Research Catalog

Title

Rhetoric and religion in ancient Greece and Rome / edited by Sophia Papaioannou, Andreas Serafim and Kyriakos Demetriou.

Publication

• Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2021]
• ©2021

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Details

Additional Authors

• Papaioannou, Sophia
• Serafim, Andreas
• Dēmētriou, Kyriakos N.

Description

vi, 304 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"It is perhaps a truism to note that ancient religion and rhetoric were closely intertwined in Greek and Roman antiquity. Religion is embedded in socio-political, legal and cultural institutions and structures, while also being influenced, or even determined, by them. Rhetoric is used to address the divine, to invoke the gods, to talk about the sacred, to express piety and to articulate, refer to, recite or explain the meaning of hymns, oaths, prayers, oracles and other religious matters and processes. The 13 contributions to this volume explore themes and topics that most succinctly describe the firm interrelation between religion and rhetoric mostly in, but not exclusively focused on, Greek and Roman antiquity, offering new, interdisciplinary insights into a great variety of aspects, from identity construction and performance to legal/political practices and a broad analytical approach to transcultural ritualistic customs. The volume also offers perceptive insights into oriental (i.e. Egyptian magic) texts and Christian literature."--Provided by publisher.

Series Statement

Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes, 1868-4785 ; volume 106

Uniform Title

Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; v. 106.

Subject

• Rhetoric, Ancient
• Rhetoric > Religious aspects
• Rhetoric

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

Religion and rhetoric in ancient Graeco-Roman texts and contexts / Sophia Papioannou and Andreas Serafim -- Religion and the rule of law in the Greek Polis / Edward M. Harris -- Speaking for the gods : Greek cultic regulations and their silent informants / Jakub Filonik -- Religious arguments in antiphon rhetor / William Furley -- Performing the rhetoric of magic in Ovid's Epistulae heroidum and Metamorphoses / Despina Keramida -- Transcultural context in Graeco-Egyptian magic : two case studies from a bilingual Theban handbook / Panagiota Sarischouli -- Trends in the rhetoric of prayer : the Actio of prayer and the Eloquentia popularis / Maik Patzelt -- Between compassion and aggression : the rhetoric of mourning in Republican and Early Imperial Rome / Christopher Degelmann -- Argument and performance in the creation of a rhetorical matrix in Paul's congregations and beyond / Glenn Holland -- Beloved of the gods, son of the gods, rival of the gods : Alexander and the rhetoric of religion in Plutarch, Arrian and Curtius Rufus / Vasileios Liotsakis -- What makes a Divus? The prospective rhetoric of deification in Pliny's Panegyricus / Kelly E. Shannon-Henderson -- Tua divinitas : religious self-fashioning in Tiberian Rome / Hans-Friedrich Mueller -- Biblical epics : intersection of rhetoric and religion in Greek and Latin hexametric paraphrases of Psalm 136 (137) / Konstantinos Melidis.

Call Number

JFE 23-895

ISBN

• 9783110699166
• 3110699168

LCCN

2021944978

OCLC

1247830098

Title

Rhetoric and religion in ancient Greece and Rome / edited by Sophia Papaioannou, Andreas Serafim and Kyriakos Demetriou.

Publisher

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2021]

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes, 1868-4785 ; volume 106

Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; v. 106.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Added Author

Papaioannou, Sophia, editor.

Serafim, Andreas, editor.

Dēmētriou, Kyriakos N., editor.

Other Form:

Online version: Rhetoric and religion in ancient Greece and Rome. Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2021] 9783110699623 (DLC) 2021944978 (OCoLC)1280945614

Research Call Number

JFE 23-895