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 var...

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.