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 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 .
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