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Format: 1 online resource (XI, 450 p.)

ISBN: 9783110611168

Series Statement: Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes ; 108

Content: This volume, comprising 24 essays, aims to contribute to a developing appreciation of the capacity of rhetoric to reinforce affiliation or disaffiliation to groups. To this end, the essays span a variety of ancient literary genres (i.e. oratory, historical and technical prose, drama and poetry) and themes (i.e. audience-speaker, laughter, emotions, language, gender, identity, and religion).

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgements -- , List of Tables -- , Unity and Division in Ancient Literature: Current Perspectives and Further Research -- , Part I: Authors, Speakers and Audience -- , The Rhetoric of (Dis)Unity in the Attic Orators -- , Creating a Cultural Community: Aeschines and Demosthenes -- , “I, He, We, You, They”: Addresses to the Audience as a Means of Unity/Division in Attic Forensic Oratory -- , Rhetoric of Disunity Through Arousal of Hostile Emotions in Eisangelia Cases -- , “It Takes More Love to Kill a Son than to Vindicate Him”: How Maxims May Contribute to Affiliation -- , Part II: Emotions -- , Projective Uses of Emotions, Out-groups and Personal Characterization: The Case of Against Aristogeiton I (Dem. 25) -- , Xenophon on Strategies to Maintain Unity in Armies under Stress -- , Part III: Drama and Poetry -- , Divided Audiences and How to Win Them Over: The Case of Aristophanes’ Acharnians -- , Fighting Against an Intruder: A Comparative Reading of the Speeches of Pentheus (3.531–563) and Niobe (6.170–202) in Ovid’s Metamorphoses -- , Humorous Unity and Disunity between the Characters in Vergil’s Eclogues 1 and 2 -- , Part IV: Historical and Technical Prose -- , Disunity and the Macedonians in the Literature of Alexander: Plutarch, Arrian and Curtius Rufus -- , Divisive Scholarship: Affiliation Dynamics in Ancient Greek Literary Criticism -- , The Rhetoric of Homonoia in Dio Chrysostom’s Civic Orations -- , Finding Unity through Knowledge: Narrative and Identity-Building in Greek Technical Prose -- , Part V: Gender and the Construction of Identity -- , Vanishing Mothers. The (De)construction of Personal Identity in Attic Forensic Speeches -- , Cato vs Valerius/Men vs Women: Rhetorical Strategies in The Oppian Law Debate in Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita -- , Humanitas: A Double-edged Sword in Apuleius the Orator? -- , Part VI: Religious Discourse -- , Rhetoric of the Mortals, Rhetoric of the Gods. Deigmata, Phasmata and the Construction of Evidence -- , Ciceronian vs Socratic Dialogue in the De divinatione -- , Unity and Disunity in Paulinus of Nola Poem 24 -- , Note on Editors and Contributors -- , General Index -- , Index Locorum , In English.

Additional Edition: ISBN 9783110609868

Additional Edition: ISBN 9783110609790

Language: English

DOI: 10.1515/9783110611168

URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110611168

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URL: https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110611168

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110611168