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

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

From ancient Rome to the current Internet age, this sweeping history of ideas explores how different epochs wrestled with the issue of truth and lies. From the

First published in 1991, this book — through the examination of ancient Greek literary, philosophical and legal texts — analyses how the Athenian torture of

These essays explore the understanding of the boundary between fact and fiction in Ancient Greece and Rome and considers how far 'lying' was distinguished from