{"product_id":"the-ancient-art-of-persuasion-across-genres-and-topics-9789004412545","title":"The Ancient Art of Persuasion across Genres and Topics","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePersuasion 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''This is a useful collection of papers, which deserves thorough study.'' Aggelos Kapellos, in ,The Classical Review 70.2 (2020)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements  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","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210785120599,"sku":"9789004412545","price":143.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-ancient-art-of-persuasion-across-genres-and-topics-9789004412545","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}