TY - BOOK AU - Papaioannou, Sophia and Serafim, Andreas and Demetriou, Kyriakos TI - Rhetoric and Religion in Ancient Greece and Rome SN - 9783110699166 U1 - C37.1 PY - 2021/// CY - Berlin PB - Walter de Gruyter GmbH N1 - 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 ER -