This volume, examining the reception of ancient rhetoric, aims to demonstrate that the past is always part of the present: in the ways in which decisions about crucial political, social and economic matters have been made historically; or in organic interaction with literature, philosophy and culture at the core of the foundation principles of Western thought and values. Analysis is meant to cover the broadest possible spectrum of considerations that focus on the totality of rhetorical species (i.e. forensic, deliberative and epideictic) as they are applied to diversified topics (including, but not limited to, language, science, religion, literature, theatre and other cultural processes (e.g. athletics), politics and leadership, pedagogy and gender studies) and cross-cultural, geographical and temporal contexts.
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1 Making the Past Present: Ancient Rhetoric across the Ages, Cultures, and Topics |
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2 The Reception of Greek Rhetoric in the Late Antique East |
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3 The Reception and Transformation of Rhetoric in Germany during the Eighteenth Century |
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52 | (23) |
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4 The Beginning of Rhetoric among Serbs: Pioneering Manual in Eloquence by Avram Mrazovic from 1821 |
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75 | (24) |
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SECTION 1 The Genres, Techniques, and Features of Rhetoric |
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5 The Persuasive Potential of Epideictic Rhetoric: Ancient Past and Contemporary Reception |
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99 | (17) |
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6 The Reception of Paradeigma in Late Greek Rhetorical Theory |
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116 | (19) |
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M. Carmen Encinas Reguero |
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7 Reading Pliny's Panegyricus within the Context of Late Antiquity and the Early Modern Period |
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8 Psogos: The Rhetoric of Invective in 4th Century CE Imperial Speeches |
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170 | (22) |
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9 Aristotle's Rhetoric in Italy (1250--1400): The Latin and the Vernacular Traditions |
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192 | (31) |
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10 Dionysius Longinus, On Sublimity |
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11 Ancient Rhetoric and the Early "Italian" Commentaries on the Poetria nova |
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247 | (22) |
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12 The Reception of Quintilian's Theory of Gesture: Rhetorical Elements in Pantomime Acting |
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269 | (22) |
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SECTION 2 Literature, Theatre, and Culture |
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13 Rhetoric, the Dorian Hexapolis, and Knidos: A Study of the Reception of Ancient Rhetoric in the Greek East and Its Impact on the Second Sophistic |
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291 | (14) |
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14 "A Feast of Languages": William Shakespeare's Reception of Ancient Rhetoric |
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305 | (26) |
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15 Ancient Rhetoric on the Silver Screen: Performing Agones in Michael Cacoyannis' Euripidean Trilogy |
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331 | (25) |
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16 Sport and Peace: Panhellenic Myth-Making and the Modem Olympics |
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356 | (25) |
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SECTION 3 Politics, Leadership, and Public Speaking |
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17 The Demosthenic Model of Leadership Revisited by Libanius: The Revival of Philip in the Funeral Oration over Julian |
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381 | (20) |
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18 Rhetoric, Aesthetics, and the State in Renaissance Political Thought |
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19 The Last Orator: Rufus Choate and the End of Classical Eloquence in America |
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430 | (24) |
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20 Metaphors in Rhetoric: From Ancient Greek to 21st-century Politics |
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SECTION 4 Pedagogy and Gender |
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21 The Reception of Ancient Rhetoric in Modern Argumentation Theory and Pedagogy |
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489 | (25) |
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22 Ancient Forensic Rhetoric in a Modern Classroom |
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514 | (13) |
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23 The Rhetoric of Gender in the Heroides of the French Renaissance: Revisiting Female Exempla |
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24 Christians, Ottomans, and Emperors: Demosthenes in European Politics |
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567 | (21) |
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25 Augustine's Christian Eloquence |
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26 Rhetoric of Mathematics: The Case of Diophantus of Alexandria |
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27 Philosophia naturalis: Ancient Rhetoric and Early Modern Science |
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| General Index |
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Sophia Papaioannou, Ph.D. (1998), University of Texas at Austin, 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) and The Ancient Art of Persuasion across Genres and Topics, with Andreas Serafim and Kyriakos Demetriou (Brill, 2019).
Andreas Serafim, Ph.D. (2013), University College London, is a Research Fellow at the Research Centre for Greek and Latin Literature of the Academy of Athens. He has published several books and articles on ancient rhetoric and interdisciplinary topics, and co-edited several volumes, including The Theatre of Justice, with Sophia Papaioannou and Beatrice da Vela (Brill, 2017) and The Ancient Art of Persuasion across Genres and Topics, with Sophia Papaioannou and Kyriakos Demetriou (Brill, 2019).
Michael Edwards, Ph.D., is an Honorary Research Fellow at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, after being Professor of Classics in the Universities of London, Wales and Roehampton, all in the UK. He was Director of the Institute of Classical Studies, UK, and President of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric. He has published extensively on the Attic orators and is currently preparing an Oxford Classical Text of Isaeus.
Contributors are: Stella Alekou, Dragutin Avramovi, Sima Avramovi, Anastasia Bakogianni, Jacques A. Bromberg, Jean Christianidis, Styliani Chrysikou, Chrysanthi Demetriou, William J. Dominik, M. Carmen Encinas Reguero, Richard Leo Enos, James M. Farrell, Jakub Filonik, Malcolm Heath, Christian Kock, Domenico Losappio, Johanna Luggin, Michael J. MacDonald, Fiammetta Papi, Alex Petkas, Takis Poulakos, Alberto J. Quiroga Puertas, Hanne Roer, Michalis Sialaros, Stacey Peter, Gerhard Thür, Dietmar Till, Maria S. Youni.
