Sanders / Johncock Emotion and Persuasion in Classical Antiquity

1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-3-515-11364-9
Verlag: Franz Steiner
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Deutsch, Englisch, 321 Seiten, E-Book-Text

Appeal to emotion is a key technique of persuasion, ranked by Aristotle alongside logical reasoning and arguments from character. Although ancient philosophical discussions of it have been much researched, exploration of its practical use has focused largely on explicit appeals to a handful of emotions (anger, hatred, envy, pity) in 5th–4th century BCE Athenian courtroom oratory. This volume expands horizons: from an opening section focusing on so-far underexplored emotions and sub-genres of oratory in Classical Athens, its scope moves outwards generically, geographically, and chronologically through the "Greek East" to Rome.

Key thematic links are: the role of emotion in the formation of community identity; persuasive strategies in situations of unequal power; and linguistic formulae and genre-specific emotional persuasion. Other recurring themes include performance (rather than arousal) of emotions, the choice between emotional and rational argumentation, the emotions of gods, and a concern with a secondary "audience": the reader.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sanders, Ed

Johncock, Matthew

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprechwissenschaft, Rhetorik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Historische & Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;CONTENTS;6
2;ACKNOWLEDGMENTS;8
3;ABBREVIATIONS;10
4;CONTRIBUTORS;12
5;INTRODUCTION;14
6;PART I: EMOTION IN CLASSICAL GREEK ORATORY – NEW DIRECTIONS;26
6.1;BASHING THE ESTABLISHMENT;28
6.2;RATIONAL AND EMOTIONAL PERSUASION IN ATHENIAN INHERITANCE CASES;42
6.3;PERSUASION THROUGH EMOTIONS IN ATHENIAN DELIBERATIVE ORATORY;58
6.4;NOSTALGIA, POLITICS AND PERSUASION IN DEMOSTHENES’ LETTERS;76
7;PART II: EMOTION AND THE FORMATION OF COMMUNITY IDENTITY;92
7.1;DISPLAYING EMOTIONAL COMMUNITY – THE EPIGRAPHIC EVIDENCE;94
7.2;EMOTION, PERSUASION AND KINSHIP IN THUCYDIDES: THE PLATAIAN DEBATE (3.52–68) AND THE MELIAN DIALOGUE (5.85–113)*;114
7.3;‘THERE IS NO ONE WHO DOES NOT HATE SULLA’: EMOTION, PERSUASION AND CULTURAL TRAUMA;134
7.4;GREATER THAN LOGOS? KINAESTHETIC EMPATHY AND MASS PERSUASION IN THE CHORUSES OF PLATO’S LAWS;148
8;PART III: PERSUASIVE STRATEGIES IN UNEQUAL POWER RELATIONSHIPS;164
8.1;INSTRUCTION AND EXAMPLE: EMOTIONS IN XENOPHON’S HIPPARCHICUS AND ANABASIS*;166
8.2;ANGER AS A MECHANISM FOR SOCIAL CONTROL IN IMPERIAL ROME;184
8.3;EMOTIONS IN ROMAN HISTORIOGRAPHY: THE RHETORICAL USE OF TEARS AS A MEANS OF PERSUASION;200
8.4;‘HE WAS MOVED, BUT…’: FAILED APPEALS TO THE EMOTIONS IN OVID’S METAMORPHOSES;214
9;PART IV: LINGUISTIC FORMULAE AND GENRE-SPECIFIC PERSUASION;236
9.1;EMOTIONAL LANGUAGE AND FORMULAE OF PERSUASION IN GREEK PAPYRUS LETTERS;238
9.2;EMOTIONS, PERSUASION AND GENDER IN GREEK EROTIC CURSES;264
9.3;STRATEGIES OF PERSUASION IN PROVOKED QUARRELS IN PLAUTUS: A PRAGMATIC PERSPECTIVE;282
9.4;‘IT AIN’T NECESSARILY SO’: REINTERPRETING SOME POEMS OF CATULLUS FROM A DISCURSIVE PSYCHOLOGICAL POINT OF VIEW;296
10;GENERAL INDEX;316

Über Autor(innen)

Sanders, Ed
Ed Sanders is an Honorary Research Associate at Royal Holloway, University of London and a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Roehampton. His research focuses on emotions in Classical Greek literature. His current research is on emotional rhetorical strategies in Classical Greek oratory and related genres.

Johncock, Matthew
Matthew Johncock received his PhD from Royal Holloway, University of London, on the topic of Metaphor and Argumentation in Lucretius. His broader research interests, predominantly in Latin literature, include metaphor, Latin philosophical language, and the relationship between author and reader. He is currently teacher of Classics at Wellington College.