Criteria of Truth: Representations of Truth and Falsehood in Hellenistic Poetry

by Kathleen Kidder

Amidst conflicting information and personal experiences, how can someone distinguish between truth and falsehood? Criteria of Truth: Representations of Truth and Falsehood in Hellenistic Poetry tackles this fundamental question through a study of five Hellenistic poems dated to the third and second centuries BCE: Aratus's Phaenomena, Nicander's Theriaca, Callimachus's Aetia, Apollonius of Rhodes's Argonautica,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674292421
• ISBN13: 9780674292420
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 262 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 9.0"