Private and public lies : the discourse of despotism and deceit in the Graeco-Roman world /

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This book examines despotism and deceit in the Graeco-Roman world from 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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Turner, Andrew J., Chong-Gossard, K. O., Vervaet, Frederik
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010.
Colección:Impact of Empire (Roman Empire, c. 200 B.C.-A.D. 476) (Series) ; 2.
Temas:
To 1500
Despotism > Greece > History > To 1500.
Despotism > Rome > History.
Deception > Political aspects > Greece > History > To 1500.
Deception > Political aspects > Rome > History.
Despotisme > Rome > Histoire.
Tromperie > Aspect politique > Rome > Histoire.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Political Process > General.
Deception > Political aspects
Despotism
Despotism > historia > Grekland > före 1500.
Despotism > historia > Romerska riket > före 1500.
Greece
Rome (Empire)
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Machine generated contents note: GRAECO-HELLENISTIC WORLD
  • Autochthonous Autocrats: The tyranny of the Athenian democracy / Jonathan Hall
  • Phokian Desperation: Private and public in the outbreak of the 3rd Sacred War / Peter Londey
  • Truth and falsehood in early Hellenistic propaganda / Brian Bosworth
  • Tyrannizing Sicily: The despots who cried `Carthage!' / Jonathan Prag
  • REPUBLICAN ROME
  • Frigidus rumor: The creation of a (negative) public image in Rome / Francisco Pina Polo
  • Deceit and the struggle for Roman franchise in Italy / Christopher Dart
  • Pouvoirs extraordinaires et tromperie. La tentation de la monarchie a la fin de la Republique romaine (82-44 av. J.-C.) / Frederic Hurlet
  • AUGUSTAN DISSIMULATION
  • Arrogating despotic power through deceit: the Pompeian model for Augustan dissimulatio / Frederik Juliaan Vervaet
  • Deception, lies, and economy with the truth: Augustus and the establishment of the principate / John Rich
  • EARLY IMPERIAL LITERATURE
  • Lucan's Cleopatra / Andrew J. Turner
  • Damn with great praise? The imperial encomia of Lucan and Silius / John Penwill
  • What `lies' behind Phaedrus' fables? / Enrica Sciarrino
  • Mendacia maiorum: tales of deceit in pre-Republican Rome / Parshia Lee-Stecum
  • Is there an antidote to Caesar? The despot as venenum and veneficus / Cristina Calhoon
  • Who slept with whom in the Roman empire? Women, sex, and scandal in Suetonius' Caesares / James H. Kim On Chong-Gossard
  • LATER EMPIRE
  • From priest to emperor to priest-emperor: The failed legitimation of Elagabalus / Martijn Icks
  • Constantinus tyrannus: Das negative Konstantinsbild in der paganen Historiographie und seine Nuancen / Bruno Bleckmann
  • Justinian, Procopius, and deception: Literary lies, imperial politics, and the archaeology of sixth-century Greece / Amelia Brown
  • BROADER CONTEXT.

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