TY - BOOK AU - Beneventano della Corte,Flaminia AU - Breij,Bé AU - Edwards,Michael J. AU - Ferrucci,Stefano AU - Fisher,Nick AU - Hardie,Philip AU - Konstantakos,Ioannis AU - Kremmydas,Christos AU - Liotsakis,Vasileios AU - McClain,T.Davina AU - Michalopoulos,Andreas N. AU - Mollea,Simone AU - Paraskeviotis,George AU - Paschalis,Michael AU - Romani Mistretta,Marco AU - Sanders,Ed AU - Serafim,Andreas AU - Spatharas,Dimos AU - Vatri,Alessandro AU - Volonaki,Eleni TI - The Rhetoric of Unity and Division in Ancient Literature T2 - Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes , SN - 9783110609790 PY - 2021///] CY - Berlin, Boston : PB - De Gruyter, KW - Antike Literatur KW - Drama KW - Emotionen KW - Rhetorik KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical KW - bisacsh KW - drama KW - literature KW - rhetoric N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; List of Tables --; Unity and Division in Ancient Literature: Current Perspectives and Further Research --; Part I: Authors, Speakers and Audience --; The Rhetoric of (Dis)Unity in the Attic Orators --; Creating a Cultural Community: Aeschines and Demosthenes --; “I, He, We, You, They”: Addresses to the Audience as a Means of Unity/Division in Attic Forensic Oratory --; Rhetoric of Disunity Through Arousal of Hostile Emotions in Eisangelia Cases --; “It Takes More Love to Kill a Son than to Vindicate Him”: How Maxims May Contribute to Affiliation --; Part II: Emotions --; Projective Uses of Emotions, Out-groups and Personal Characterization: The Case of Against Aristogeiton I (Dem. 25) --; Xenophon on Strategies to Maintain Unity in Armies under Stress --; Part III: Drama and Poetry --; Divided Audiences and How to Win Them Over: The Case of Aristophanes’ Acharnians --; Fighting Against an Intruder: A Comparative Reading of the Speeches of Pentheus (3.531–563) and Niobe (6.170–202) in Ovid’s Metamorphoses --; Humorous Unity and Disunity between the Characters in Vergil’s Eclogues 1 and 2 --; Part IV: Historical and Technical Prose --; Disunity and the Macedonians in the Literature of Alexander: Plutarch, Arrian and Curtius Rufus --; Divisive Scholarship: Affiliation Dynamics in Ancient Greek Literary Criticism --; The Rhetoric of Homonoia in Dio Chrysostom’s Civic Orations --; Finding Unity through Knowledge: Narrative and Identity-Building in Greek Technical Prose --; Part V: Gender and the Construction of Identity --; Vanishing Mothers. The (De)construction of Personal Identity in Attic Forensic Speeches --; Cato vs Valerius/Men vs Women: Rhetorical Strategies in The Oppian Law Debate in Livy’s Ab Urbe Condita --; Humanitas: A Double-edged Sword in Apuleius the Orator? --; Part VI: Religious Discourse --; Rhetoric of the Mortals, Rhetoric of the Gods. Deigmata, Phasmata and the Construction of Evidence --; Ciceronian vs Socratic Dialogue in the De divinatione --; Unity and Disunity in Paulinus of Nola Poem 24 --; Note on Editors and Contributors --; General Index --; Index Locorum; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - 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) UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110611168 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110611168 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110611168/original ER -