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

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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

(Impact of empire, v. 11)

Brill, 2010

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Proceedings of the conference held at the University of Melbourne from 7-10 July 2008

Includes bibliographical references (p. [387]-423) and indexes

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内容説明

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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Preface Introduction Abbreviations List of Contributors I. The Graeco-Hellenistic World 1. Jonathan Hall, Autochthonous Autocrats: The tyranny of the Athenian democracy 2. Peter Londey, Phokian Desperation: Private and public in the outbreak of the 3rd Sacred War 3. Brian Bosworth, Truth and falsehood in early Hellenistic propaganda 4. Jonathan Prag, Tyrannizing Sicily: The despots who cried 'Carthage' II. Republican Rome 5. Francisco Pina Polo, Frigidus rumor: The creation of a (negative) public image in Rome 6. Christopher Dart, Deceit and the struggle for Roman franchise in Italy 7. Frederic Hurlet, Pouvoirs extraordinaires et tromperie. La tentation de la monarchie a la fin de la Republique romaine (82-44 av. J.-C.) III. Augustan dissimulation 8. Frederik Vervaet, Arrogating despotic power through deceit: the Pompeian model for Augustan dissimulatio 9. John Rich, Deception, lies, and economy with the truth: Augustus and the establishment of the principate IV. Early imperial literature 10. Andrew Turner, Lucan's Cleopatra 11. John Penwill, Damn with great praise? The imperial encomia of Lucan and Silius 12. Enrica Sciarrino, What 'lies' behind Phaedrus' fables? 13. Parshia Lee-Stecum, Mendacia maiorum: tales of deceit in pre-Republican Rome 14. Cristina Calhoon, Is there an antidote to Caesar? The despot as uenenum and ueneficus 15. K.O. Chong-Gossard, Who slept with whom in the Roman empire? Women, sex, and scandal in Suetonius' Lives of the Caesars V. The later empire 16. Martijn Icks, From priest to emperor to priest-emperor: The failed legitimation of Elagabalus 17. Bruno Bleckmann, Constantinus tyrannus: Das negative Konstantinsbild in der paganen Historiographie und seine Nuancen 18. Amelia Brown, Justinian, Procopius, and deception: Literary lies, imperial politics, and the archaeology of sixth-century Greece VI. The broader context 19. Ron Ridley, Despotism and Deceit: Yes, but what happened before and after? Bibliography Index

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