Essays on Argumentation in Antiquity
Essays on Argumentation in Antiquity

Author: Joseph Andrew Bjelde

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-07-12

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 3030708179

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This book provides a collection of essays representing the state of the art in the research into argumentation in classical antiquity. It contains essays from leading and up and coming scholars on figures as diverse as Parmenides, Gorgias, Seneca, and Classical Chinese "wandering persuaders." The book includes contributions from specialists in the history of philosophy as well as specialists in contemporary argumentation theory, and stimulates the dialogue between scholars studying issues relating to argumentation theory in ancient philosophy and contemporary argumentation theorists. Furthermore, the book sets the direction for research into argumentation in antiquity by encouraging an engagement with a broader range of historical figures, and closer collaboration between contemporary concerns and the history of philosophy.

Essays in Antiquity
Essays in Antiquity

Author: Peter Green

Publisher:

Published: 1960

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13:

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Essays on Homer, Greek historiography, philosophy, Julius Caesar, Roman literature, and other classical subjects.

Rhetorical Arguments
Rhetorical Arguments

Author: Maria Silvana Celentano

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783487152660

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The present volume is a tribute to Lucia Calboli Montefusco, Professor Emerita of the University of Bologna, internationally recognised specialist in the history of rhetoric and President of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric 2009-11. After a discussion of her career and publications 27 essays follow linked in different ways to rhetorical argumentation, one of the central problems of Lucia Calboli Montefusco's research. Following a flexibly chronological plan, these studies discuss successively Greek theory and practice (Thucydides, Lysias, Isaeus, Isocrates, Aristotle, Chrysippus), and Greco-Roman rhetoric between the Republic and late antiquity (Cicero, Quintilian, Chariton of Aphrodisias, John Chrysostom, Choricius of Gaza, Cassiodorus, Martianus Capella). The volume ends with analyses on medieval Latin epistolography (Thirteenth century) and dialectic in the renaissance (Lorenzo Valla and Rudolph Agricola). These studies devoted to the dialectical aspect of rhetoric are enhanced by studies of the link between rhetorical argumentation and historical circumstances, the parts of the oration, other forms of textual production (the novel, the letter), theatre, torture and the law. This broad view, faithful to the breadth of ' the Realm of Rhetoric ' (Chaim Perelman) is also a tribute to a tradition which Lucia Calboli Montefusco has herself illuminated to a very large extent in working as well on Aristotle and Consultus Fortunatianus as on George Trapezuntius of Crete.

Bending Opinion
Bending Opinion

Author: Ton van Haaften

Publisher:

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 455

ISBN-13: 9789087280994

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Presents an overview of interdisciplinary scholarship on rhetoric and its approaches and methodologies.

Exploring the Economy of Late Antiquity
Exploring the Economy of Late Antiquity

Author: Jairus Banaji

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 1107101948

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This book contributes to a new economic history of late antiquity, with tightly argued, stimulating studies of class, money and exchange.

Creationism and Its Critics in Antiquity
Creationism and Its Critics in Antiquity

Author: David Sedley

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2008-01-16

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9780520934368

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The world is configured in ways that seem systematically hospitable to life forms, especially the human race. Is this the outcome of divine planning or simply of the laws of physics? Ancient Greeks and Romans famously disagreed on whether the cosmos was the product of design or accident. In this book, David Sedley examines this question and illuminates new historical perspectives on the pantheon of thinkers who laid the foundations of Western philosophy and science. Versions of what we call the "creationist" option were widely favored by the major thinkers of classical antiquity, including Plato, whose ideas on the subject prepared the ground for Aristotle's celebrated teleology. But Aristotle aligned himself with the anti-creationist lobby, whose most militant members—the atomists—sought to show how a world just like ours would form inevitably by sheer accident, given only the infinity of space and matter. This stimulating study explores seven major thinkers and philosophical movements enmeshed in the debate: Anaxagoras, Empedocles, Socrates, Plato, the atomists, Aristotle, and the Stoics.

Exploring the Economy of Late Antiquity
Exploring the Economy of Late Antiquity

Author: Jairus Banaji

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-12-01

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 1316483312

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This collection of essays, by leading historian Jairus Banaji, provides a stimulating rebuttal to the prevailing minimalism in late antique studies. Together, they strike a balance between the wide lens and more specialised discussion, expanding on the perspective and argumentation laid out in an earlier book, Agrarian Change in Late Antiquity (2001). Successive chapters discuss the scale of the late Roman gold currency, the economic nature of the aristocracy, the importance of trade, relations between the state and the ruling class, and the problem of continuity into the early Middle Ages. A substantial introduction pulls together the themes of the book into a coherent synopsis, while the preface clarifies the broad aims behind the study. The book as a whole deploys a wide range of sources in various languages and is intended for ancient historians, students of late antiquity, and economic historians more generally.

Emotion and Persuasion in Classical Antiquity
Emotion and Persuasion in Classical Antiquity

Author: Ed Sanders

Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 9783515113618

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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.

Innovations of Antiquity
Innovations of Antiquity

Author: Daniel L. Selden

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-11-19

Total Pages: 613

ISBN-13: 1317761189

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A collection of essays representing the cutting edge of critical thinking in Greek and Roman literature in America today.

Ovid in Late Antiquity
Ovid in Late Antiquity

Author: Franca Ela Consolino

Publisher:

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9782503578088

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The 2000th anniversary of Ovid's death was celebrated in 2017, and Ovid in Late Antiquity aims to mark the occasion. This book embodies a specific approach to Ovid's oeuvre, which is not analysed in and of itself, but rather in its role as a wellspring of inspiration to which later authors would return time and again. Covering the work of a number of authors, who found their way back to Ovid via different methodological pathways, the research distilled in this book is geared towards exploring the ways in which the authors of late antiquity interacted with the poet of the Metamorphoses and with his immense, multifaceted output. The choice of this approach arose out of an awareness that the presence and influence of Ovid in late antiquity constitute aspects of the Ovidian legacy that would benefit from more in-depth exploration. The essays in this collection are intended to help bridge this gap.