"Persuasion has long been one of the major fields of interest for researchers across a wide range of disciplines. The present volume aims to establish a framework to enhance the understanding of the features, manifestations and purposes of persuasion across all Greek and Roman genres and in various institutional contexts. The volume considers the impact of persuasion techniques upon the audience, and how precisely they help speakers/authors achieve their goals. It also explores the convergences and divergences in deploying persuasion strategies in different genres, such as historiography and oratory, and in a variety of topics. This discussion contributes towards a more complete understanding of persuasion that will help to advance knowledge of decision-making processes in varied institutional contexts in antiquity"--
Classicists establish a framework for understanding the features, manifestations, and purposes of persuasion across many Greek and Roman genres and in various institutional contexts in ancient Greece and Rome. They cover a war in words: dramatic debates in poetry; narrative, argument, and the failure of rhetoric; emotions; gender; language, style, and performance; and the rhetoric of numbers. Their topics include the art of persuasion in Seneca's Agamemnon: the debate between Clytemnestra and her nurse, the wrong way to listen to a speech: Teutiaplus' speech and the limits of persuasion in Thucydides' Mytilenaean narrative, women in the dock: body and feminine attire in women's trials, public and private persuasion in the historical works of Xenophon, and financial rhetoric in Thucydides and Demosthenes. Annotation ©2020 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
This is an original collection of essays that contribute to a developing appreciation of persuasion across ancient genres (mainly oratory, historiography, poetry) and a wide diversity of interdisciplinary topics (performance, language, style, emotions, gender, argumentation and narrative, politics).
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''This is a useful collection of papers, which deserves thorough study.'' Aggelos Kapellos, in ,The Classical Review 70.2 (2020)
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1 The Hermeneutic Framework: Persuasion in Genres and Topics |
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PART 1 A War in Words: Dramatic Debates in Poetry |
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2 The Art of Persuasion in Seneca's Agamemnon: The Debate between Clytemnestra and Her Nurse |
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3 Epic Performance, Poetics and Persuasion in Ovid's and Quintus' Reconstructions of the Hoplon krisis |
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PART 2 Narrative, Argument and the Failure of Rhetoric |
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4 Narrative in Forensic Oratory: Persuasion and Performance |
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5 The Wrong Way to Listen to a Speech: Teutiaplus' Speech and the Limits of Persuasion in Thucydides' Mytilenaean Narrative |
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6 The "Unpersuasive" Brasidas in Thucydides 4.85-87 |
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7 The lex Oppia in Livy 34.1-7: Failed Persuasion and Decline |
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8 The Art of Ruling an Empire: Persuasion at Point Zero |
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9 Feel between the Lines: Emotion, Language and Persuasion in Attic Forensic Oratory |
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10 The Use of Emotion as Persuasion in Cicero's Letters to Atticus |
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11 Si rerum pondera minutissimis sententus non fregisset: Protrepsis in Seneca's De ira |
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12 Women in the Dock: Body and Feminine Attire in Women's Trials |
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13 Rhetorical Masculinity in stasis: Hyper-andreia and Patriotism in Thucydides' Histories and Plato's Gorgias |
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14 When Women Speak: The Persuasive Purpose of Direct Speech in Livy's Ab urbe condita |
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PART 5 Language, Style and Performance |
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15 Demosthenes 18 as Both Symbouleutic and Dicanic Speech: An Interpersonal Analysis |
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16 Public and Private Persuasion in the Historical Works of Xenophon |
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17 The Language of Rhetorical Proof in Greek Historical Writers: Witness Terminology |
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18 Poetry in the Attic Lawcourt: How to (Re)cite It and How to Recognize It |
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299 | (20) |
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19 Pliny's Letters and the Art of Persuasion |
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PART 6 The Rhetoric of Numbers |
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20 Pericles' Rhetoric of Numbers |
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21 Financial Rhetoric in Thucydides and Demosthenes |
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| Bibliography |
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| Index Locorum |
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Sophia Papaioannou is Professor of Latin Literature at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She has published several books and articles on Latin Epic, the Augustan literature, and Roman Comedy, and co-edited several volumes including The Theatre of Justice, with Andreas Serafim and Beatrice da Vela (Brill, 2017).
Andreas Serafim, Ph.D. (2013), University College London, is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Classics at the University of Cyprus. He has published the monograph Attic Oratory and Performance, the volume The Theatre of Justice (co-editor with Sophia Papaioannou and Beatrice da Vela), and several journal articles and book chapters.
Kyriakos Demetriou, Ph.D. (1993), University College London, is Professor of Political Thought at the University of Cyprus. He has published several studies in classical reception and the historiography of ideas with emphasis on Victorian Britain.
The contributors are: Alessandro Vatri, Andreas N. Michalopoulos, Antonis Tsakmakis, Eleni Volonaki, Gabriel Evangelou, Georgios Vassiliades, Jennifer Devereaux, Jessica Evans, Margot Neger, Maria Kythreotou, Michael Paschalis, Robert Sing, Roger Brock, Stephen Todd, T. Davina McClain, Tazuko Angela van Berkel, Tzu-I Liao.
