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Andreas Serafim
This book offers the first systematic, up-to-date, cross-cultural, and detailed study of "semi-volitional bodily behaviour" (sneezing, spitting, coughing, burping, vomiting, defecating, etc.) in the classical world.
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The book offers a critical investigation of a wide range of features of religious discourse in the transmitted forensic, symbouleutic and epideictic orations of the Ten Attic Orators, a body…
In a society where public speech was integral to the decision-making process, and where all affairs pertaining to the community were the subject of democratic debate, the communication between the…
The volume examines the features and functions of comic invective in ancient Greek and Roman oratory. Thereby the chapters acknowledge the centrality of comic invective in a range of oratorical…
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Through an interdisciplinary and intercultural approach, the articles in this volume argue that by advancing our knowledge on the processes of presenting witnesses and gathering or constructing evidence in ancient…
The Theatre of Justice contains 17 chapters that offer a holistic view of performance in Greek and Roman oratorical and political contexts.
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The chapters of this volume aim to examine aspects of sexual practices in Greek and Roman antiquity: i.e. the acts of sexual intercourse, the erogenous capacities and genital functions of…
The chapters of this volume shed new light on the complicated relationship between religious discourse and rhetoric across several (con)texts from classical to late. Rhetoric is used to address the…
This is an original collection of essays that contribute to a developing appreciation of persuasion across ancient genres (mainly oratory, historiography, poetry) and a wide diversity of interdisciplinary topics (performance…
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…
