Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 2, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780521028714
Subjects: European history: BCE to c 500 CE; Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Rhetoric; Social & cultural anthropology; History; Sociology; Ancient (Classical) Greek; History: World; Ancient Greece; Ancient - Greece; Anthropology - Cultural; Deception; Democracy; Democracy--Greece--Athens; History / Ancient / Greece; History / General; Social Science : Anthropology - Cultural; General
First sentence: British statesmen and public men have never at any time used mendacity as an instrument of war, still less have they uttered such praises of lying as Hitler has done in Mein Kampf . . . In Great Britain we believe in the ultimate power of Truth.