Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens

✍ Scribed by Jon Hesk

Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2001
Tongue: English
Leaves: 345
Edition: First Ed
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

This book is a study of the ways in which classical Athenian texts represent and evaluate the morality of deception. It is particularly concerned with the way in which the telling of lies was a problem for the world's first democracy and compares this problem with the modern Western situation. There are major sections on Greek tragedy, comedy, oratory, historiography and philosophy.

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