Preview   Eve fell victim to the serpent’s persuasive “fake news” about the forbidden fruit, so subsequent history became misery. Vergil’s Sinon convinced the Trojans to bring the wooden equid offering inside Troy’s walls. This was real “fake news” in a mythical fiction: false facts about new phenomena promoted public persuasion with personal and Achaean … Continue reading Fake news in ancient Greece: forms and functions of ‘false information’ in ancient Greek literature