Description
Book SynopsisThis 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.
Trade ReviewIt has long been recognized that the imagination of the novelist, the poet, and the historian must be related in important, intimate ways. This collection advances our understanding of those related imaginations.
James TatumTable of Contents
- 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
