{"product_id":"lies-and-fiction-in-the-ancient-world-9780859893817","title":"Lies and Fiction in the Ancient World","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJames Tatum\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eContents\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFiction, lies and slander in archaic Greek poetry, E.L. Bowie\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePlato on falsehood - not fiction, Christopher Gill\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTruth and untruth in Greed and Roman historiography, J.L. Moles\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLying historians - seven types of mendacity, T.P. Wiseman\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFiction, bewitchment and story worlds - the implications of claims to truth in Apuleius, Andrew Laird\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMake-believe and make believe - the fictionality of the Greek novels, J.R. Morgan\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTowards an account of the ancient world's concept of fictive belief, D.C. Feeney\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Liverpool University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51038922932567,"sku":"9780859893817","price":109.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780859893817.jpg?v=1750941954","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/lies-and-fiction-in-the-ancient-world-9780859893817","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}