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.
Chapter
I. Words and the Word: Rhetorical Strategies and Theology
Philip Rousseau: Homily and Exegesis in the Patristic age: comparisons of Purpose and Effect
Nicholas Baker-Brian: Between Testimony and Rumour: Strategies of Invective in Augustine’s De moribus manichaeorum
Augustine, the clever Rhetor (à la De Beausobre)
Catholic Praise and Manichaean Invective
Materialism, Scatology, Pork, and Cruelty
Ilaria L.E. Ramelli: A Rhetorical Device in Evagrius: Allegory, the Bible, and Apokatastasis
Evagrius’s Allegorical Reading of the Bible in His Kephalaia Gnostika
Evagrius’s Astronomical Allegory in the Service of his Doctrine of Apokatastasis and Origen’s Inspiration
Josef Lössl: Profaning and Proscribing. Escalating Rhetorical Violence in Fourth Century Christian Apologetic
II. Sacred and Profane in Late Antique Literature
Laura Miguélez-Cavero: Rhetoric for a Christian Community: the Poems of the Codex Visionum
The Rhetorical Discourse of the Codex Visionum
3. More on the Rhetorics of Biography
4. Other Rhetorical Structures
4.2 Paraphrase and ethopoea
5. Why Poetry and not Only Prose?
6. Conclusions: Rhetoric and Paideia in the Community of the Codex Visionum
Manfred Kraus: Rhetoric or Law? The Role of Law in Late Ancient Greek Rhetorical Exercises
1. Law in the Progymnasmata
2. Libanius, Rhetoric and the Study of Law
3. Roman Law and Local Greek Law Traditions
Aglae Pizzone: When Calasiris got Pregnant: Rhetoric and Storytelling in Heliodorus’ Aethiopica
Subduing Cnemon: the Trap of ἀφήγησις and Calasiris’ Controlling Technique
Emotions on Stage: The Visual Spell of διήγημα
Hidden under the Coils: Calasiris’ διήγημα
Losing Track, Finding the Snake
Cnemon: a Phaedrus in Disguise?
John W. Watt: Themistius and Julian: their Association in Syriac and Arabic Tradition
III. Rhetoric and Political Speeches
David Konstan: Themistius’ on Royal Beauty
Guadalupe Lopetegui: The Panegyrici Latini: Rhetoric in the Service of Imperial Ideology
Eumenius of Autun, the dignity of the rhetor and the ideological function of Rhetoric
Rhetorical devices at the service of an ideological aim: Speeches II and III of the PL
Lieve Van Hoof and Peter Van Nuffelen: ‘No stories for old Men’: Damophilus of Bithynia and Plutarch in Julian’s Misopogon
Cato, Plutarch, and Julian: Amongst Philosophers
Demetrius, Damophilus, and the Antiochenes: Diverted by Trivialities
Julian, Plutarch, and the Over-reader: Layered Meanings
Alberto J. Quiroga Puertas: Libanius’ Horror Silentii
The Pragmatics of Silence
The Purpose of Rhetoric in Late Antiquity
：From Performance to Exegesis
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