PrefaceIntroductionAbbreviationsList of ContributorsI. The Graeco-Hellenistic World1. Jonathan Hall , Autochthonous Autocrats: The tyranny of the Athenian democracy2. Peter Londey , Phokian Desperation: Private and public in the outbreak of the 3rd Sacred War3. Brian Bosworth , Truth and falsehood in early Hellenistic propaganda4. Jonathan Prag , Tyrannizing Sicily: The despots who cried 'Carthage'II. Republican Rome 5. Francisco Pina Polo , Frigidus rumor: The creation of a (negative) public image in Rome6.

Christopher Dart , Deceit and the struggle for Roman franchise in Italy7. Frédéric Hurlet , Pouvoirs extraordinaires et tromperie. La tentation de la monarchie à la fin de la République romaine (82-44 av. J.-C.)III. Augustan dissimulation8. Frederik Vervaet , Arrogating despotic power through deceit: the Pompeian model for Augustan dissimulatio9.

John Rich , Deception, lies, and economy with the truth: Augustus and the establishment of the principateIV. Early imperial literature10. Andrew Turner , Lucan's Cleopatra11. John Penwill , Damn with great praise? The imperial encomia of Lucan and Silius12. Enrica Sciarrino , What 'lies' behind Phaedrus' fables?13. Parshia Lee-Stecum , Mendacia maiorum: tales of deceit in pre-Republican Rome14. Cristina Calhoon, Is there an antidote to Caesar? The despot as uenenum and ueneficus15. K.

O. Chong-Gossard , Who slept with whom in the Roman empire? Women, sex, and scandal in Suetonius' Lives of the CaesarsV. The later empire16. Martijn Icks , From priest to emperor to priest-emperor: The failed legitimation of Elagabalus17. Bruno Bleckmann , Constantinus tyrannus: Das negative Konstantinsbild in der paganen Historiographie und seine Nuancen18. Amelia Brown , Justinian, Procopius, and deception: Literary lies, imperial politics, and the archaeology of sixth-century GreeceVI. The broader context19. Ron Ridley , Despotism and Deceit: Yes, but what happened before and after?BibliographyIndex.