The ancient art of persuasion across genres and topics /

The ancient art of persuasion across genres and topics /

"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 var...

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Other Authors: Dēmētriou, Kyriakos N. (Editor), Papaioannou, Sophia (Editor), Serafim, Andreas (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden Boston : BRILL, 2020.

Series: International Studies in the History of Rhetoric; volume 12.
Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2020, ISBN: 9789004393820.

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Persuasion (Rhetoric) in literature.
Persuasion (Rhetoric) > History > To 1500.
Rhetoric, Ancient.

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Call Number: PA3038 .A525 2020

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Table of Contents:
  • The hermeneutic framework : persuasion in genres and topics / Sophia Papaioannou, Andreas Serafim and Kyriakos Demetriou
  • The art of persuasion in Seneca's Agamemnon : the debate between Clytemnestra and her nurse / Andreas N. Michalopoulos
  • Epic performance, poetics and persuasion in Ovid's and Quintus' reconstructions of the Hoplōn Krisis / Sophia Papaioannou
  • Narrative in forensic oratory : persuasion and performance / Eleni Volonaki
  • The wrong way to listen to a speech : Teutiaplus' speech and the limits of persuasion in Thucydides' Mytilenaean narrative / Antonis Tsakmakis
  • The "unpersuasive" Brasidas in Thucydides 4.85-87 / Maria Kythreotou
  • The lex Oppia in Livy 34.1-7 : failed persuasion and decline / Georgios Vassiliades
  • The art of ruling an empire : persuasion at point zero / Michael Paschalis
  • Feel between the lines : emotion, language and persuasion in attic forensic oratory / Andreas Serafim
  • The use of emotion as persuasion in Cicero's letters to Atticus / Gabriel Evangelou
  • Si rerum pondera minutissimis sententiis non fregisset : protrepsis in Seneca's De Ira / Jennifer Devereaux
  • Women in the dock : body and feminine attire in women's trials / Konstantinos Kapparis
  • Rhetorical masculinity in stasis : hyper-andreia and patriotism in Thucydides' Histories and Plato's Gorgias / Jessica Evans
  • When women speak : the persuasive purpose of direct speech in Livy's Ab Urbe Condita / T. Davina McClain
  • Demosthenes 18 as both symbouleutic and dicanic speech : an interpersonal analysis / Tzu-I Liao
  • Public and private persuasion in the historical works of Xenophon / Roger Brock
  • The language of rhetorical proof in Greek historical writers : witness terminology / S.C. Todd
  • Poetry in the attic lawcourt : how to (re)cite it and how to recognize it / Alessandro Vatri
  • Pliny's letters and the art of persuasion / Margot Neger
  • Pericles' rhetoric of numbers / Tazuko Angela van Berkel
  • Financial rhetoric in Thucydides and Demosthenes / Robert Sing.