Persuasion in Ancient Greece

Andrew Scholtz, Instructor

Resources

select a category... Online Biblio Databases Additional Online Resources: Reference, Web Sites Print Bibliography

The following are intended to assist you in your research and to provide you with suggestions for further reading.

NOTES:

Recalls. If there's a holding in our library that you want but someone else, professor, student, whoever, has got it out, DO recall it!! That's done by signing into infoLINK.

Interlibrary Loan. If there's a book or journal article that you want but our library doesn't have it, ASK THE LIBRARY TO "INTERLIBRARY-LOAN" (ILL) IT, i.e., get it from another library — see more at ILLIAD, aka Interlibrary Loan Requests.

Online Bibliographical Databases (listings of books, journal articles,etc.)

• See also below, "Additional Online Resources."

The following are bibliographical search engines accessible via the BU Library. You may need to logon with your PODS info.

• infoLINK - full BU Library catalogue
• L'Année Philologique - dedicated anc. Greek/Roman database
• Project Muse - recent classics, humanities, etc. journal articles (full-text access)
• JSTOR - as the name implies, not the most recent stuff, but an exhaustive archive of classics, humanities, etc. journal articles (full-text access)
• WorldCat - all-purpose biblio (includes some access to full text)

More bibliography can be had from the following sites (no logon, some full-text access):

• Bryn Mawr Classical Review - reviews of books. A keyword search very likely will hook you up with a useful book
• TOCS-IN (Tables of Contents of Journals of Interest to Classicists) - ditto about keyword searches, except for journal articles. Click here for a key to their journal abbreviations
• Diotima Bibliography - Women, Gender, and much else in the ancient world
• Perseus - online primary and secondary texts

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Additonal Online Sources: Reference, Web Sites

Please note that I am extremely picking about acceptable sites. Unacceptable are sites like Wikipedia, where authors don't take responsibility for materials they put out there, or which aren't vetted (reviewed, evaluated) by experts in the field.

(Wikipedia and the like may do us a service, they may often supply good info. Nor can we be confident that supposedly valid sites are always right! But the failure to subject materials to a formal vetting process is like hiring a doctor without checking her or his résumé!)

For criteria by which to know a valid web site, please see the BU Library's "Web Page Checklist."

Or use the following, reliable sources:

Basic Reference (via BU lIbrary)

• Oxford Classical Dictionary
• Brill's New Pauly

Other Useful Sites

• Research resources available from the Center for Hellenic Studies
• DĒMOS: Classical Athenian Democracy
  • Bers and Lanni, "An Introduction to the Athenian Legal System"
    
• Visit Perseus for texts, mythological references, history, art, etc. etc.
• Diotima: Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World, is invaluable as a resource for for cultural history, gender issues, etc. TONS OF BIBLIOGRAPHY, images, etc. etc.
  
• See also our Library's guide to internet research

Print Bibliography: Assorted Books and Articles

Assorted Books and Articles

• Including books on shelf (aka "physical") reserve @ Newcomb Reading room, (just off Library Tower Jazzman's), and available for 2-hour, 1-day, or 2-day check-out. Ask for them by author-title at the Newcomb desk.

Aeschylus. The Oresteia. Trans. Robert Fagles. New York: Penguin Books, 1984. Print.

Aristophanes. Acharnians; Lysistrata; Clouds. Focus Classical Library. Newburyport, Mass.: Focus Pub./R Pullins, 1997. Print.

---. Aristophanes [4 vols.]. Trans. Jeffrey Henderson. Loeb Classical Library 178, 179, 180, 488. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998. Print.

---. The Birds and Other Plays. Trans. Alan H. Sommerstein and David Barrett. Penguin Classics. Harmondsworth and New York: Penguin, 2003. Print.

Austin, J. L. How to Do Things with Words. 2 ed. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1975. Print.

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Balot, Ryan K. Greek Political Thought. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2005. Print.

Buxton, R. G. A. Persuasion in Greek Tragedy: A Study of Peitho. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982. Print.

Connor, W. Robert. The New Politicians of Fifth-Century Athens. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1971. Print.

Dahl, Robert Alan. Democracy and its Critics. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989. Print.

De Luca, Kenneth M. Aristophanes' Male and Female Revolutions: A Reading of Aristophanes' Knights and Assemblywomen. Applications of Political Theory. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2005. Print.

Demosthenes. Demosthenes I. Olynthiacs; Philippics; Minor Public Speeches; Speech against Leptines I–XVII, XX. Trans. J.H. Vince. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, Mass. and London: Harvard Univ. Pr., Heinemann, 1962. Print.

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Diels, Hermann. The Older Sophists: A Complete Translation. Trans. Rosamond Kent Sprague. Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 1990. Print.

Dover, Kenneth James. Greek Popular Morality in the Time of Plato and Aristotle. Indianopolis: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., 1994. Print.

Euripides. The Complete Greek Tragedies, Volume 4: Euripides. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1959. Print.

Faraone, Christopher A. "Aeschylus (Eum. 306) and Attic Judicial Curse Tablets." The Journal of Hellenic Studies (1985): 150-54. Print.

Farrar, Cynthia. The Origins of Democratic Thinking: The Invention of Politics in Classical Athens. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Print.

Finley, M. I. Ancient History: Evidence and Models. 1st American ed. New York: Viking, 1986. Print.

Forde, Steven. The Ambition to Rule: Alcibiades and the Politics of Imperialism in Thucydides. Ithaca, 1989. Print.

Fornara, Charles W., and Loren J. Samons. Athens from Cleisthenes to Pericles. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991. Print.

Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 7th ed. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2009. Print.

Habinek, Thomas N. Ancient Rhetoric and Oratory. Blackwell Introductions to the Classical World. Malden, MA: Blackwell PUB., 2005. Print.

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Hansen, Mogens H. The Athenian Democracy in the Age of Demosthenes: Structure, Principles, and Ideology. Trans. J. A. Cook. Oxford, 1991. Print.

Hesk, Jon. Deception and Democracy in Classical Athens. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Print.

Kagan, Donald. The Archidamian War. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1974. Print.

---. The Fall of the Athenian Empire. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1987. Print.

---. The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian War. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1969. Print.

---. The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian Expedition. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1981. Print.

---. The Peloponnesian War. New York: Penguin Books, 2004. Print.

---. Pericles of Athens and the Birth of Democracy. New York, Toronto: Free Press, Collier Macmillan Canada, Maxwell Macmillan International, 1991. Print.

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---. Thucydides: The Reinvention of History. New York: Viking Adult, 2009. Print.

Kennedy, George Alexander. The Art of Persuasion in Greece. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1963. Print.

Lanni, Adriaan. Law and Justice in the Courts of Classical Athens. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Print.

Loraux, Nicole. The Invention of Athens: The Funeral Oration in the Classical City. Trans. Alan Sheridan. Cambridge, Mass., 1986. Print.

Ludwig, Paul W. Eros and Polis: Desire and Community in Greek Political Theory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Print.

Lysias. Lysias. Trans. S. C. Todd. Oratory of Classical Greece. 1st ed. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2000. Print.

McClure, Laura K. "Clytemnestra's Binding Spell (Ag. 958–974)." The Classical Journal 92.2 (1996): 123–40.

McComiskey, Bruce. Gorgias and the New Sophistic Rhetoric. Rhetorical Philosophy and Theory. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2002. Print.

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McGlew, James F. Citizens on Stage: Comedy and Political Culture in the Athenian Democracy. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002. Print.

---. Tyranny and Political Culture in Ancient Greece. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1993. Print.

Michels, Robert. Political Parties: A Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy. Trans. Translated by Eden and Cedar Paul. New York: Free Press, 1962. Print.

Monoson, Susan Sara. Plato's Democratic Entanglements: Athenian Politics and the Practice of Philosophy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000. Print.

Morgan, Kathryn A., ed. Popular Tyranny: Sovereignty and its Discontents in Ancient Greece. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003. Print.

Nussbaum, Martha Craven. The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Print.

Ober, Josiah. Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989. Print.

• The above can be accessed electronically. Log in may be required.

O'Regan, Daphne Elizabeth. Rhetoric, Comedy, and the Violence of Language in Aristophanes' Clouds. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992. Print.

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Plato. Complete Works. Indianapolis, Ind.: Hackett Pub., 1997. Print.

Plato and Aristotle. Plato Gorgias and Aristotle Rhetoric. Trans. Joe Sachs: Newburyport, Mass.: Focus, 2009. Print.

Plutarch. The Rise and Fall of Athens. Trans. Ian Scott-Kilvert. Marmondsworth, Middlesex and New York: Penguin Books, 1960. Print.

Podlecki, Anthony J. The Political Background of Aeschylean Tragedy. Ann Arbor, 1966. Print.

Poulakos, John. Sophistical Rhetoric in Classical Greece. Studies in Rhetoric/Communication. Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press, 1995. Print.

Roisman, Joseph. The Rhetoric of Manhood: Masculinity in the Attic Orators. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. Print.

Romilly, Jacqueline de. Magic and Rhetoric in Ancient Greece. The Carl Newell Jackson Lectures. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1975. Print.

Rosivach, Vincent J. “The Tyrant in Athenian Democracy.” Quaderni Urbinati Di Cultura Classica 30.3 (1988): 43–57. Print.

Rothwell, Kenneth. Politics and Persuasion in Aristophanes' Eccleziazusae. Supplements to Mnemosyne 111. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1990. Print.

Rusten, Jeffrey S. Thucydides: The Peloponnesian War, Book II. Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Print.

Samons, Loren J. What's Wrong with Democracy? From Athenian Practice to American Worship. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. Print.

Saxonhouse, Arlene W. Athenian Democracy: Modern Mythmakers and Ancient Theorists. Frank M. Covey, Jr. Loyola Lectures in Political Analysis. Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1996. Print.

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Schiappa, Edward. The Beginnings of Rhetorical Theory in Classical Greece. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1999. Print.

Scholtz, Andrew. Concordia Discors: Eros and Dialogue in Classical Athenian Literature. Hellenic Studies. Ed. Gregory Nagy. Washington, D.C.: Center for Hellenic Studies, 2007. Print.

Sommerstein, Alan H. 1989. Aeschylus. Eumenides. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Thucydides. Woodruff, Paul. On Justice, Power, and Human Nature: The Essence of Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War. Trans. Paul Woodruff. Indianapolis: Hackett, 1993. Print.

Weber, Max. Economy and Society: An Outline of Interpretive Sociology. Trans. Ephraim Fischoff et al. 2 vols. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978. Print.

Wohl, Victoria. Love among the Ruins: The Erotics of Democracy in Classical Athens. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2002. Print.

Worthington, Ian, ed. Persuasion: Greek Rhetoric in Action. London and New York: Routledge, 1994. Print.

Yunis, Harvey. Taming Democracy: Models of Political Rhetoric in Classical Athens. Rhetoric & Society. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1996. Print.

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General Reference, Non-Circulating (in reference room just beyond circulation)

Cancik, Hubert, et al., eds. Brill's New Pauly: Encyclopaedia of the Ancient World. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2002. Print.

In its class, it can't be beat — use!!

Simon Hornblower, Antony Spawforth (eds), The Oxford Classical Dictionary, 3 ed. (Oxford University Press: Oxford and New York, 1996).

Excellent basic ref. for all manner of ancient topics.

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