Ebook: Lies and Fiction in the Ancient World (Classics)

These six new essays explore the understanding of the boundary between fact and fiction in Ancient Greece and Rome and the connections between ancient and modern thinking on this topic. Contributors include: E L Bowie (Lies, fiction and slander in early Greek poetry); C Gill (Plato on falsehood); J L Moles (Truth and untruth in Herodotus and Thucydides); T P Wiseman (Lying historians); A Laird (The implications of claims to truth in Apuleius); J R Morgan (The fictionality of Greek novels).