The concept of fiction has evolved historically and cannot be reduced to stipulative definition. Fiction represents a complex zone of narrative possibilities which cuts across a strict dichotomy of truth and falsehood. Greek awareness of fictionality arises in relation to, but is not fully distinct from, ideas of myth and history. Classical thinkers including Gorgias, Plato, Isocrates, and Aristotle all develop subtly different, and differently motivated, conceptions of fiction. In the post-Classical period, attempts were made – visible in the Latin as well as Greek tradition – to produce typologies of narrative discourse which made room for fiction; but such typologies contained unresolved problems. Longinus, On the Sublime, recognizes the fictionalizing power of creative imagination but nonetheless connects this to the “truth” of the sublime as a transfigurative experience.