Birth of Literary Fiction in Ancient Greece - Finkelberg, Margalit (Associate Professor in Classics, Associate Professor in Classics, University of Tel Aviv)

The purpose of this study is to find out how and why the `poetics of fiction' arose, its sources, and the materials from which it was created. A series of cultural choices made in archaic and classical Greece produced a clash between the traditional `poetics of truth', and the new `poetics of fiction', which derived poetry from art.