Misinformation, Disinformation and Propaganda in Greek Historiography

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Mindful of the present state of discourse on ancient Greek historiography, this edited volume explores the major themes of pursuing factuality, falling into historical error and creating propaganda. Even the greatest ancient historians, striving for factuality and truthfulness, commence from subjectivity. Their works, when studied closely, reveal biases and ideological distortions. For this reason, Misinformation, Disinformation and Propaganda in Greek Historiography strives to evaluate the issues which stand in the way of factuality in historical texts and records. The contributors, all experts in the field, question the accuracy of the historiography in question, the ancient author's fidelity to their sources, and the evidence presented in relation to their inherited oral tradition. In this way, the ancient author's methodology is evaluated in terms of its probability, the awareness of its cultural variation and the influences which we can deduce within the texts. This volume presents an important contribution to the study of what constitutes fact and fiction within ancient Greek historiography.

Noch nicht erschienen, Dezember 2024