The Concept of News in Ancient Greek Literature

The Concept of News in Ancient Greek Literature
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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages : 344
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ISBN-10 : 9783111022956
ISBN-13 : 3111022951
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Book Synopsis The Concept of News in Ancient Greek Literature by : Raquel Fornieles

Download or read book The Concept of News in Ancient Greek Literature written by Raquel Fornieles and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-12-05 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of news that we have today is not a modern invention, but rather a social and cultural institution that has been passed down to us by the Greeks as a legacy. This concept is only modified by the social, political, and economic conditions that make our society different from theirs. In order to understand what was considered news in Ancient Greece, a lexical study of ἄγγελος and all of its derivatives attested in a representative corpus of the period spanning from the second millennium BC to the end of the fourth BC has been conducted. This piece of research provides new contributions both to studies in Classics (there are hardly any studies on the transmission of news in Antiquity) and in journalism. This study also reveals an interesting point: the presence of false news – similar to current fake news – in ancient Greek literature, especially in tragedy and historiography when it comes to the use of the derivatives of ἄγγελος.


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