historians - seven types of mendacity, T.P. Wiseman
Fiction, bewitchment and story worlds - the 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
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