Aimed at scholars and students of classics, history, and literature, as well as at informed general readers, this book focuses on a topic central to the intellectual debate in literary criticism and in historical studies, namely the relationship between fact and fiction. This volume of essays explores the understanding of the boundary between fact and fiction in Ancient Greece and Rome and considers especially how far "lying" was distinguished from "fiction" at different periods and in different genres. The areas covered are early Greek poetry, Plato, Greek and Roman historiography, and the Greek and Roman novel. All Greek and Latin is translated, and the collection is designed to be acessible to students of literature and history as well as those studying the Ancient World.