Violence and Rhetoric in Euripides's Hecuba
1993; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 108; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/462984
ISSN1938-1530
Autores Tópico(s)Rhetoric and Communication Studies
ResumoEuripides's Hecuba contributes to a theory of rhetoric by exploring the problems created for persuasion in a world where those in power are isolated from the pain of others. For Euripides, the threat to rhetoric resides not in active suppression of speech but in an audience's indifference to a speaker. He dramatizes this threat and the personal cost to a rhetor who would challenge the security of the powerful. The result is a tenuous recovery of a rhetoric that can contend with a world governed by force and chance.
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