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  • Allannah Karas
  • 2024-25
  • American Short-Term Research Publication Grants
  • University of Miami (Coral Gables-FL)
  • Doctorate
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  • Language & Literature
  • Classics; Ancient Greek Drama and Rhetoric; Black Classical Reception
  • Ambiguity, Coercion and Rhetoric: Coping With Peitho in Ancient Greece
  • Coral Gables
  • FL
  • United States
  • Allannah Karas' research exposes the psychosocial implications of coercive persuasion as presented in ancient Greek literature and society. Her current project centers on the ambivalent figure of Peitho, an erotic goddess of inducement whose influence spanned politics, oratory, economics, and sexual relations in antiquity. This study offers a new platform for identifying and managing the threats of persuasion in human relations, past and present.