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Michael Wood, EL Bowie, Christopher Gill, JL Moles, TP Wiseman, Andrew Laird, JR Morgan, DC Feeney E L J L T P J R D CBiblio.com

Lies and Fiction in the Ancient World Classics

1993rif. 7M-QW1E-D8VO1993 Liverpool University Press hardcover edition. Previous owner's name to endpaper else very good condition. The nature of the boundary between fact and fiction is a key issue of current intellectual life. In Classical studies this issue has become prominent especially through the upsurge of interest in the ancient novel and recent work on the rhetorical character of ancient historiography. This collection of new essays explores this issue 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 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 is translated and the collection is designed to be accessible to students of literature and history generally as well as to Classicists. Contents: Prologue by Michael Wood 1 Chapter One: Lies Fiction and Slander in Early Greek Poetry by E.L. Bowie 2 Chapter Two: Plato on Falsehood - not Fiction by Christopher Gill 3 Chapter Three: Truth and Untruth in Herodotus and Thucydides by J.L. Moles 4 Chapter Four: Lying Historians: Seven Types of Mendacity by T.P. Wiseman 5 Chapter Five: Fiction Bewitchment and Story Worlds: The Implications of Claims to Truth in Apuleius by Andrew Laird 6 Chapter Six: Make-Believe and Make Believe: The Fictionality of the Greek Novels by J.R. Morgan Epilogue: Towards an Account of the Ancient World's Concept of Fictive Belief by D.C. Feeney Liverpool University Press hardcover

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