Sycophancy

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Botticelli's illustration of Dante's Inferno shows insincere flatterers grovelling in excrement in the second pit of the eighth circle.[1]

Sycophancy[2] is obsequious flattery.

Alternative phrases are often used such as:

See also

References

  1. ^ Italian culture, 15, American Association of University Professors of Italian, 1997, p. 80 
  2. ^ Alphons Silbermann, translator Ladislaus Loeb (2000), Grovelling and other vices: the sociology of sycophancy, Continuum International Publishing Group, ISBN 978-0-485-11544-4 [clarification needed]

Further reading

  • Clark, L. P. (1934). "A Psychological Study of Sycophancy". Psychoanalytic Review 21: 15–39. 
  • Lofberg, John Oscar (2008) [1917]. Sycophancy in Athens (Reprint ed.). Whitefish: Kessinger. ISBN 1-4304-9346-1. 

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