Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens
- Hardback
- ISBN:9780521643221
- Publication date:January 2001
- 346pages
- Dimensions: 228 x 152 mm
- Weight: 0.68kg
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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.
