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Overview
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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- ISBN-13: 9780521643221
- ISBN-10: 0521643228
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Publish Date: November 2000
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.94 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.49 pounds
- Page Count: 346
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