The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature /

The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature / / ed. by Andreas N. Michalopoulos, Andreas Serafim, Flaminia Beneventano della Corte, Alessandro Vatri.

This volume, comprising 24 essays, aims to contribute to a developing appreciation of the capacity of rhetoric to reinforce affiliation or disaffiliation to groups. To this end, the essays span a variety of ancient literary genres (i.e. oratory, historical and technical prose, drama and poetry) and...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021
MitwirkendeR:
Beneventano della Corte, Flaminia,
Breij, Bé,
Edwards, Michael J.,
Ferrucci, Stefano,
Fisher, Nick,
Hardie, Philip,
Konstantakos, Ioannis,
Kremmydas, Christos,
Liotsakis, Vasileios,
McClain, T. Davina,
Michalopoulos, Andreas N.,
Mollea, Simone,
Paraskeviotis, George,
Paschalis, Michael,
Romani Mistretta, Marco,
Sanders, Ed,
Serafim, Andreas,
Spatharas, Dimos,
Vatri, Alessandro,
Volonaki, Eleni,
HerausgeberIn:
Beneventano della Corte, Flaminia,
Michalopoulos, Andreas N.,
Serafim, Andreas,
Vatri, Alessandro,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes , 108
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XI, 450 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Tables
  • Unity and Division in Ancient Literature: Current Perspectives and Further Research
  • Part I: Authors, Speakers and Audience
  • The Rhetoric of (Dis)Unity in the Attic Orators
  • Creating a Cultural Community: Aeschines and Demosthenes
  • “I, He, We, You, They”: Addresses to the Audience as a Means of Unity/Division in Attic Forensic Oratory
  • Rhetoric of Disunity Through Arousal of Hostile Emotions in Eisangelia Cases
  • “It Takes More Love to Kill a Son than to Vindicate Him”: How Maxims May Contribute to Affiliation
  • Part II: Emotions
  • Projective Uses of Emotions, Out-groups and Personal Characterization: The Case of Against Aristogeiton I (Dem. 25)
  • Xenophon on Strategies to Maintain Unity in Armies under Stress
  • Part III: Drama and Poetry
  • Divided Audiences and How to Win Them Over: The Case of Aristophanes’ Acharnians
  • Fighting Against an Intruder: A Comparative Reading of the Speeches of Pentheus (3.531–563) and Niobe (6.170–202) in Ovid’s Metamorphoses
  • Humorous Unity and Disunity between the Characters in Vergil’s Eclogues 1 and 2
  • Part IV: Historical and Technical Prose
  • Disunity and the Macedonians in the Literature of Alexander: Plutarch, Arrian and Curtius Rufus
  • Divisive Scholarship: Affiliation Dynamics in Ancient Greek Literary Criticism
  • The Rhetoric of Homonoia in Dio Chrysostom’s Civic Orations
  • Finding Unity through Knowledge: Narrative and Identity-Building in Greek Technical Prose
  • Part V: Gender and the Construction of Identity
  • Vanishing Mothers. The (De)construction of Personal Identity in Attic Forensic Speeches
  • Cato vs Valerius/Men vs Women: Rhetorical Strategies in The Oppian Law Debate in Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita
  • Humanitas: A Double-edged Sword in Apuleius the Orator?
  • Part VI: Religious Discourse
  • Rhetoric of the Mortals, Rhetoric of the Gods. Deigmata, Phasmata and the Construction of Evidence
  • Ciceronian vs Socratic Dialogue in the De divinatione
  • Unity and Disunity in Paulinus of Nola Poem 24
  • Note on Editors and Contributors
  • General Index
  • Index Locorum

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