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

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 powe...

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Corporate Author: Private and public lies

Other Authors: Turner, Andrew J., Chong-Gossard, K. O., Vervaet, Frederik.

Format: Conference Proceeding eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden, the Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, 2010.

Series: Impact of Empire 11.
Impact of Empire Online, ISBN: 9789004411142.

Subjects:

Despotism > Greece > History > To 1500 > Congresses.

Despotism > Rome > History > Congresses.

Deception > Political aspects > History to 1500 > Greece > Congresses.