The Ancient Art of Persuasion across Genres and Topics (International Studies in the History of Rhetoric)

Papaioannou, Sophia (EDT)/ Serafim, Andreas (EDT)/ Demetriou, Kyriakos N. (EDT)

Brill（2019/11発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 410 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004412545

Full Description

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.

Contents

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