Aus dem Inhalt: I Introduction: Rhetoric and Speech Acts as Dramatic Devices Caratteri e Convenzioni Retorico-formali nella Tragedia Attica (Andrea Rodighiero) II Rhetoric and Stage Action in the Electra Tragedies The Rhetoric of Bodies. Persuasion and Stage Action in Aeschylus' Agamemnon and Euripides' Electra (Saskia Schomber) Dynamics of Myth and Space in the »Electra Tragedies« of Aeschylus and Euripides (Martin M. Bauer) III Rhetoric and Mythopoiesis in Euripides' Medea Acting through Words. Euripides' Medea as Seductress (Ronald Blankenborg) The Medea Myth in Euripides. Mythical Innovation and Metapoetry (Vanessa Zetzmann) Euripides' »Selective Amnesia« in Mythical Paradigms (Sabrina Mancuso) IV Rhetorical Characterization and Storytelling in Greek Tragedy Shaping Characters through Rhetoric. Andromache vs Helen in Euripides' Trojan Women (Francesco Moles) The Rhetoric of the Maternal Breast in Greek Tragedy (Antonia Reinke) V Epilogue: Tragic Rhetoric and Literary Criticism The Tragic Myth of Philoctetes in Dio Chrysostom's Oration. Rhetorical Aspects in Literary Criticism (Christos Chatzigiannis)

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Francesco Moles ist Doktorand am Dipartimento die Lettere, Lingue e Arti der Universität Bari.

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Aus dem Inhalt: - Dynamics of Myth and Space in the »Electra tragedies« of Aeschylus and Euripides (Martin M. Bauer) - Acting through words: Euripides' Medea as seductress (Ronald Blankenborg) - Politeness, Rhetoric and Myth in the Agon of Sophocles' Electra (Marco Catrambone) - Twisted Words in Sophocles (Alexandre Johnston) - Andromache and Helen's rheseis in the Trojan Women: Rhetoric, Intertextuality and Intratextuality (Francesco Moles) - Character and rhetorical Conventions in Attic Tragedy (Andrea Rodighiero) - Rhetoric of bodies. A comparison of carriage scenes in Aeschylus' Agamemnon and Euripides' Electra (Saskia Schomber)