Brill's Companion to the Reception of Ancient Rhetoric / / edited by Sophia Papaioannou, Andreas Serafim, Michael Edwards.

This volume, examining the reception of ancient rhetoric, aims to demonstrate that the past is always part of the present: in the ways in which decisions about crucial political, social and economic matters have been made historically; or in organic interaction with literature, philosophy and cultur...

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Superior document:Brill's companions to classical reception ; Volume 23
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden : : BRILL,, 2021.
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Brill's companions to classical reception ; Volume 23.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 685 pages) :; illustrations, color maps.
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Table of Contents:
  • Making the past present : ancient rhetoric across the ages, cultures and topics / Sophia Papaioannou, Andreas Serafim, and Michael Edwards Survey chapters. The reception of Greek rhetoric in the late antique East / Alex Petkas The reception and transformation of rhetoric in Germany during the eighteenth century / Dietmar Till Thematic chapters. The genres, techniques, and features of rhetoric. The beginning of rhetoric among Serbs : pioneering manual in eloquence by Avram Mrazović from 1821 / Dragutin Avramovic The persuasive potential of epideictic rhetoric : ancient past and contemporary reception / Takis Poulakos The reception of Paradeigma in late Greek rhetorical theory / M. Carmen Encinas Reguero Reading Pliny's Panegyricus within the context of late antiquity and the early modern period / William J. Dominik Psogos : the rhetoric of invective in 4th century CE imperial speeches / Alberto J. Quiroga Puertas Aristotle's rhetoric in Italy (1250-1400) : the Latin and the vernacular traditions / Fiammetta Papi Dionysius Longinus, on sublimity / Malcolm Heath Ancient rhetoric and the early "Italian" commentaries on the Poetria nova / Domenico Losappio The reception of Quintilian's theory of gesture : rhetorical elements in pantomime acting / Chrysanthi Demetriou Literature, theatre, and culture. Rhetoric, the Dorian Hexapolis, and Knidos : a study of reception of ancient rhetoric in the Greek East and its impact on the second Sophistic / Richard Leo Enos "A feast of languages" : William Shakespeare's reception of ancient rhetoric / Michael J. MacDonald Ancient rhetoric on the silver screen : performing Agōnes in Michael Cacoyannis's Euripidean trilogy / Anastasia Bakogianni Sport and peace : Panhellenic myth-making and the modern Olympics / Jacques A. Bromberg Politics, leadership and public speaking. The Demosthenic model of leadership revisited by Libanius : the revival of Philip in the funeral oration over Julian / Styliani Chrysikou Rhetoric, aesthetics, and the state in renaissance political thought / Peter Stacey The last orator : Rufus Choate and the end of Classical eloquence in America / James M. Farrell Metaphors in rhetoric : from Ancient Greek to 21st-century politics / Jakub Filonik Pedagogy and gender. The reception of ancient rhetoric in modern argumentation theory and pedagogy / Christian Kock Ancient forensic rhetoric in a modern classroom / Sima Avramovic and Gerhard Thür The rhetoric of gender in the Heroides of the French Renaissance : revisiting female exempla / Stella Alekou - Religion. Christians, Ottomans, and emperors : Demosthenes in European politics / Maria S. Youni Augustine's Christian eloquence / Hanne Roer - Science. Rhetoric of mathematics : the case of Diophantus of Alexandria / Jean Christianidis and Michalis Sialaros Philosophia naturalis : ancient rhetoric and early modern science / Johanna Luggin.