The Ancient Art of Persuasion across Genres and Topics

Author:   Sophia Papaioannou ,  Andreas Serafim ,  Kyriakos N. Demetriou
Publisher:   Brill
Volume:   12
ISBN:  

9789004412545


Pages:   410
Publication Date:   14 November 2019
Format:   Hardback
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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.

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Author:   Sophia Papaioannou ,  Andreas Serafim ,  Kyriakos N. Demetriou
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   12
Weight:   0.806kg
ISBN:  

9789004412545


ISBN 10:   9004412549
Pages:   410
Publication Date:   14 November 2019
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Acknowledgements Editors and Contributors 1 The Hermeneutic Framework: Persuasion in Genres and Topics  Sophia Papaioannou, Andreas Serafim and Kyriakos Demetriou Part 1: A War in Words: Dramatic Debates in Poetry 2 The Art of Persuasion in Seneca’s Agamemnon: the Debate between Clytemnestra and Her Nurse  Andreas N. Michalopoulos 3 Epic Performance, Poetics and Persuasion in Ovid’s and Quintus’ Reconstructions of the Hoplōn Krisis  Sophia Papaioannou Part 2: Narrative, Argument and the Failure of Rhetoric 4 Narrative in Forensic Oratory: Persuasion and Performance  Eleni Volonaki 5 The Wrong Way to Listen to a Speech: Teutiaplus’ Speech and the Limits of Persuasion in Thucydides’ Mytilenaean Narrative  Antonis Tsakmakis 6 The “Unpersuasive” Brasidas in Thucydides 4.85–87  Maria Kythreotou 7 The lex Oppia in Livy 34.1–7: Failed Persuasion and Decline  Georgios Vassiliades 8 The Art of Ruling an Empire: Persuasion at Point Zero  Michael Paschalis Part 3: Emotions 9 Feel between the Lines: Emotion, Language and Persuasion in Attic Forensic Oratory  Andreas Serafim 10 The Use of Emotion as Persuasion in Cicero’s Letters to Atticus  Gabriel Evangelou 11 Si rerum pondera minutissimis sententiis non fregisset: Protrepsis in Seneca’s De Ira  Jennifer Devereaux Part 4: Gender 12 Women in the Dock: Body and Feminine Attire in Women’s Trials  Konstantinos Kapparis 13 Rhetorical Masculinity in stasis: Hyper-andreia and Patriotism in Thucydides’ Histories and Plato’s Gorgias  Jessica Evans 14 When Women Speak: the Persuasive Purpose of Direct Speech in Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita  T. Davina McClain Part 5: Language, Style and Performance 15 Demosthenes 18 as Both Symbouleutic and Dicanic Speech: an Interpersonal Analysis  Tzu-I Liao 16 Public and Private Persuasion in the Historical Works of Xenophon  Roger Brock 17 The Language of Rhetorical Proof in Greek Historical Writers: Witness Terminology  S. C. Todd 18 Poetry in the Attic Lawcourt: How to (Re)cite It and How to Recognize It  Alessandro Vatri 19 Pliny’s Letters and the Art of Persuasion  Margot Neger Part 6: The Rhetoric of Numbers 20 Pericles’ Rhetoric of Numbers  Tazuko Angela van Berkel 21 Financial Rhetoric in Thucydides and Demosthenes  Robert Sing Bibliography General Index Index Locorum

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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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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.

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