Brill's Companion to the Reception of Ancient Rhetoric /

Brill's Companion to the Reception of Ancient Rhetoric /

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 cultur...

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Other Authors: Papaioannou, Sophia (Editor), Serafim, Andreas (Editor), Edwards, Michael (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden; Boston : Brill, [2021]

Series: Brill's Companions to Classical Reception ; 23.
Brill's Companions in Classical Studies Online VI.

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Civilization, Classical > Influence.
Rhetoric, Ancient.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary material
  • Copyright page
  • Acknowledgements
  • Note on Editors and Contributors
  • Chapter 1 Making the Past Present: Ancient Rhetoric across the Ages, Cultures, and Topics /
  • Sophia Papaioannou , Andreas Serafim , and Michael Edwards
  • Chapter 2 The Reception of Greek Rhetoric in the Late Antique East /
  • Alex Petkas
  • Chapter 3 The Reception and Transformation of Rhetoric in Germany during the Eighteenth Century /
  • Dietmar Till
  • Chapter 4 The Beginning of Rhetoric among Serbs: Pioneering Manual in Eloquence by Avram Mrazović from 1821 /
  • Dragutin Avramović
  • Chapter 5 The Persuasive Potential of Epideictic Rhetoric: Ancient Past and Contemporary Reception /
  • Takis Poulakos
  • Chapter 6 The Reception of Paradeigma in Late Greek Rhetorical Theory /
  • M. Carmen Encinas Reguero
  • Chapter 7 Reading Pliny's Panegyricus within the Context of Late Antiquity and the Early Modern Period /
  • William J. Dominik
  • Chapter 8 Psogos : The Rhetoric of Invective in 4th Century CE Imperial Speeches /
  • Alberto J. Quiroga Puertas
  • Chapter 9 Aristotle's Rhetoric in Italy (1250-1400): The Latin and the Vernacular Traditions /
  • Fiammetta Papi
  • Chapter 10 Dionysius Longinus, On Sublimity /
  • Malcolm Heath
  • Chapter 11 Ancient Rhetoric and the Early "Italian" Commentaries on the Poetria nova /
  • Domenico Losappio
  • Chapter 12 The Reception of Quintilian's Theory of Gesture: Rhetorical Elements in Pantomime Acting /
  • Chrysanthi Demetriou
  • Chapter 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 /
  • Richard Leo Enos
  • Chapter 14 "A Feast of Languages": William Shakespeare's Reception of Ancient Rhetoric /
  • Michael J. MacDonald
  • Chapter 15 Ancient Rhetoric on the Silver Screen: Performing Agōnes in Michael Cacoyannis' Euripidean Trilogy /
  • Anastasia Bakogianni
  • Chapter 16 Sport and Peace: Panhellenic Myth-Making and the Modern Olympics /
  • Jacques A. Bromberg
  • Chapter 17 The Demosthenic Model of Leadership Revisited by Libanius: The Revival of Philip in the Funeral Oration over Julian /
  • Styliani Chrysikou
  • Chapter 18 Rhetoric, Aesthetics, and the State in Renaissance Political Thought /
  • Peter Stacey
  • Chapter 19 The Last Orator: Rufus Choate and the End of Classical Eloquence in America /
  • James M. Farrell
  • Chapter 20 Metaphors in Rhetoric: From Ancient Greek to 21st-Century Politics /
  • Jakub Filonik
  • Chapter 21 The Reception of Ancient Rhetoric in Modern Argumentation Theory and Pedagogy /
  • Christian Kock
  • Chapter 22 Ancient Forensic Rhetoric in a Modern Classroom /
  • Sima Avramović and Gerhard Thür
  • Chapter 23 The Rhetoric of Gender in the Heroides of the French Renaissance: Revisiting Female Exempla /
  • Stella Alekou
  • Chapter 24 Christians, Ottomans, and Emperors: Demosthenes in European Politics /
  • Maria S. Youni
  • Chapter 25 Augustine's Christian Eloquence /
  • Hanne Roer
  • Chapter 26 Rhetoric of Mathematics: The Case of Diophantus of Alexandria /
  • Jean Christianidis and Michalis Sialaros
  • Chapter 27 Philosophia naturalis : Ancient Rhetoric and Early Modern Science /
  • Johanna Luggin
  • General Index
  • Index Locorum.