Panel 5: Powers of Persuasion

Invited Speakers


Paula a Cunha Correa (University of São Paulo, Brazil): The fable (aînoi, mythoi and lógoi) as a strategy of persuasion in Greek lyric poetry

Andrew Laird: Persuasion as persona: Rhetorics of authorial presence in Virgil's early reception

Accepted Speakers


Tamas Adamik (Eötvös-Loránd-Universität Budapest, Hungary)
Quintilians Ethik

Geoff Bakewell (Creighton University, Nebraska, USA)
The Persuasions of Pelasgus in Aeschylus' Supplices

Andrea Balbo (Università del Piemonte orientale "Amedeo Avogadro", Italia) / Ermanno Malaspina (Università di Torino, Italia)
Retorica del potere in alcuni scrittori latini di I-II secolo d.C.

Oscar Bernaus (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Deutschland)
"Audiatur episcopus iubens…" (Serm. 196). A pragmalinguistical approach to Augustine’s Sermones

Victor Bers (Yale University, USA)
Heterogeneous Mass Audience and Heterogeneous Mass Voice

John Paul Christy (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Nekuia, Inside and Out: Odysseus's Exemplary Underworld

Maria Cecília de Miranda Nogueira Coelho (University of São Paulo, Brasil)
Rhetoric and Metaphysics: Gorgias according to Sextus Empiricus

Stefano Dentice di Accadia (Universität zu Köln, Deutschland)
Simulations- und Anspielungstechniken in der griechischen Literatur

Dragana Dimitrijević (University of Belgrade, Serbia)
Otium as a Tool of Persuasion in Cicero's Oratory

Ana Elaković-Nenadović (University of Belgrade, Serbia)
The Powers of Persuasion in Aeschines' Oratory

María del Carmen Encinas Reguero (FECYT, España / LMU München, Deutschland)
Das Motiv des Lernens bei Sophokles

Johannes Engels (Universität zu Köln, Deutschland)
Epitaphios Logos - Zu den offiziellen Reden auf gefallene Mitbürger in der athenischen Demokratie am Beispiel der beiden Reden des Demosthenes und des Hypereides

Michael Erler (Universität Würzburg, Deutschland)
Besinge das Kind in uns? (Elias) - Philosopische Peitho und pagan-christliche Paideia

Maria do Céu Fialho (Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal)
The Rhetoric of Suffering in Sophocles' Philoctetes and Oedipus at Colonus

Violeta Gerjikova (Sofia University, Bulgaria)
Ancient Greek Cultural Thinking and the Speeches of Isocrates

Isabel Gómez Santamaría (Universidad de Salamanca, España)
Lealtad cívica y literatura de la llegada al poder: los panegíricos latinos

Justina Gregory (Smith College, Northampton, USA)
Persuasion in the Prologue of Philoktetes

Rosalia G. Hatzilambrou (Academy of Athens, Greece)
The Persuasive Power of the εἰκός-Argument: the Case of Isaeus III.

Svetlana Hautala (Università degli Studi di Siena, Italia)
Persuasione sull'efficacia dei farmaci nel "De teriaca ad Pisonem" di Galeno

Grammatiki Karla (National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece)
Die Macht des Exemplums: Alexander der Große in den Reden des Libanios

Annemaré Kotzé (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)
Protreptic in Late Antiquity

Daniel R. N. Lopes (Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil)
The Failure of Socrates' Discourse in Plato's Gorgias

María José Martín Velasco (University of Santiago de Compostela, España)
The debate on equity and justice in the characters of Euripides' Alcestis

Eliana Amarante de Mendonça Mendes (Bundesuniversität Minas Gerais, Brasilien)
Mode und Rhetorik

Anna A. Novokhatko (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Deutschland)
Palm and Fist, or on the metaphorical use of πλατύς and στρογγύλος as rhetorical criteria

Susana Marques Pereira (Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal)
Dream and persuasion in Greek epic

Rene Pfeilschifter (Technische Universität Dresden, Deutschland)
Putting Down the Diadem: The Late Antique Emperor's Dependence on Persuading the People

Eva Picciotto (Università degli Studi di Palermo, Italia)
Will manipulation: deception and seduction in the Iliad

Milagros Quijada (Universität des Baskenlandes, España)
Peithein kai terpein in den Hiketiden von Euripides, vv. 180-183

Giuliana Ragusa (Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil)
Aphrodite and erotic persuasion in early Greek melic: the case of Sappho (Fr. 1 Voigt) and Ibycus (Fr. 288 Davies)

Marilyn B. Skinner (University of Arizona, USA)
Dives effuse: The Woman of Property in Cicero's pro Caelio

Elena Torregaray Pagola (University of Basque Country, España)
To persuade and to coerce in Roman diplomacy

Konrad Vössing (Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Deutschland)
Rhetorische Deklamationen und gesellschaftlicher Konflikt in der Kaiserzeit

Chris Whitton (Emmanuel College, Cambridge, United Kingdom)
The art of persuasion in Pliny, Epistles 8.14

Vasiliki Zali (University College London, United Kingdom)
Manipulating audiences: the rhetoric of deception in Herodotus' Histories