Criteria of Truth

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Representations of Truth and Falsehood in Hellenistic Poetry

By Kathleen Kidder

Series: Hellenic Studies Series

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Criteria of Truth explores how five Hellenistic poems from the third and second centuries BCE engage with the challenge of discerning truth from falsehood. Kathleen Kidder analyses works by Aratus, Nicander, Callimachus, Apollonius of Rhodes, and Lycophron, showing how each poem’s persona embodies different philosophical approaches to evaluating truth. The book reveals how these ancient texts explore complex tensions such as order versus chaos and certainty versus doubt, grounded in their intellectual and literary contexts.
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This book is ideal for readers interested in classical literature, Hellenistic poetry, and ancient philosophy. Scholars and students of arts and culture will find it particularly insightful for understanding poetic representations of truth in antiquity.

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 by Aratus, Nicander, Callimachus, Apollonius of Rhodes, and Lycophron.

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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, and Lycophron's Alexandra.

Situating these poetic works in their intellectual and literary milieu, Kathleen Kidder applies the philosophic concept of the criterion of truth, arguing that each poetic persona represents a different criterion for interrogating truth and falsehood. Moreover, by analysing the poems' allusions, myths, and poetic language, Kidder demonstrates how this poetry can encapsulate the tensions not only between truth and falsehood, but also between order and chaos, certainty and doubt, clarity and obscurity, seen and unseen, and being and seeming.