Truth and history in the ancient world: pluralising the past

Preface AbbreviationsList of Contributors1. Introduction Ian Ruffell and Lisa Irene Hau2. The Challenging Abundance of the Past: Pluralising and Reducing in Pindar's Victory SongsJan R. Stenger3. Tragedy and FictionalityIan Ruffell4. Seventeen Types of Ambiguity in Euripides' Helen Matthew Wright5. Multiple Ways to Access the Past: the Myth of Oedipus, Sophocles' Oedipus Rex and Herodotus' Histories Catherine Darbo-Peschanski6. Fictional Truth and Factual Truth in Herodotus Anthony Ellis7. Se non e vero: On the Use of Untrue Stories in Herodotus.Katharina Wesselmann8. Intertextuality and Plural Truths in Xenophon's Historical NarrativeEmily Baragwanath9. Ctesias of Cnidus: Poet, Novelist or Historian?Alexander Meeus10. The Aesthetics of Truth: Narrative and Historical Hermeneutics in Polybius' HistoriesNicolas Wiater11. Truth and Moralising: the Twin Aims of the Hellenistic HistoriographersLisa Irene Hau12. Alexander and the Amazonian Queen: Truth and FictionJoseph Roisman13. Lucian on Truth and Lies in Ancient Historiography: the Theory and its LimitsMelina TamiolakiIndex