Author: blankISBN: 9781835201602Booktype: PaperbackLanguage: English David Potter, writing on the subject of narrative validity and historiography in the Classics, cites Pliny the Younger recounting a story heard at a dinner party, I trust the person who told it, although what is truth to poets? Still, the person who told the story is one of whom you might think well if you were to write history. (9.33.1, qtd. in Potter 5) Pliny's good-natured remark seems to question the truthfulness of…
