Many of them from a November 2017 international conference in Athens, 20 papers analyze the rhetoric of community and division in Greco-Roman prose and poetry. The overall themes are authors, speakers, and audience; emotions; drama and poetry; historical and technical prose; gender and the construction of identity; and religious discourse. Among the topics are rhetoric of disunity through arousal of hostile emotions in Elsangelia cases, Xenophon on strategies to maintain unity in armies under stress, vanishing mothers: the (de)construction of personal identity in Attic forensic speeches, and Ciceronian versus Socratic dialogue in the De divinatione. Annotation ©2021 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
This volume, comprising 24 essays, aims to contribute to a developing appreciation of the capacity of rhetoric to reinforce affiliation or disaffiliation to groups. To this end, the essays span a variety of ancient literary genres (i.e. oratory, historical and technical prose, drama and poetry) and themes (i.e. audience-speaker, laughter, emotions, language, gender, identity, and religion).
Trends in Classics, a series and journal edited by Franco Montanari and Antonios Rengakos, publishes innovative, interdisciplinary work which brings to the study of Greek and Latin texts the insights and methods of related disciplines such as narratology, intertextuality, reader-response criticism, and oral poetics. Both publications seek to publish research across the full range of classical antiquity.
The series Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes welcomes monographs, edited volumes, conference proceedings and collections of papers; it provides an important forum for the ongoing debate about where Classics fits in modern cultural and historical studies.
The journal Trends in Classics is published twice a year with approx. 160 pp. per issue. Each year one issue is devoted to a specific subject with articles edited by a guest editor.
