This collection of essays investigates histories in the ancient world and the extent to which the producers and consumers of those histories believed them to be true. Beginning with comparisons between historiography and aspects of belief in Greek tragedy, chapters include discussions of historiography through the works of Herodotus, Xenop
This collection of essays investigates histories in the ancient world and the extent to which the producers and consumers of those histories believed them to be true. Beginning with comparisons between historiography and aspects of belief in Greek tragedy, chapters include discussions of historiography through the works of Herodotus, Xenop
Lisa Irene Hau is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Glasgow, UK. She has published articles on Greek historiography, moralising and narrative technique, and she is working on a book on moral didacticism in Greek historiography. She is co-editor of Beyond the Battlefields: New Perspectives on Warfare and Society in the Graeco-Roman World (2008). Ian Ruffell is Lecturer in Classics at the University of Glasgow, UK. He is author of Politics and Anti-Realism in Athenian Old Comedy: the Art of the Impossible (2011) and Aeschylus: Prometheus Bound (2012).
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Preface Abbreviations List of Contributors 1. Introduction Ian Ruffell and Lisa Irene Hau 2. The Challenging Abundance of the Past: Pluralising and Reducing in Pindar's Victory Songs Jan R. Stenger 3. Tragedy and Fictionality Ian Ruffell 4. Seventeen Types of Ambiguity in Euripides' Helen Matthew Wright 5. Multiple Ways to Access the Past: the Myth of Oedipus, Sophocles' Oedipus Rex and Herodotus' Histories Catherine Darbo-Peschanski 6. Fictional Truth and Factual Truth in Herodotus Anthony Ellis 7. Se non è vero: On the Use of Untrue Stories in Herodotus. Katharina Wesselmann 8. Intertextuality and Plural Truths in Xenophon's Historical Narrative Emily Baragwanath 9. Ctesias of Cnidus: Poet, Novelist or Historian? Alexander Meeus 10. The Aesthetics of Truth: Narrative and Historical Hermeneutics in Polybius' Histories Nicolas Wiater 11. Truth and Moralising: the Twin Aims of the Hellenistic Historiographers Lisa Irene Hau 12. Alexander and the Amazonian Queen: Truth and Fiction Joseph Roisman 13. Lucian on Truth and Lies in Ancient Historiography: the Theory and its Limits Melina Tamiolaki Index
Preface Abbreviations List of Contributors 1. Introduction Ian Ruffell and Lisa Irene Hau 2. The Challenging Abundance of the Past: Pluralising and Reducing in Pindar's Victory Songs Jan R. Stenger 3. Tragedy and Fictionality Ian Ruffell 4. Seventeen Types of Ambiguity in Euripides' Helen Matthew Wright 5. Multiple Ways to Access the Past: the Myth of Oedipus, Sophocles' Oedipus Rex and Herodotus' Histories Catherine Darbo-Peschanski 6. Fictional Truth and Factual Truth in Herodotus Anthony Ellis 7. Se non è vero: On the Use of Untrue Stories in Herodotus. Katharina Wesselmann 8. Intertextuality and Plural Truths in Xenophon's Historical Narrative Emily Baragwanath 9. Ctesias of Cnidus: Poet, Novelist or Historian? Alexander Meeus 10. The Aesthetics of Truth: Narrative and Historical Hermeneutics in Polybius' Histories Nicolas Wiater 11. Truth and Moralising: the Twin Aims of the Hellenistic Historiographers Lisa Irene Hau 12. Alexander and the Amazonian Queen: Truth and Fiction Joseph Roisman 13. Lucian on Truth and Lies in Ancient Historiography: the Theory and its Limits Melina Tamiolaki Index
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