Papaioannou, Sophia and Serafim, Andreas and Demetriou, Kyriakos  <br/><br/>
Rhetoric and Religion in Ancient Greece and Rome  

 - Berlin  Walter de Gruyter GmbH  2021  
 - 304p 
 - Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes - 106 .
<br/><br/>1. Religion, Rhetoric and Law <br/>Religion and the Rule of Law in the Greek Polis.....17<br/>Speaking for the Gods: Greek Cultic Regulations and their Silent Informats............37<br/>Religious Arguments in Antiphon Rhetor .............59<br/>2. Magic and Religion <br/>Performing the Rhetoric of magic in Ovid`s Epistulae Heroidum and Metamorphoses ................81<br/>Transcultural Context in Graeco-Egyptian Magic : Two Case Studies from a Bilingual Theban Handbook ....101<br/>3. Religion and Rhetorical Performance <br/>Trends in the Rhetoric of Prayer : The Actio of Prayer and the Eloquentia Popularis ........133<br/>Between Compassion and Aggression : The Rhetoric of Mourning in Republican and Early imperial Rome ..........153<br/>Argument and Performance in the Creation of a Rhetorical Matrix in Paul`s Congregations and Beyond ..........171<br/>4. The Rulers Religion<br/>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<br/>What makes a Divus? The Prospective Rhetoric of Deification in Pliny`s .........221<br/>Tua Divinitas: Religious Self-Fashioning in Tiberian Rome .........245<br/>5. Rhetoric and Religion in Verse Style <br/>Biblical Epics : Intersection of Rhetoric and Religion in Greek and Latin Hexametric Paraphrases of Psalm 139................269<br/> 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9783110699166 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>C37.1  / P197