Lies and Fiction in the Ancient World

by: Gill, C. Wiseman, T.P.

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Lies and fiction in the ancient world
Authors:Christopher Gill (Editor), T. P. Wiseman (Editor), E. L. Bowie

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.

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 rhetorical character of ancient historiography. This pathfinding collection of essays charts the borderland between falsehood and fiction in the ancient world, especially by considering how far "lying" was distinguished from "fiction" at different periods and in different genres. The areas covered are early Greek poetry (E.L. Bowie), Plato (Christopher Gill), Greek and Roman historiography (J.L. Moles and T.P. Wiseman), and the Greek and Roman novel (J.R. Morgan and Andrew Laird). Michael Wood and D.C. Feeney discuss the literary critical questions involved and draw connections with contemporary debate. All Greek and Latin passages are translated into English, and the collection is designed to be accessible to students of literature and history generally, as well as to Classicists

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
Classical literature History and criticism
Criticism, interpretation, etc
Exeter (1991)
Fictions, Theory of
Greece
Greek fiction
Greek poetry
Griechisch
Histoire ancienne Historiographie
History
History, Ancient Historiography
Klassieke oudheid
Kongress
Latein
Liegen
Literatur
Literature and history
Literature and history Greece
Literature and history Rome
Littérature ancienne Histoire et critique
Littérature et histoire Grèce
Littérature et histoire Rome
Lüge
Mensonge Histoire
Rome (Empire)
Théorie de la fiction
Truthfulness and falsehood
Truthfulness and falsehood History
Waarheid

Lies and Fiction in the Ancient World

by: Gill, C. Wiseman, T.P.

• ISBN-13: 9780859893817 / 978-0-85989-381-7
• ISBN-03: 0859893812 / 0-85989-381-2
• University of Exeter Press, Exeter, 1983

Price: 99,00 EURO

1 copy in stock