Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1353/rht.2023.a900072
Raquel Martínez Ballestrín
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1353/rht.2023.a900071
Pierre Chiron
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1353/rht.2023.a900068
K. Eden
Abstract:Largely disparaged by readers since the eighteenth century but revered before then as a guide to living and dying well, the Tusculan Disputations has throughout its long reception been acknowledged as the most rhetorical of Cicero's dialogues. This essay takes as its point of departure not only this acknowledgment but the principal interlocutor's key comparison between finding the appropriate status or "issue" in a legal case and selecting a circumstantially sensitive strategy when offering consolation for the loss of a loved one. It argues, with the help of Cicero's rhetorical works, that he deploys rhetorical status, with its three questions (conjectural, definitive, and qualitative), to structure the conversation, thereby redressing the perceived failure of Plato's Phaedo to provide adequate guidance for navigating life's vexations, including pain, depression, anxiety, and death.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1353/rht.2023.a900077
Conor O’Brien
Glazebrook overstates the rhetorical and ideological polarisation of prostituted and citizen-status women. She writes that “In oratory, female sex laborers’ associations with citizens disrupt the social fabric, in contrast to citizen kinswomen” (42); the “blame discourse lobbed against [wives and daughters] in Archaic and earlier Classical texts [as “weak links” in the household] is . . . replaced by a discourse of risk centring on the sex laborer” (61). The suggestion of a chronological or generic shift in anxiety or blame away from wives and daughters and onto “sex laborers” does not stand. The accusations made against Alke in Isaios 6, that she has damaged the oikos’s integrity by introducing illegitimate children (with implications for the integrity of genos, phratry, deme, and polis), and exercises undue influence over the oikos by manipulation, are levelled in the same or similar forms against citizen-status women in late Classical forensic speeches: Euphiletus’s wife in Lysias 1; Khrysilla in Andocides 1; arguably Eleios’s wife in the lost counter-argument to Isaios 2. Even in Isaios 6, Euktemon threatens to marry Demokhares’s sister and use her to introduce further illegitimate children. Similarly, Glazebrook’s argument about Neaira culminates in an extended quotation of §§110-111, where Apollodoros asks the jurors how their wives, daughters, and mothers will respond if they say they have acquitted Neaira. Her quotation (80) ends with the imagined fury of the sophronestatai (morally superior) “of the women,” cutting off before Apollodoros warns that acquittal will vindicate the anoētoi (silly, perhaps “susceptible,” [morally] careless). Glazebrook argues that “describing the women with the superlative sōphronestatai . . . differentiates citizen women from Neaira and her daughter”; differential vocabulary “highlights the importance of sexual behaviour to the concept of sōphrosunē and citizenship in this speech”—but Apollodoros’s phrasing allows that jurors may imagine anoētoi among their female kin. When Glazebrook continues the quotation on p. 88, her argument about the wording of the longer passage acknowledges and even relies on imagined anoētoi kin, undermining her earlier reading. Glazebrook explicitly focuses on rhetoric rather than reality: Lysias 4 and Isaios 6, she writes, “offer a rare glimpse into the possible lives of marginal women in the Athenian household and polis” (61)—but she leaves it at that. The book examines “sexual labor” as a rhetorical tool rather than a reality, but the examination is illuminating and useful.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1353/rht.2023.a900069
Gabriela Vlahovici-Jones
Abstract:Madeleine de Scudéry's Les Femmes illustres (1642) comprises fictional speeches by famous women of antiquity and includes coin portraits reproduced from Guillaume Rouillé's Promptuaire des medalles (1553). The portrait illustrations invoke connections between Scudéry's text and the genre of Rouillé's text—the coin image anthology. Comprised of coin portraits accompanied by biographies, anthologies of coin images draw from ancient visual traditions and grant prestige to women's images. As backgrounds for Les femmes illustres, these texts enhance the ethos of Scudéry's heroines because the coin portraits encourage readers to see the women as people worthy of public commemoration. Scudéry's prefatory epistle echoes the visual arguments and guides readers into ways of seeing women speakers as competent rhetors deserving of respect.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1353/rht.2023.a900070
A. Raschieri
Abstract:Tra Seicento e Settecento, Ennodio ha goduto di una particolare attenzione presso i Gesuiti, come dimostrano le edizioni di Schott e Sirmond (1611), la sua inclusione tra le letture consigliate da Possevino (1603-1606) e la discussione sul suo stile in Caussin (1619). Inoltre, il caso del predicatore gesuita Vanalesti (1678-1741) mostra due modi diversi nella ripresa di Ennodio. Da un lato, i suoi estratti furono riutilizzati senza tener conto del contesto originario e in questa forma circolarono tra i diversi autori. Dall'altro lato, la probabile lettura diretta della Dictio 20 di Ennodio diede a Vanalesti lo spunto per innovare uno schema argomentativo consolidato come quello della predica sulla virtù.
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Abstract:In early Greek theoretical descriptions of rhetoric peithō and logos both emerge as crucial elements. However, historical scholarship on rhetoric has generally focused on logos at the cost of any sufficient understanding of peithō. This essay examines peithō within a text that predates the descriptions of rhetoric formulated by Gorgias, Plato, and Aristotle—Aeschylus's Oresteia. I argue that, throughout the speeches of Athena at Eumenides 778-891, Aeschylus displays highly sophisticated argumentative techniques (forms of logos) that anticipate principles outlined in Aristotle's Rhetoric. At the same time, Aeschylus highlights peithō as an essential characteristic of Athena's rhetorical effectiveness. In so doing, Aeschylus prepares the way (in practice) for what Greek sophists and philosophers will later articulate (in theory): that logos and peithō are inseparable and equally important components of effective rhetoric.
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Barbato’s book offers a new analysis of Athenian ideology through the application of a New Institutionalist approach to the city’s democratic institutions as demonstrated by their use of stories from the mythical past. He argues for a middle ground between Marxist and culturalist understand-ings, characterising Athenian ideology as value-neutral, flexible, norma - tive, constructive
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book would be superior to Johnson’s as a mobilization of the history of the arts of memory for the present. And I do think Long’s book is the better one. That said, a longer and deeper history makes for more labor and more liability. Such investments can make it all the more difficult to pivot quickly at the end of a book to “the now” in ways that do justice to both the history and the now. Just so, at the end of Long’s book we encounter some fairly thin optimism about the work of “curation” that goes into “social media” accounts. There are particular platforms that make this possible more than others. (Think of Pinterest, for example; and think of Pinterest as read through the history of rhetoric by Cory Geraths and Michele Kennerly.) But as soon as we mention the image table made possible by Pinterest as a platform and think of it, as I imagine Long would have us do, as a digital memory palace, we recognize the litany of problems that emerge in environments generated by the specific procedures and affordances of other apps. Sure, my Facebook memory palace—construct the phrase, see the problem—is informed by my clicking in some ways, but most of the “curation” here is algorithmic, hidden, and not mine. Will “my” digital memory palace be a memory infrastructure dedicated more to the infinite doom scrolling of a permanent hyperpresent (Twitter, maybe), or will it be an environment that facilitates practices of commonplacing for oneself and other specific or even local communities (Roam Research, perhaps)? Like all the best media critics, we should refuse both blanket optimism and blanket pessimism and attend instead to the articulation of specific exclusions, constraints, and possibilities. The books from Johnson and Long attest to the importance of a long durée approach to memory studies that draws on the history of rhetoric, but they also both demonstrate the degree of difficulty involved in such research.
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