The purpose of rhetoric in late antiquity
Subtitle: from performance to exegesis
By: edited by Alberto J. Quiroga Puertas
Series: Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum -- 72 = -- Studies and texts in antiquity and Christianity -- 72,; Studien und Texte zu Antike und Christentum -- 72.
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Tübingen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 265
ISBN-13: 9783161522697
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Rhetorik; History and criticism; Ancient Rhetoric; Early Christian literature; Greek literature; Latin literature; Latein; Griechisch
Description: In this volume Alberto J. Quiroga Puertas brings together twelve essays that deal with the role and importance of rhetoric in theology, literature and politics in Late Antiquity, more specifically in the fourth century CE. The point of departure of this book is the assumption that religious, cultural and political issues of that period were fought in the rhetorical arena. Thus aspects related to religious orthodoxy and the condemnation of heresies, to spiritual advancement, to the composition of a literary work, or to the ideological objectives of the rhetorical education in Late Antiquity are discussed in this volume. Authors such as Themistius, Libanius, Augustine, Evagrius, Firmicus, or the emperor Julian deployed in their works rhetorical devices and strategies in order to strengthen their arguments. The protean nature of rhetoric facilitated its use as a hermeneutical, persuasive and exegetical tool. --From publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Words and the word : Rhetorical Strategies and Theology.; title: Homily and Exegesis in the Patristic age : comparisons of purpose and effect  -- Philip Rousseau ;; title: Between Testimony and Rumour : Strategies of Invective in Augustine's De moribus manichaeorum  -- Nicholas Baker-Brian ;; title: A Rhetorical Device in Evagrius : Allegory, the Bible, and Apokatastasis  -- Ilaria L.E. Ramelli ;; title: Profaning and Proscribing : Escalating Rhetorical Violence in Fourth Century Christian Apologetic  -- Josef Lössl; title: Sacred and Profane in Late Antique Literature.; title: Rhetoric for a Christian Community : the poems of the Codex Visionum  -- Laura Miguélez-Cavero ;; title: Rhetoric or Law? : The role of law in late Ancient Greek Rhetorical Exercises  -- Manfred Kraus ;; title: When Calasiris got pregnant : Rhetoric and Storytelling in Heliodorus' Aethiopica  -- Aglae Pizzone ;; title: Themistius and Julian : their Association in Syriac and Arabic Tradition  -- John W. Watt; title: Rhetoric and political speeches.; title: Themistius' on royal beauty  -- David Konstan ;; title: The Panegyrici Latini : Rhetoric in the service of imperial ideology  -- Guadalupe Lopetegui ;; title: 'No stories for old Men' : Damophilus of Bithynia and Plutarch in Julian's Misopogon  -- Lieve Van Hoof and Peter Van Nuffelen ;; title: Libanius' Horror Silentii -- Alberto J. Quiroga Puertas-- List of authors-- Index of sources-- Index of authors-- Index of subjects.