BRILL | 2010-08-10| ISBN: 9004187758 | 440 pages | PDF | 11,4 MB
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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