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Truth and history in the ancient world : pluralising the past
Title
Truth and history in the ancient world : pluralising the past / edited by Ian Ruffell and Lisa Irene Hau.
ISBN
9781138839403
113883940X
9781315733463
Publication
New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.
Copyright Notice Date
©2017
Physical Description
vi, 288 pages ; 25 cm.
Summary
"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. Ancient Greek historiographers repeatedly stressed the importance of truth to history; yet they also purported to believe in myth, distorted facts for nationalistic or moralizing purposes, and omitted events that modern audiences might consider crucial to a truthful account of the past. Truth and History in the Ancient World explores a pluralistic concept of truth--one in which different versions of the same historical event can all be true--or different kinds of truths and modes of belief are contingent on culture"--Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 20, 2017
Series
Routledge studies in ancient history
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction / Ian Ruffell and Lisa Irene Hau
The challenging abundance of the past : pluralising and reducing in Pindar's victory songs / Jan R. Stenger
Tragedy and fictionality / Ian Ruffell
Seventeen types of ambiguity in Euripides' Helen / Matthew Wright
Multiple ways to access the past : the myth of Oedipus, Sophocles' Oedipus Rex and Herodotus' Histories / Catherine Darbo-Peschanski
Fictional truth and factual truth in Herodotus / Anthony Ellis
Se non è vero : on the use of untrue stories in Herodotus / Katharina Wesselmann
Intertextuality and plural truths in Xenophon's historical narrative / Emily Baragwanath
Ctesias of Cnidus : poet, novelist or historian? / Alexander Meeus
The aesthetics of truth : narrative and historical hermeneutics in Polybius' Histories / Nicolas Wiater
Truth and moralising : the twin aims of the Hellenistic historiographers / Lisa Irene Hau
Alexander and the Amazonian queen : truth and fiction / Joseph Roisman
Lucian on truth and lies in ancient historiography : the theory and its limits / Melina Tamiolaki.
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