## THE ART OF VIOLENCE

## Reapproaching Invective in Ancient Greek Literature

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Andreas Serafim (Northeast Normal University/Institute for the History of Ancient Civilizations) & Rafa ł Toczko (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toru ń )

CLASSICA ET MEDIAEVALIA SUPPLEMENTUM 3

The Art of Violence: Reapproaching Invective in Ancient Greek Literature edited by Andreas Serafim & Rafa ł Toczko © 2025 the authors

## CLASSICA ET MEDIAEVALIA · SUPPLEMENTUM 3

Composition by George Hinge

ISSN 0106-5815

## TABLE OF CONTENTS

| ANDREAS SERAFIM & RAFA Ł TOCZKO                                          |     |
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| Foreword                                                                 | v   |
| DONALD LATEINER                                                          |     |
| Detecting Invective in Herodotos's Histories                             | 1   |
| HANNAM . ROISMAN                                                         |     |
| Invective in Greek Tragedy: A Means of Releasing or Escalating Tensions? | 35  |
| RAQUEL FORNIELES                                                         |     |
| Verbal Irony as Invective in Aristophanes                                | 81  |
| ANDREAS SERAFIM                                                          |     |
| Boundaries and Limitations: The Features of Invective in                 |     |
| Attic Forensic Public and Private Speeches                               | 101 |
| EDWARDM . HARRIS                                                         |     |
| Demosthenes and the Language of Invective                                | 143 |
| PRISCILLA GONTIJO LEITE                                                  |     |
| Hybris in Demosthenes' Against Conon                                     | 169 |
| ALBERTO J . QUIROGA PUERTAS                                              |     |
| All Roads Lead to Psogos: Rhetorical Strategies in Late                  |     |
| Antique Invective                                                        | 189 |
| List of contributors                                                     | 207 |

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