The ancient art of persuasion across genres and topics / / edited by Sophia Papaioannou, Andreas Serafim, Kyriakos Demetriou.

• Superior document: International Studies in the History of Rhetoric; volume 12
• TeilnehmendeR: Dēmētriou, Kyriakos N.,; Papaioannou, Sophia,; Serafim, Andreas,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden Boston : : BRILL,, 2020.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: International Studies in the History of Rhetoric; volume 12.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (424 pages).

"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".

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.