The Art of Veiled Speech : Self-Censorship from Aristophanes to Hobbes.

Cover -- Contents -- Chapter 1. Parrhêsia, Free Speech, and Self-Censorship -- Chapter 2. Self-Censorship in Ancient Greek Comedy -- Chapter 3. Parrhêsia and Censorship in the Polis and the Symposium: An Exploration of Hyperides Against Philippides 3 -- Chapter 4. A Bark Worse Than His Bite? Diogenes the Cynic and the Politics of Tolerance in Athens -- Chapter 5. Censorship for the Roman Stage? -- Chapter 6. The Poet as Prince: Author and Authority Under Augustus -- Chapter 7. "Quae quis fugit damnat": Outspoken Silence in Seneca's Epistles -- Chapter 8. Argo's Flavian Politics: The Workings of Power in Valerius Flaccus -- Chapter 9. Compulsory Freedom: Literature in Trajan's Rome -- Chapter 10. Christian Correspondences: The Secrets of Letter-Writers and Letter-Bearers -- Chapter 11. "Silence Is Also Annulment": Veiled and Unveiled Speech in Seventh-Century Martyr Commemorations -- Chapter 12. "Dixit quod nunquam vidit hereticos": Dissimulation and Self-Censorship in Thirteenth-Century Inquisitorial Testimonies -- Chapter 13. Inquisition, Art, and Self-Censorship in the Early Modern Spanish Church, 1563-1834 -- Chapter 14. Thomas Hobbes and the Problem of Self-Censorship -- Epilogue -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z -- Acknowledgments.

The Art of Veiled Speech offers new insights into the historical origins of self-censorship used to temper controversial views, revealing that the human voice cannot easily be silenced.

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