ABSTRACT

Any book on resemblance and reality in Greek literature is almost required to start with a nod to the famous claim of Hesiod’s Muses (Theog. 27-8):

ἴδμεν ψεύδεα πολλὰ λέγειν ἐτύμοισιν ὁμοῖα, ἴδμεν δ᾽, εὖτ᾽ ἐθέλωμεν, ἀληθέα γηρύσασθαι.