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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, language, style, emotions, gender, argumentation and narrative, politics).
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Sophia Papaioannou 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).
Andreas Serafim, Ph.D. (2013), University College London, is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Classics at the University of Cyprus. He has published the monograph
Attic Oratory and Performance, the volume
The Theatre of Justice (co-editor with Sophia Papaioannou and Beatrice da Vela), and several journal articles and book chapters.
Kyriakos Demetriou, Ph.D. (1993), University College London, is Professor of Political Thought at the University of Cyprus. He has published several studies in classical reception and the historiography of ideas with emphasis on Victorian Britain.
The contributors are: Alessandro Vatri, Andreas N. Michalopoulos, Antonis Tsakmakis, Eleni Volonaki, Gabriel Evangelou, Georgios Vassiliades, Jennifer Devereaux, Jessica Evans, Margot Neger, Maria Kythreotou, Michael Paschalis, Robert Sing, Roger Brock, Stephen Todd, T. Davina McClain, Tazuko Angela van Berkel, Tzu-I Liao.
