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Ancient declamation-the practice of delivering speeches on the basis of fictitious scenarios-defies easy categorization. It stands at the crossroads of several modern disciplines. It is only within the past few decades that the full complexity of declamation, and the promise inherent in its study, have come to be recognized. This volume, which contains thirteen essays from an international team of scholars, engages with the multidisciplinary nature of declamation, focusing in particular on the various interactions in declamation between rhetoric, literature, law, and ethics. Contributions pursue a range of topics, but also complement each other. Separate essays by Brescia, Lentano, and Lupi explore social roles-their tensions and expectations-as defined through declamation. With similar emphasis on historical circumstances, Quiroga Puertas and Tomassi consider the adaptation of rhetorical material to frame contemporary realities. Schwartz draws attention to the sometimes hazy borderline between declamation and the courtroom. The relationship between laws and declamation, a topic of abiding importance, is examined in studies by Berti, Breij, and Johansson. Also with an eye to the complex interaction between laws and declamation, Pasetti offers a narratological analysis of cases of poisoning. Citti discovers the concept of natural law represented in declamatory material. While looking at a case of extreme cruelty, Huelsenbeck evaluates the nature of declamatory language, emphasizing its use as an integral instrument of performance events. Zinsmaier looks at discourse on the topic of torture in rhetorical and legal contexts.

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In der Abhandlung über Rhetorik entfaltet Aristoteles die Konzeption einer sachorientierten, argumentativen und im Kern an der Dialektik ausgerichteten Redekunst. Rhetorik wird als eine Disziplin begriffen, die nicht auf einen bestimmten Gegenstandsbereich eingeschränkt ist und den Redner in die Lage versetzt, seine Zuhörer mit den Mitteln des argumentativen Beweises zu überzeugen. Das deduktive Argument stellt in der Rhetorik zwar das wichtigste, jedoch nicht das einzige kunstgemäße Überzeugungsmittel dar: Der Redner muß auch fähig sein, sich als glaubwürdig darzustellen und seine Zuhörer in einen geeigneten emotionalen Zustand zu versetzen. Charakterdarstellung und Emotionserregung werden als legitime Formen des Überzeugens untersucht und in den Zusammenhang einer psychologischen, soziologischen und epistemologischen Theorie der Kommunikation eingebettet. Die philosophische Rhetorik nimmt daher eine Mittelstellung ein zwischen der argumentationstheoretisch orientierten Dialektik und der im weiten Sinn politischen Philosophie. Nach der Untersuchung der kunstgemäßen und kunstfremden Überzeugungsmittel in den ersten beiden Büchern wendet sich das dritte Buch der sprachlichen Form, Gestalt und Anordnung der Redeteile zu. Alle Aspekte der Redekunst, von der logischen Tiefenstruktur der Deduktion bis zu Wortwahl und Vortragsweise, werden mit Blick auf das Ziel des Redners analysiert, der Wahrheit mit rhetorischen Mitteln zu ihrem Recht zu verhelfen.

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"Aristotle's Rhetoric is a manual for public speakers written by a philosopher, providing a systematic method for all kinds of speech making, thus offering a useful tool to students of politics and writers of trial speeches. Like the other works of Aristotle that have come down to us, the Rhetoric was not a polished work intended for publication, but a text that could be used for lecture courses"--

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In The Shape of Herodotean Rhetoric , Vasiliki Zali offers a fresh assessment of Herodotus’ rhetorical awareness. Redressing the usual view that considers Thucydides as a significant jump from earlier authors in the rhetorical tradition, Zali attempts to find a place for Herodotus. The volume explores the direct and indirect speeches in Herodotus’ fifth to ninth books, focusing in particular on the ways in which they highlight two major narrative themes: the fragility of Greek unity and the problematic Greco-Persian polarity. Through discussion of case studies and Herodotus’ literary background, Zali brings Herodotus’ sophisticated rhetorical system to life, examines the ways in which this system affects Herodotus’ authority, and demonstrates that Herodotus occupies a crucial place in the development of rhetoric.

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Edward Meredith Cope (1818-1873) was an English scholar of classics who served as Fellow and Tutor at Trinity College, Cambridge. One of the leading Greek specialists of his time, Cope published An Introduction to Aristotle's Rhetoric in 1867. Though now considered a 'standard work', that Introduction was intended as merely the first part of a full critical edition of the Rhetoric, which was left incomplete on Cope's death in 1873. Cope's manuscripts were collected and edited by John Edwin Sandys, and published in this three-volume set in 1877. Cope's analysis represented an important advance in the modern interpretation of this foundational text on the art of persuasion. Volume 1 contains the Greek text of Book 1 together with a commentary on Aristotle's introduction to his topic and his definition of rhetoric and its subdivisions.

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