Private and Public Lies

Andrew J. Turner, Ph.D. (2000) in Classics, University of Melbourne, was an Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow from 2005-2008. He is co-author of Eadmer of Canterbury (Oxford, 2006), and co-editor of a digital edition of a manuscript of Terence (Oxford, 2010).James H. Kim On Chong-Gossard, Ph.D. (1999) in Classical Philology, University of Michigan, is a Senior Lecturer in classics at The University of Melbourne. He is author of Gender and Communication in Euripides’ Plays: Between Song and Silence (Brill, 2008).Frederik Juliaan Vervaet, Ph.D. (2002) in History, Ghent University, is a Lecturer in ancient history at The University of Melbourne. He has published extensively on Roman republican history in such journals as Klio, Latomus, and Athenaeum.Contributors: Bruno Bleckmann, Brian Bosworth, Amelia R. Brown, Cristina G. Calhoon, James H. Kim On Chong-Gossard, Christopher J. Dart, Jonathan M. Hall, Frédéric Hurlet, Martijn Icks, Parshia Lee-Stecum, Peter Londey, John Penwill, Francisco Pina Polo, Jonathan Prag, John W. Rich, Ron Ridley, Enrica Sciarrino, Andrew J. Turner, and Frederik Juliaan Vervaet.

• PrefaceIntroductionAbbreviationsList of ContributorsI. The Graeco-Hellenistic World1.Jonathan Hall, Autochthonous Autocrats: The tyranny of the Athenian democracy2.Peter Londey, Phokian Desperation: Private and public in the outbreak of the 3rd Sacred War3.Brian Bosworth, Truth and falsehood in early Hellenistic propaganda4.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 Rome6.Christopher Dart, Deceit and the struggle for Roman franchise in Italy7.Frédéric Hurlet, Pouvoirs extraordinaires et tromperie. La tentation de la monarchie à la fin de la République romaine (82-44 av. J.-C.)III. Augustan dissimulation8.Frederik Vervaet, Arrogating despotic power through deceit: the Pompeian model for Augustan dissimulatio9.John Rich, Deception, lies, and economy with the truth: Augustus and the establishment of the principateIV. Early imperial literature10.Andrew Turner, Lucan’s Cleopatra11.John Penwill, Damn with great praise? The imperial encomia of Lucan and Silius12.Enrica Sciarrino, What ‘lies’ behind Phaedrus’ fables?13.Parshia Lee-Stecum, Mendacia maiorum: tales of deceit in pre-Republican Rome14.Cristina Calhoon, Is there an antidote to Caesar? The despot as uenenum and ueneficus15.K.O. Chong-Gossard, Who slept with whom in the Roman empire? Women, sex, and scandal in Suetonius’ Lives of the CaesarsV. The later empire16.Martijn Icks, From priest to emperor to priest-emperor: The failed legitimation of Elagabalus17.Bruno Bleckmann, Constantinus tyrannus: Das negative Konstantinsbild in der paganen Historiographie und seine Nuancen18.Amelia Brown, Justinian, Procopius, and deception: Literary lies, imperial politics, and the archaeology of sixth-century GreeceVI. The broader context19.Ron Ridley, Despotism and Deceit: Yes, but what happened before and after?BibliographyIndex