Fearmongering in Greek and Roman Literature and Beyond

This volume provides, for the first time, a focused study of scare tactics and fearmongering in a broad range of Greek and Roman authors and genres, showing how alarmist tactics were used in both antiquity and today. Scare tactic rhetoric is a timely topic; fear in current politics can justify actions and decisions and be used to control what is debated in the public arena , with the truth often shaped and even removed from what was being said. The ancient world was no different. In this volume,