Fearmongering in Greek and Roman Literature and Beyond

Priscilla Gontijo Leite is Adjunct Professor of Ancient History at the Department of History at the Federal University of Paraíba (João Pessoa/ Brazil). She has published numerous papers and books, for example Ética e retórica forense asebeia e hybris na caracterização dos adversários em Demóstenes (2013) and Religião e Jogos de Poder: o Contra Mídias de Demóstenes (2017).Ian Worthington is Professor of Ancient History at Macquarie University, Sydney. He has published extensively on Greek History and Greek Oratory. His most recent publications are The Military Legacy of Alexander the Great: Lessons for the Information Age with Major Michael Ferguson (2024) and The Last Kings of Macedonia and the Triumph of Rome (2023).

• General Introduction Maria Patera1. Introducing Fear1. Aristotle on the Nature of Fear and its Persuasive UseJamie Dow and Alba Curry2. Oratory2. Forensic Fearmongering: Making a Lasting Impression on the JudgesMichael J. Edwards3. The Scarcity Scare: The Discourse of Limited Resources in Athenian OratoryJakub Filonik4. Fearmongering in Lysias: A Glimpse into his CorpusEnrico Medda5. Fearmongering in Isocrates: The Areopagiticus and the Call for a Restored PoliteiaTiciano Curvelo Estrela de Lacerda6. Dangling Fears: Scare Tactics in the Speeches of Aeschines Daniel Bajnok7. Rumour and Scare Tactics in Demosthenes’ Public SpeechesPriscilla Gontijo Leite8. Marcus Antonius: The Roman Philip? Demosthenes’ Fearful Influence on CiceroStephen Clarke9. Cross-Examination and Scare Tactic Rhetoric in Cicero’s In VatiniumGilson Charles dos Santos10. The Spectrum of Anxiety in Dio ChrysostomN. Bryant Kirkland11. Scare Tactics in Pre-Battle ExhortationsJuan Carlos Iglesias Zoido3. Historiography12. The Rhetoric of Fear in HerodotusVasiliki Zali-Schiel13. Fear and Deliberation in ThucydidesSandra Lúcia Rodrigues da Rocha14. Prudent Alarm and Illustrated Threats: Rhetorical Fear in XenophonRichard Fernando Buxton15. Fear and Loathing in Polybius’ HistoriesCraige B. Champion16. Fearmongering and Performance in Plutarch: Fear as Narrative Technique in the Lives of Solon, Alcibiades, and PhocionDelfim Leão17. Fearing the Enemy: Livy’s Description of the GaulsPriscilla Adriane Ferreira Almeida4. Drama and Philosophy18. Prospective Precedent as a Scare Tactic in Athenian TragedyRuth Scodel19. The Threat of Comedy: Aristophanes, Böhmermann, and the Scare Tactic GameA.S. Lewis20. Puppets of Fear on the Stage of the Ideal City: Imbibing Civic Transformation in Plato’s Republic and the LawsEva Anagnostou-Laoutides5. And Beyond21. The Unchanging Face of Jingoistic Rhetoric?Ian Worthington22. Páthei Máthos: Ancient Rhetorical and Poetic Techniques and the Production of Fear in Modern FilmMaria Cecília de Miranda Nogueira Coelho23. The Rhetorical Use of Fear in Children’s EducationMarina Pelluci Duarte Mortoza