| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 439 pages) |
| Series |
Impact of Empire, 1572-0500 ; v. 2 |
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Impact of Empire (Roman Empire, c. 200 B.C.-A.D. 476) (Series) ; 2.
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| Contents |
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 |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Despotism -- Greece -- History -- To 1500
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Despotism -- Rome -- History
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Deception -- Political aspects -- Greece -- History -- To 1500
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Deception -- Political aspects -- Rome -- History
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- General.
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Deception -- Political aspects
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Despotism
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Despotism -- historia -- Grekland -- före 1500.
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Despotism -- historia -- Romerska riket -- före 1500.
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Greece
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Rome (Empire)
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Turner, Andrew J.
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Chong-Gossard, K. O.
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Vervaet, Frederik.
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| ISBN |
9789004188839 |
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9004188835 |
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