Lies and fiction in the ancient world /

Where the boundary lies between falsehood and fiction, between an actual untruth and an admitted invention, has set off many debates in intellectual circles. In classical studies, this issue has gained prominence through the upsurge of interest in the ancient novel and through recent work on the rhe...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Gill, Christopher, 1946- (Editor ), Wiseman, T. P. (Timothy Peter) (Editor ), Bowie, E. L.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Exeter, Devon, UK : University of Exeter Press, 1993.
Temas:
Classical literature > History and criticism.
Truthfulness and falsehood > History.
History, Ancient > Historiography.
Literature and history > Greece.
Literature and history > Rome.
Fictions, Theory of.
Littérature ancienne > Histoire et critique.
Histoire ancienne > Historiographie.
Littérature et histoire > Grèce.
Littérature et histoire > Rome.
Théorie de la fiction.
Mensonge > Histoire.
Classical literature
Fictions, Theory of
History, Ancient > Historiography
Literature and history
Truthfulness and falsehood
Kongress
Literatur
Lüge
Waarheid.
Liegen.
Klassieke oudheid.
Greece
Rome (Empire)
Griechisch.
Latein.
Greek fiction
Greek poetry
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Exeter (1991)
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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