Ancient Art of Persuasion across Genres and Topics

Sophia Papaioannou is Professor of Latin Literature at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She has published several books and articles on Latin Epic, the Augustan literature, and Roman Comedy, and co-edited several volumes including The Theatre of Justice, with Andreas Serafim and Beatrice da Vela (Brill, 2017).Andreas Serafim, Ph.D. (2013), University College London, is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Classics at the University of Cyprus. He has published the monograph Attic Oratory and Performance, the volume The Theatre of Justice (co-editor with Sophia Papaioannou and Beatrice da Vela), and several journal articles and book chapters.Kyriakos Demetriou, Ph.D. (1993), University College London, is Professor of Political Thought at the University of Cyprus. He has published several studies in classical reception and the historiography of ideas with emphasis on Victorian Britain.The contributors are: Alessandro Vatri, Andreas N. Michalopoulos, Antonis Tsakmakis, Eleni Volonaki, Gabriel Evangelou, Georgios Vassiliades, Jennifer Devereaux, Jessica Evans, Margot Neger, Maria Kythreotou, Michael Paschalis, Robert Sing, Roger Brock, Stephen Todd, T. Davina McClain, Tazuko Angela van Berkel, Tzu-I Liao.

• AcknowledgementsEditors and Contributors1 The Hermeneutic Framework: Persuasion in Genres and TopicsSophia Papaioannou, Andreas Serafim and Kyriakos DemetriouPart 1: A War in Words: Dramatic Debates in Poetry2 The Art of Persuasion in Seneca’s Agamemnon: the Debate between Clytemnestra and Her NurseAndreas N. Michalopoulos3 Epic Performance, Poetics and Persuasion in Ovid’s and Quintus’ Reconstructions of the Hoplōn KrisisSophia PapaioannouPart 2: Narrative, Argument and the Failure of Rhetoric4 Narrative in Forensic Oratory: Persuasion and PerformanceEleni Volonaki5 The Wrong Way to Listen to a Speech: Teutiaplus’ Speech and the Limits of Persuasion in Thucydides’ Mytilenaean NarrativeAntonis Tsakmakis6 The “Unpersuasive” Brasidas in Thucydides 4.85–87Maria Kythreotou7 The lex Oppia in Livy 34.1–7: Failed Persuasion and DeclineGeorgios Vassiliades8 The Art of Ruling an Empire: Persuasion at Point ZeroMichael PaschalisPart 3: Emotions9 Feel between the Lines: Emotion, Language and Persuasion in Attic Forensic OratoryAndreas Serafim10 The Use of Emotion as Persuasion in Cicero’s Letters to AtticusGabriel Evangelou11 Si rerum pondera minutissimis sententiis non fregisset: Protrepsis in Seneca’s De IraJennifer DevereauxPart 4: Gender12 Women in the Dock: Body and Feminine Attire in Women’s TrialsKonstantinos Kapparis13 Rhetorical Masculinity in stasis: Hyper-andreia and Patriotism in Thucydides’ Histories and Plato’s GorgiasJessica Evans14 When Women Speak: the Persuasive Purpose of Direct Speech in Livy’s Ab Urbe ConditaT. Davina McClainPart 5: Language, Style and Performance15 Demosthenes 18 as Both Symbouleutic and Dicanic Speech: an Interpersonal AnalysisTzu-I Liao16 Public and Private Persuasion in the Historical Works of XenophonRoger Brock17 The Language of Rhetorical Proof in Greek Historical Writers: Witness TerminologyS. C. Todd18 Poetry in the Attic Lawcourt: How to (Re)cite It and How to Recognize ItAlessandro Vatri19 Pliny’s Letters and the Art of PersuasionMargot NegerPart 6: The Rhetoric of Numbers20 Pericles’ Rhetoric of NumbersTazuko Angela van Berkel21 Financial Rhetoric in Thucydides and DemosthenesRobert SingBibliographyGeneral IndexIndex Locorum

''This is a useful collection of papers, which deserves thorough study.'' Aggelos Kapellos, in ,The Classical Review 70.2 (2020)