Rhetoric and Religion in Ancient Greece and Rome /

Rhetoric and Religion in Ancient Greece and Rome / / ed. by Sophia Papaioannou, Andreas Serafim, Kyriakos Demetriou.

It is perhaps a truism to note that ancient religion and rhetoric were closely intertwined in Greek and Roman antiquity. Religion is embedded in socio-political, legal and cultural institutions and structures, while also being influenced, or even determined, by them. Rhetoric is used to address the...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021
MitwirkendeR:
Degelmann, Christopher,
Demetriou, Kyriakos,
Filonik, Jakub,
Furley, William,
Harris, Edward M.,
Holland, Glenn,
Keramida, Despina,
Liotsakis, Vasileios,
Melidis, Konstantinos,
Mueller, Hans-Friedrich,
Papaioannou, Sophia,
Patzelt, Maik,
Sarischouli, Panagiota,
Serafim, Andreas,
Shannon-Henderson, Kelly E.,
HerausgeberIn:
Demetriou, Kyriakos,
Papaioannou, Sophia,
Serafim, Andreas,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes , 106
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Physical Description:1 online resource (IX, 304 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • List of Tables
  • Religion and Rhetoric in Ancient Graeco- Roman Texts and Contexts
  • Part I: Religion, Rhetoric and Law
  • Religion and the Rule of Law in the Greek Polis
  • Speaking for the Gods: Greek Cultic Regulations and their Silent Informants
  • Religious Arguments in Antiphon Rhetor
  • Part II: Magic and Religion
  • Performing the Rhetoric of Magic in Ovid’s Epistulae Heroidum and Metamorphoses 10
  • Transcultural Context in Graeco-Egyptian Magic: Two Case Studies from a Bilingual Theban Handbook
  • Part III: Religion and Rhetorical Performance
  • Trends in the Rhetoric of Prayer: The Actio of Prayer and the Eloquentia Popularis
  • Between Compassion and Aggression: The Rhetoric of Mourning in Republican and Early Imperial Rome
  • Argument and Performance in the Creation of a Rhetorical Matrix in Paul’s Congregations and Beyond
  • Part IV: The Rulers’ Religion
  • Beloved of the Gods, Son of the Gods, Rival of the Gods: Alexander and the Rhetoric of Religion in Plutarch, Arrian and Curtius Rufus
  • What Makes a Divus? The Prospective Rhetoric of Deification in Pliny’s Panegyricus
  • Tua Divinitas: Religious Self-fashioning in Tiberian Rome
  • Part V: Rhetoric and Religion in Verse Style
  • Biblical Epics: Intersection of Rhetoric and Religion in Greek and Latin Hexametric Paraphrases of Psalm 136 (137)
  • Notes on Editors and Contributors
  • General Index
  • Index Locorum

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