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.
Priscilla Gontijo Leite is Adjunct Professor of Ancient History at the Department of History at the Federal University of Paraíba (João Pessoa/ Brazil). She has published numerous papers and books, for example Ética e retórica forense asebeia e hybris na caracterização dos adversários em Demóstenes (2013) and Religião e Jogos de Poder: o Contra Mídias de Demóstenes (2017).
Ian Worthington is Professor of Ancient History at Macquarie University, Sydney. He has published extensively on Greek History and Greek Oratory. His most recent publications are The Military Legacy of Alexander the Great: Lessons for the Information Age with Major Michael Ferguson (2024) and The Last Kings of Macedonia and the Triumph of Rome (2023).
