Private and Public Lies: The Discourse of Despotism and Deceit in the Graeco-Roman WorldAndrew J. Turner, K. O. Chong-Gossard, Frederik Juliaan Vervaet BRILL, 2010 - Всего страниц: 439 Graeco-Roman literary works, historiography, and even the reporting of rumours were couched as if they came in response to an insatiable desire by ordinary citizens to know everything about the lives of their leaders, and to hold them to account, at some level, for their abuse of constitutional powers for personal ends. Ancient writers were equally fascinated with how these same individuals used deceit as a powerful tool to disguise private and public reality. The chapters in this collection examine the themes of despotism and deceit from both historical and literary perspectives, over a range of historical periods including classical Athens, the Hellenistic kingdoms, late republican and early imperial Rome, late antiquity, and Byzantium. |
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THE GRAECOHELLENISTIC WORLD | 8 |
Autochthonous Autocrats | 10 |
Phokian Desperation | 28 |
Truth and Falsehood in Early Hellenistic Propaganda | 38 |
The Despots who Cried Carthage | 50 |
REPUBLICAN ROME | 72 |
Frigidus Rumor | 74 |
Deceit and the Struggle for Roman Franchise in Italy | 90 |
What Lies behind Phaedrus Fables? | 230 |
Tales of Deceit in PreRepublican Rome | 248 |
Is There an Antidote to Caesar? | 270 |
Who Slept with Whom in the Roman Empire? | 294 |
THE LATER EMPIRE | 328 |
From Priest to Emperor to PriestEmperor | 330 |
Constantinus Tyrannus | 342 |
Justinian Procopius and Deception | 354 |
Pouvoirs extraordinaires et tromperie | 106 |
AUGUSTAN DISSIMULATION | 130 |
Arrogating Despotic Power Through Deceit | 132 |
Deception Lies and Economy with the Truth | 166 |
EARLY IMPERIAL LITERATURE | 192 |
Lucans Cleopatra | 194 |
The Imperial Encomia of Lucan and Silius | 210 |
THE BROADER CONTEXT | 370 |
Despotism and Deceit | 372 |
Bibliography | 386 |
Index | 424 |
Index Locorum | 430 |
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