From the ancient Greco-Roman courts and assemblies to today’s political discourse, rhetoric is inherently divisive: it focuses on appealing to core groups and defining oneself against others. This volume, comprising 20 chapters (excluding the Introduction), aims to contribute to a developing appreciation of the capacity of rhetoric to reinforce affiliation or disaffiliation to groups in a wide range of texts and contexts. To this end, the chapters of this volume span a variety of ancient literary genres (i.e. oratory, historical and technical prose, drama and poetry) and themes (i.e. audience-speaker, laughter, emotions, language, gender, identity and religion).

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