Brill's Companion to the Reception of Ancient Rhetoric: 23 (Brill's Companions to Classical Reception, 23) - Hardcover

Sophia Papaioannou; Andreas Serafim; Michael Edwards

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004373659 ISBN 13: 9789004373655

Publisher: BRILL, 2021

Synopsis

This volume aims to offer a wide examination of the ways in which ancient rhetoric has been adopted, adapted, imitated, contested, admired and criticised in representative genres, cultures and spatiotemporal contexts, from antiquity through Byzantine culture, the Renaissance and the Enlightenment to the 21st century CE.

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Sophia Papaioannou, Ph.D. (1998), University of Texas at Austin, is Professor of Latin Literature at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She has published several books and articles on Latin Epic, the Augustan literature, and Roman Comedy, and co-edited several volumes, including The Theatre of Justice, with Andreas Serafim and Beatrice da Vela (Brill, 2017) and The Ancient Art of Persuasion across Genres and Topics, with Andreas Serafim and Kyriakos Demetriou (Brill, 2019).
Andreas Serafim, Ph.D. (2013), University College London, is a Research Fellow at the Research Centre for Greek and Latin Literature of the Academy of Athens. He has published several books and articles on ancient rhetoric and interdisciplinary topics, and co-edited several volumes, including The Theatre of Justice, with Sophia Papaioannou and Beatrice da Vela (Brill, 2017) and The Ancient Art of Persuasion across Genres and Topics, with Sophia Papaioannou and Kyriakos Demetriou (Brill, 2019).
Michael Edwards, Ph.D., is an Honorary Research Fellow at Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, after being Professor of Classics in the Universities of London, Wales and Roehampton, all in the UK. He was Director of the Institute of Classical Studies, UK, and President of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric. He has published extensively on the Attic orators and is currently preparing an Oxford Classical Text of Isaeus.

Contributors are: Stella Alekou, Dragutin Avramović, Sima Avramović, Anastasia Bakogianni, Jacques A. Bromberg, Jean Christianidis, Styliani Chrysikou, Chrysanthi Demetriou, William J. Dominik, M. Carmen Encinas Reguero, Richard Leo Enos, James M. Farrell, Jakub Filonik, Malcolm Heath, Christian Kock, Domenico Losappio, Johanna Luggin, Michael J. MacDonald, Fiammetta Papi, Alex Petkas, Takis Poulakos, Alberto J. Quiroga Puertas, Hanne Roer, Michalis Sialaros, Stacey Peter, Gerhard Thür, Dietmar Till, Maria S. Youni.

Edition details

• Publisher: BRILL
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004373659
• ISBN 13: 9789004373655
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 700