The Art of Veiled Speech

Han Baltussen is Hughes Professor of Classics at the University of Adelaide and editor of Greek and Roman Consolations: Eight Studies of a Tradition and Its Afterlife. Peter J. Davis is a visiting research fellow at the University of Adelaide.

Han Baltussen is Hughes Professor of Classics at the University of Adelaide and editor of Greek and Roman Consolations: Eight Studies of a Tradition and Its Afterlife. Peter J. Davis is a visiting research fellow at the University of Adelaide.

Chapter 1. Parrhêsia, Free Speech, and Self-Censorship—Han Baltussen and Peter J. DavisChapter 2. Self-Censorship in Ancient Greek Comedy—Andrew HartwigChapter 3. Parrhêsia and Censorship in the Polis and the Symposium: An Exploration of Hyperides Against Philippides 3—Lara O'SullivanChapter 4. A Bark Worse Than His Bite? Diogenes the Cynic and the Politics of Tolerance in Athens—Han BaltussenChapter 5. Censorship for the Roman Stage?—Gesine ManuwaldChapter 6. The Poet as Prince: Author and Authority Under Augustus—Ioannis ZiogasChapter 7. "Quae quis fugit damnat": Outspoken Silence in Seneca's Epistles—Marcus WilsonChapter 8. Argo's Flavian Politics: The Workings of Power in Valerius Flaccus—Peter J. DavisChapter 9. Compulsory Freedom: Literature in Trajan's Rome—John PenwillChapter 10. Christian Correspondences: The Secrets of Letter-Writers and Letter-Bearers—Pauline AllenChapter 11. "Silence Is Also Annulment": Veiled and Unveiled Speech in Seventh-Century Martyr Commemorations—Bronwen NeilChapter 12. "Dixit quod nunquam vidit hereticos": Dissimulation and Self-Censorship in Thirteenth-Century Inquisitorial Testimonies—Megan Cassidy-WelchChapter 13. Inquisition, Art, and Self-Censorship in the Early Modern Spanish Church, 1563-1834—François SoyerChapter 14. Thomas Hobbes and the Problem of Self-Censorship—Jonathan ParkinEpilogue—Han Baltussen and Peter J. DavisNotesIndexList of ContributorsAcknowledgments