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Private and public lies : the discourse of despotism and deceit in the Graeco-Roman world / edited by Andrew J. Turner, James H. Kim On Chong-Gossard, and Frederik Juliaan Vervaet.

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Private and public lies : the discourse of despotism and deceit in the Graeco-Roman world / edited by Andrew J. Turner, James H. Kim On Chong-Gossard, and Frederik Juliaan Vervaet.
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Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.

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Additional Authors
  • Turner, Andrew J.
  • Chong-Gossard, K. O.
  • Vervaet, Frederik.
  • Private and public lies (2008 : University of Melbourne)
Description
xx, 439 p.; 25 cm.
Summary
"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 citizen 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."--BOOK JACKET.
Series Statement
Impact of Empire ; v. 11
Uniform Title
Impact of Empire (Roman Empire, c. 200 B.C.-A.D. 476) (Series) ; 11.
Alternative Title
Discourse of despotism and deceit in the Graeco-Roman world
Subject
  • To 1500
  • Despotism > Greece > History > To 1500
  • Despotism > Rome > History > Congresses
  • Deception > History to 1500 > Greece > Congresses
  • Deception > History > Rome > Congresses
  • Despotism > Greece > History > To 1500 > Congresses
Genre/Form
  • Conference papers and proceedings
  • History
Note
  • Proceedings of the conference held July 7-10, 2008 at the University of Melbourne.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [387]-423) and indexes.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The Graeco-Hellenistic world -- Republican Rome -- Augustian dissimulation -- Early imperial literature -- The later empire -- The broader context.
ISBN
  • 9789004187757 (hardback : alk. paper)
  • 9004187758 (hardback : alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2010018053
OCLC
  • 612961688
  • SCSB-10544648
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library