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Emotion and Persuasion in Xenophon's Cyropaedia

2016; Classical Association of Canada; Volume: 70; Issue: 1-2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1353/phx.2016.0022

1929-4883

Mélina Tamiolaki,

Organic Chemistry Synthesis Methods

In this study I explore the connection between emotion and persuasion in Xenophon's Cyropaedia, by focusing on four emotions: philia (“love”/“friendship”), elpis (“hope”/“expectation”), phthonos (“envy”), and hedone (“pleasure”), underlining the political dimension of the emotions in Xenophon's thought, and inscribing Xenophon's ideas about emotion and persuasion into the political debates of his times.