Emotion and persuasion in classical antiquity Bashing the establishment Chris Carey Rational and emotional persuasion in Athenian inheritance cases Brenda Griffith Williams Persuasion through emotions in Athenian deliberative oratory Ed Sanders Nostalgia politics and persuasion in Demosthenes letters Guy Westwood Displaying emotional community : the epigraphic evidence Angelos Chaniotis Emotion persuasion and kinship in Thucydides : the plataian debate (3.52 68) and Melian dialogue (5.85 113) Maria Fragoulaki There is no one who does not hate Sulla : persuasion and cultural trauma Alexandra Eckert Greater than logos : Kinaesthetic empathy and mass persuasion in the choruses of Platos laws Lucy Jackson Instruction and example : emotions in Xenophons hipparchicus and Anabasis Jennifer Winter Anger as a mechanism for social control in Imperial Rome Jayne Knight Emotions in Roman historiography : the rhetorical use of tears as a means of persuasion Judith Hagen He was moved but... : Failed appeals to the emotions in Ovids metamorphoses Matthew Johncock Emotional language and formulae of persuasion in Greek papyrus letters Eleanor Dickey Emotions persuasion and gender in Greek erotic curses Irene Salvo Strategies of persuasion in provoked quarrels in Plautus : a pregmatic perspective Federica Iurescia It aint necessarily so : interpreting some poems of Catullus from a discursive psychological point of view Kate Hammond