«Εἰ δὲ πλέκω τὸν βρόχον, ἀπάνθρωπε, οὐκ ἀφαιρήσεις». The threat of suicide as a way of persuasion and proof of love in Latin and Ancient Greek Epistolography
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In the literary epistolary tradition, the senders of literary letters exploited the threat of suicide as a rhetorical tactic in order to convince for their love feelings to the recipients, who were either the people they desired or people in their close family circle who stood in the way of the senders' happiness. First Ovid (1st century) in Heroides, and to a lesser extent the later Alciphron and Philostratus (2nd-3rd century) chose this way in some of their epistles – concerning people and places that echo the past – so that the writers could convince the reader of their feelings and the intensity of those emotions. The aim of this paper is to make an aggregated list of the literary letters, both Latin and Greek, where this phenomenon is observed and in which verbal ways the threat of suicide is expressed and whether the threat is a sincere expression of despair from unrequited love or only a means of manipulation.
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