books.google.com - Graeco-Roman literary works, historiography, and even the reporting of rumours were couched as if they came in response to an insatiable desire by ordinary citizen to know everything about the lives of their leaders, and to hold them to account, at some level, for their abuse of constitutional powers...http://books.google.com/books/about/Private_and_Public_Lies.html?id=vjC8ms0b1uAC&utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePrivate and Public Lies
