Brill's Companion to the Reception of Ancient Rhetoric

Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-90-04-37365-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 23, 688 Seiten, Format (B × H): 158 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 1111 g

Reihe: Brill's Companions to Classical Reception

This volume, examining the reception of ancient rhetoric, aims to demonstrate that the past is always part of the present: in the ways in which decisions about crucial political, social and economic matters have been made historically; or in organic interaction with literature, philosophy and culture at the core of the foundation principles of Western thought and values. Analysis is meant to cover the broadest possible spectrum of considerations that focus on the totality of rhetorical species (i.e. forensic, deliberative and epideictic) as they are applied to diversified topics (including, but not limited to, language, science, religion, literature, theatre and other cultural processes (e.g. athletics), politics and leadership, pedagogy and gender studies) and cross-cultural, geographical and temporal contexts.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Papaioannou, Sophia

Serafim, Andreas

Edwards, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprechwissenschaft, Rhetorik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Rezeption, literarische Einflüsse und Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Acknowledgements

Notes on Editors and Contributors

1 Making the Past Present: Ancient Rhetoric across the Ages, Cultures, and Topics

Sophia Papaioannou, Andreas Serafim, and Michael Edwards

Part 1: Survey Chapters

2 The Reception of Greek Rhetoric in the Late Antique East

Alex Petkas

3 The Reception and Transformation of Rhetoric in Germany during the Eighteenth Century

Dietmar Till

4 The Beginning of Rhetoric among Serbs: Pioneering Manual in Eloquence by Avram Mrazovic from 1821

Dragutin Avramovic

Part 2: Thematic Chapters

Section 1: The Genres, Techniques, and Features of Rhetoric

5 The Persuasive Potential of Epideictic Rhetoric: Ancient Past and Contemporary Reception

Takis Poulakos

6 The Reception of Paradeigma in Late Greek Rhetorical Theory

M. Carmen Encinas Reguero

7 Reading Pliny’s Panegyricus within the Context of Late Antiquity and the Early Modern Period

William J. Dominik

8 Psogos: The Rhetoric of Invective in 4th Century CE Imperial Speeches

Alberto J. Quiroga Puertas

9 Aristotle’s Rhetoric in Italy (1250–1400): The Latin and the Vernacular Traditions

Fiammetta Papi

10 Dionysius Longinus, On Sublimity

Malcolm Heath

11 Ancient Rhetoric and the Early “Italian” Commentaries on the Poetria nova

Domenico Losappio

12 The Reception of Quintilian’s Theory of Gesture: Rhetorical Elements in Pantomime Acting

Chrysanthi Demetriou

Section 2: Literature, Theatre, and Culture

13 Rhetoric, the Dorian Hexapolis, and Knidos: A Study of the Reception of Ancient Rhetoric in the Greek East and Its Impact on the Second Sophistic

Richard Leo Enos

14 “A Feast of Languages”: William Shakespeare’s Reception of Ancient Rhetoric

Michael J. MacDonald

15 Ancient Rhetoric on the Silver Screen: Performing Agones in Michael Cacoyannis’s Euripidean Trilogy

Anastasia Bakogianni

16 Sport and Peace: Panhellenic Myth-Making and the Modern Olympics

Jacques A. Bromberg

Section 3: Politics, Leadership and Public Speaking

17 The Demosthenic Model of Leadership Revisited by Libanius: The Revival of Philip in the Funeral Oration over Julian

Styliani Chrysikou

18 Rhetoric, Aesthetics, and the State in Renaissance Political Thought

Peter Stacey

19 The Last Orator: Rufus Choate and the End of Classical Eloquence in America

James M. Farrell

20 Metaphors in Rhetoric: From Ancient Greek to 21st-Century Politics

Jakub Filonik

Section 4: Pedagogy and Gender

21 The Reception of Ancient Rhetoric in Modern Argumentation Theory and Pedagogy

Christian Kock

22 Ancient Forensic Rhetoric in a Modern Classroom

Sima Avramovic and Gerhard Thür

23 The Rhetoric of Gender in the Heroides of the French Renaissance: Revisiting Female Exempla

Stella Alekou

Section 5: Religion

24 Christians, Ottomans, and Emperors: Demosthenes in European Politics

Maria S. Youni

25 Augustine’s Christian Eloquence

Hanne Roer

Section 6: Science

26 Rhetoric of Mathematics: The Case of Diophantus of Alexandria

Jean Christianidis and Michalis Sialaros

27 Philosophia naturalis: Ancient Rhetoric and Early Modern Science

Johanna Luggin

General Index

Index Locorum

Über Autor(innen)

Sophia Papaioannou, Ph.D. (1998), University of Texas at Austin, 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) and The Ancient Art of Persuasion across Genres and Topics, with Andreas Serafim and Kyriakos Demetriou (Brill, 2019).

Andreas Serafim, Ph.D. (2013), University College London, is a Research Fellow at the Research Centre for Greek and Latin Literature of the Academy of Athens. He has published several books and articles on ancient rhetoric and interdisciplinary topics, and co-edited several volumes, including The Theatre of Justice, with Sophia Papaioannou and Beatrice da Vela (Brill, 2017) and The Ancient Art of Persuasion across Genres and Topics, with Sophia Papaioannou and Kyriakos Demetriou (Brill, 2019).

Michael Edwards, Ph.D., is an Honorary Research Fellow at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, after being Professor of Classics in the Universities of London, Wales and Roehampton, all in the UK. He was Director of the Institute of Classical Studies, UK, and President of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric. He has published extensively on the Attic orators and is currently preparing an Oxford Classical Text of Isaeus.

Contributors are: Stella Alekou, Dragutin Avramovic, Sima Avramovic, Anastasia Bakogianni, Jacques A. Bromberg, Jean Christianidis, Styliani Chrysikou, Chrysanthi Demetriou, William J. Dominik, M. Carmen Encinas Reguero, Richard Leo Enos, James M. Farrell, Jakub Filonik, Malcolm Heath, Christian Kock, Domenico Losappio, Johanna Luggin, Michael J. MacDonald, Fiammetta Papi, Alex Petkas, Takis Poulakos, Alberto J. Quiroga Puertas, Hanne Roer, Michalis Sialaros, Stacey Peter, Gerhard Thür, Dietmar Till, Maria S. Youni.