Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens

ISBN-13: 9780521643221 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 346 str.

Jon Hesk

Opis

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.

Recenzje

'… thoughtful and wide-ranging.' Perspectives on Politics

Spis treści

Preface; Prologue; 1. Deception and the rhetoric of Athenian identity; 2. Deceiving the enemy: negotiation and anxiety; 3. Athens and the 'noble lie'; 4. The rhetoric of anti-rhetoric: Athenian oratory; 5. Thinking with the rhetoric of anti-rhetoric; Epilogue; Bibliography; Indexes.