after the death of Julius Caesar. He was considered too dangerous to be allowed to live. He might start criticizing the new regime that was coming to birth. The new regime, having got him and many others out of the way, was quick to declare that ‘freedom’ had been restored. It’s what every regime wants to tell its subjects, not least when it is in fact enslaving them. As well as their ‘rights’, the Corinthian teachers prided themselves on their ‘freedom’. This had several aspects. They were ‘free’