Emotions, persuasion, and public discourse in classical Athens / Dimos Spatharas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Spatharas, Dēmos G., author.

Series:

Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes ; v. 83.

Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes, 1868-4785 ; volume 83. Ancient emotions ; II

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Persuasion (Rhetoric)--Political aspects--Greece--Athens--History.

Persuasion (Rhetoric).

Emotions--History.

Emotions.

History.

Persuasion (Rhetoric)--Political aspects.

Greece--Athens.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

x, 222 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2019]

Summary:

This book is an addition to the burgeoning secondary literature on ancient emotions. Its primary aim is to suggest possible ways in which recent approaches to emotions can help us understand significant aspects of persuasion in classical antiquity and, especially audiences' psychological manipulation in the civic procedures of classical Athens. Based on cognitive approaches to emotions, Skinner's theoretical work on the language of ideology, or ancient theories about enargeia, the book examines pivotal aspects of psychological manipulation in ancient rhetorical theory and practice. At the same time, the book looks into possible ways in which the emotive potentialities of vision -both sights and mental images- are explained or deployed by orators. The book includes substantial discussion of Gorgias' approach to sights ' emotional qualities and their implications for persuasion and deception and the importance of visuality for Thucydides' analysis of emotions' role in the polis' public communication. It also looks into the deployment of enargeia in forensic narratives revolving around violence. The book also focuses on the ideological implications of envy for the political discourse of classical Athens and emphasizes the rhetorical strategies employed by self-praising speakers who want to preempt their listeners' loathing. This book is the second volume of Ancient Emotions, edited by George Kazantzidis and Dimos Spatharas within the series Trends in Classics. Supplementary Volumes. This project investigates the history of emotions in classical antiquity, providing a home for interdisciplinary approaches to ancient emotions, and exploring the inter-faces between emotions and significant aspects of ancient literature and culture.

Contents:

1 Vision and emotions in Gorgias p. 24

1.2 Vision and the generation of emotions in the Encomium of Helen p. 26

1.3 Emotions, vision, and cognitive impairment p. 38

1.4 The fabrication of likenesses: visual arts, speech, and emotions p. 43

1.5 Helen's eyes, Gorglas' epideixis, and the poets p. 52

2 Vision and collective emotions in Thucydides: eros, pothos, and anger p. 57

2.2 Pericles' lovers of the city p. 61

2.3 Lovers of sights: eros, pothos, and vision p. 65

2.4 Archidamus, vision, and anger p. 72

3 Enargeio, emotions, and violence in forensic storytelling p. 80

3.1 Forensic narratives: some preliminary observations p. 80

3.2 Forensic narratives and Athenian courts p. 84

3.3 Enargeia, verisimilitude, and emotions p. 89

3.4 Enargeia, emotions, and stories about violence p. 94

4 The ideological uses of 'legitimate envy' in classical Athens p. 123

4.2 Equalities, inequalities, and the envy of the hoi polloi p. 129

4.3 The democratization of envy: 'Indignation' and democratic ideology p. 135

4.4 Meidias' lifestyle: spectacles of luxuriousness and legitimate envy p. 148

5 Self-praise and envy in rhetoric and the Athenian courts p. 159

5.2 Self-praise and envy p. 160

5.3 Self-praise and envy avoidance strategies p. 166

5.4 Self-praise and cooperation in classical Athens p. 172.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-209) and indexes.

Other Format:

PDF

ePub

ISBN:

9783110618037

3110618036

OCLC:

1111570425

Publisher Number:

9783110618037

99981452176