Rhetoric and Religion in Ancient Greece and Rome

By:

Papaioannou, Sophia and Serafim, Andreas and Demetriou, Kyriakos [Editors]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes - 106Publication details: Berlin Walter de Gruyter GmbH 2021 Description: 304pISBN:

9783110699166

DDC classification:

P197 C37.1

Contents:

1. Religion, Rhetoric and Law Religion and the Rule of Law in the Greek Polis.....17 Speaking for the Gods: Greek Cultic Regulations and their Silent Informats............37 Religious Arguments in Antiphon Rhetor .............59 2. Magic and Religion Performing the Rhetoric of magic in Ovid`s Epistulae Heroidum and Metamorphoses ................81 Transcultural Context in Graeco-Egyptian Magic : Two Case Studies from a Bilingual Theban Handbook ....101 3. Religion and Rhetorical Performance Trends in the Rhetoric of Prayer : The Actio of Prayer and the Eloquentia Popularis ........133 Between Compassion and Aggression : The Rhetoric of Mourning in Republican and Early imperial Rome ..........153 Argument and Performance in the Creation of a Rhetorical Matrix in Paul`s Congregations and Beyond ..........171 4. The Rulers Religion Beloved of the Gods, Son of the Gods, Rival of the Gods: Alexander and the Rhetoric of Religion in Plutarch, Arrian and Curtius Rufus .........193 What makes a Divus? The Prospective Rhetoric of Deification in Pliny`s .........221 Tua Divinitas: Religious Self-Fashioning in Tiberian Rome .........245 5. Rhetoric and Religion in Verse Style Biblical Epics : Intersection of Rhetoric and Religion in Greek and Latin Hexametric Paraphrases of Psalm 139................269

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1. Religion, Rhetoric and Law
Religion and the Rule of Law in the Greek Polis.....17
Speaking for the Gods: Greek Cultic Regulations and their Silent Informats............37
Religious Arguments in Antiphon Rhetor .............59
2. Magic and Religion
Performing the Rhetoric of magic in Ovid`s Epistulae Heroidum and Metamorphoses ................81
Transcultural Context in Graeco-Egyptian Magic : Two Case Studies from a Bilingual Theban Handbook ....101
3. Religion and Rhetorical Performance
Trends in the Rhetoric of Prayer : The Actio of Prayer and the Eloquentia Popularis ........133
Between Compassion and Aggression : The Rhetoric of Mourning in Republican and Early imperial Rome ..........153
Argument and Performance in the Creation of a Rhetorical Matrix in Paul`s Congregations and Beyond ..........171
4. The Rulers Religion
Beloved of the Gods, Son of the Gods, Rival of the Gods: Alexander and the Rhetoric of Religion in Plutarch, Arrian and Curtius Rufus .........193
What makes a Divus? The Prospective Rhetoric of Deification in Pliny`s .........221
Tua Divinitas: Religious Self-Fashioning in Tiberian Rome .........245
5. Rhetoric and Religion in Verse Style
Biblical Epics : Intersection of Rhetoric and Religion in Greek and Latin Hexametric Paraphrases of Psalm 139................269

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