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Book SynopsisPersuasion 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.
Trade Review''This is a useful collection of papers, which deserves thorough study.'' Aggelos Kapellos, in ,The Classical Review 70.2 (2020)
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Editors and Contributors 1 The Hermeneutic Framework: Persuasion in Genres and Topics Sophia Papaioannou, Andreas Serafim and Kyriakos Demetriou Part 1: A War in Words: Dramatic Debates in Poetry 2 The Art of Persuasion in Seneca’s Agamemnon: the Debate between Clytemnestra and Her Nurse Andreas N. Michalopoulos 3 Epic Performance, Poetics and Persuasion in Ovid’s and Quintus’ Reconstructions of the Hoplōn Krisis Sophia Papaioannou Part 2: Narrative, Argument and the Failure of Rhetoric 4 Narrative in Forensic Oratory: Persuasion and Performance Eleni Volonaki 5 The Wrong Way to Listen to a Speech: Teutiaplus’ Speech and the Limits of Persuasion in Thucydides’ Mytilenaean Narrative Antonis Tsakmakis 6 The “Unpersuasive” Brasidas in Thucydides 4.85–87 Maria Kythreotou 7 The lex Oppia in Livy 34.1–7: Failed Persuasion and Decline Georgios Vassiliades 8 The Art of Ruling an Empire: Persuasion at Point Zero Michael Paschalis Part 3: Emotions 9 Feel between the Lines: Emotion, Language and Persuasion in Attic Forensic Oratory Andreas Serafim 10 The Use of Emotion as Persuasion in Cicero’s Letters to Atticus Gabriel Evangelou 11 Si rerum pondera minutissimis sententiis non fregisset: Protrepsis in Seneca’s De Ira Jennifer Devereaux Part 4: Gender 12 Women in the Dock: Body and Feminine Attire in Women’s Trials Konstantinos Kapparis 13 Rhetorical Masculinity in stasis: Hyper-andreia and Patriotism in Thucydides’ Histories and Plato’s Gorgias Jessica Evans 14 When Women Speak: the Persuasive Purpose of Direct Speech in Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita T. Davina McClain Part 5: Language, Style and Performance 15 Demosthenes 18 as Both Symbouleutic and Dicanic Speech: an Interpersonal Analysis Tzu-I Liao 16 Public and Private Persuasion in the Historical Works of Xenophon Roger Brock 17 The Language of Rhetorical Proof in Greek Historical Writers: Witness Terminology S. C. Todd 18 Poetry in the Attic Lawcourt: How to (Re)cite It and How to Recognize It Alessandro Vatri 19 Pliny’s Letters and the Art of Persuasion Margot Neger Part 6: The Rhetoric of Numbers 20 Pericles’ Rhetoric of Numbers Tazuko Angela van Berkel 21 Financial Rhetoric in Thucydides and Demosthenes Robert Sing Bibliography General Index Index Locorum
