Lying and poetry from Homer to Pindar
Subtitle: falsehood and deception in archaic Greek poetics
By: Louise H. Pratt.
Series: Michigan monographs in classical antiquity
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
Subjects: Pindar -- Ethics.; Homer -- Ethics.; Greek poetry -- History and criticism.; Truthfulness and falsehood in literature.; Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- To 1500.; Poetics -- History -- To 1500.; Deception in literature.; Rhetoric, Ancient.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-165) and index.
Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Michigan, 1988.