The art of veiled speech : self-censorship from Aristophanes to Hobbes / edited by Han Baltussen and Peter J. Davis.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Parrh�esia, free speech, and self-censorship / Han Baltussen and Peter J. Davis -- Self-censorship in Ancient Greek comedy / Andrew Hartwig Chapter -- Parrh�esia and censorship in the polis and the symposium : an exploration of Hyperides Against Philippides 3 / Lara O'Sullivan -- A bark worse than his bite? Diogenes the cynic and the politics of tolerance in Athens / Han Baltussen -- Censorship for the Roman stage? / Gesine Manuwald -- The poet as prince : author and authority under Augustus / Ioannis Ziogas -- "Quae quis fugit damnat" : outspoken silence in Seneca's epistles / Marcus Wilson -- Argo's Flavian politics : the workings of Power in Valerius Flaccus / Peter J. Davis -- Compulsory freedom : literature in Trajan's Rome / John Penwill -- Christian correspondences : the secrets of letter-writers and letter-bearers / Pauline Allen -- "Silence Is also annulment" : veiled and unveiled speech in seventh-century martyr commemorations / Bronwen Neil -- "Dixit quod nunquam vidit hereticos" : dissimulation and self-censorship in thirteenth-century Inquisitorial testimonies / Megan Cassidy-Welch -- Inquisition, art, and self-censorship in the early modern Spanish church, 1563-1834 / Fran�cois Soyer -- Thomas Hobbes and the problem of self-censorship / Jonathan Parkin.

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